Trevor Hancock was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada and a family physician.^[1] Under his leadership, the party ran 60 candidates in the 1984 federal election.^[2] He is a public health physician, and a retired professor and senior scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria.^[3] He obtained his degree in medicine at the University of London and his degree in health science at the University of Toronto.^[4] He also consults with the World Health Organization.^[1] Together with Dr. Leonard Duhl, he created the Healthy Cities project that looks at environmental aspects of sustainable urban development as a determinant of health. In 2005, Hancock was also instrumental in initiating BC Healthy Communities – a provincial initiative focused on building capacity for healthy municipal governance.

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• Tesh, Sylvia Noble, Carolyn Tuohy, Tom Christoffel, Trevor Hancock, Judy Norsigian, Elena Nightingale, and Leon Robertson. "The meaning of healthy public policy." Health Promotion International 2, no. 3 (1987): 257–262. volume 2, issue 3 (1987). 1987. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/2.3.257.