Halla Thorsteinsdóttir
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
Last Contribution:
A Global Approach to Biotech
Contributor Biography
Dr. Thorsteinsdóttir is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and a member of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network. She completed her doctoral studies in Science and Technology Policy in 1999 at Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
Prior to that, she completed a Master’s in Development Economics from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, as well as a Master’s in psychology from the same university. Her research is focused on health biotechnology innovation in developing countries. Her current projects examine collaboration in health biotechnology – both between Canada and developing countries (North-South collaboration) and amongst developing countries (South-South collaboration) – as well as regenerative medicine innovation systems in several emerging economies.
She is the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Genetics Maud Menten New Principal Investigator Prize (2005-2006), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, New Principal Investigator Award (2007-2012).
