School of Health Administration

Dalhousie University

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Christopher Simms

Selected Publications

Chris Simms (2018) Biocitizenship and forced removals Lancet link
Chris Simms (2018) Pandemic response: fear is inevitable, panic is optional Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2018) The British and Canadian health systems at 70 and 60 BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2018) CDC’s word ban—the placement of politics over science is part of a larger pattern BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2018) Brexit: acknowledging error Medicus Mundi Schweiz Link
Chris Simms (2017) The precarity of being indigenous: the case of Canada Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2017) Deregulation amid fires and hurricanes BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Confederates and Canadian colonialists—imprisoned by the past BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) The World Bank in Kagame’s Rwanda Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2017) Brexit and the vengeance of unintended consequences BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Canada at 150—the racialization of healthcare BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Russian dolls—revealing Trump’s diminution of the common good BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Explaining Trumpcare: the appalling appeal Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2017) We need to prioritise cyber security in this age of global risks BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Trump vs Obamacare—100 days in BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Trump and the role of data driven resistance in global health; BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2017) Global Health and Mr. Trumps "New World Order". Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2017) The Global Risk Report 2016 Who Listened? BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2016) Path dependency - Trumy, Brexit, and the Future Europe" BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2016) "The rise of walls and the decline of values: from Trump to Calais" Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2016) "Canada's new government: Climate change, 'regulatory capture' and 'cathedral thinking'" BMJ LINK
Chris Simms (2016) The Iraq war, Chilcot, and cherry picking data: How to find a way forward? BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2016) Canada's Fort McMurray fire: mitigating global risks Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2016) Global risks and consilience: mapping a way forward Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2016) Global health and Brexit—choosing when anxious BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2016) "Deracination-Canada's aboriginal suicides" BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2016) "Canada’s First Nations: The social and political determinants of health" BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2016) "Undoing the undoing of Canada as global health citizen" Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2016) "Canada needs a global health strategy", Border Crossing, the Diplomat Magazine, the Hague, Netherlands, April 2016 http://www.diplomatmagazine.nl/2016-issues/
Chris Simms (2015) "Human Rights at the World Bank: inside out" Lancet Link
Chris Simms: (2015) Health and human rights in Canada: a global concern Lancet Link
Chris Simms: (2015) "Global health and altruism—the case of Canada and its treatment of refugees" BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2015) Canada's murdered and missing aboriginals BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2014) "What can Senegal teach the West about dealing with Ebola, The BMJ, November 20, 2014 BMJ Link
Chris Simms (2014) "An overlooked WWI legacy: maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa", Lancet, Global Health, November 11, 2014 Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2015) "Aboriginal health and the rise of racism in Canada" Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2014) "A rising tide: the case against Canada as world citizen", The Lancet Global Health, Volume 2 May 2014 e264 Lancet Link
Chris Simms (2014) "World Bank: can it learn from Silicon Valley?", Lancet Global Health, November 2014 Vol 2, Issiue 11 Page
Chris Simms (2014) "Sub-Saharan Africa's HIV pandemic". American Psychologist, Volume 69 (1), Jan 2014, 94-95, Washington DC
Chris Simms (2014) "Asian Development Bank failing in its Mission to Protect the Poor" March 3, 2014, The Guardian, United Kingdom Guardian Link
Chris Simms (2013) "Voice: the importance of diversity in healthcare", International Journal of Clinical Practice, Volume 67
Chris Simms (2013) "The Constant Gardener", Bulletin of Medicus Mundi, Switzerland No. 127
Chris Simms (2012) "World Bank reforms must embrace racial equality and accountability", The Guardian, Transforming Institutions Hub, November 27, 2012 (including responses) Guardian Link
Chris Simms (2012) "How Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis influenced the rise of global health", Bulletin of Medicus Mundi, Switzerland No. 127
Chris Simms (2012) "Inequalities in World Bank Staffing" The Lancet, Volime 380, Issue 9850, 13 October 2012
Chris Simms (2012) "Global Health, Global Responsibilities" International Journal of Clinical Practice, Volume 66 Issue 4 (pages 333-336) April 2012
Chris Simms (2012) "From International Health to Global Health: How Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis influenced the rise of global health" Bulletin of Medicus Mundi Switzerland No.123, March 2012
Persaud, D. D, Lepnurm, R., Dobson, R., & Simms, C. (2011). Dynamic Learning Culture and the Sustainabilty of Health Care Systems. The Ashbridge International Research Conference. Ashbridge, England, July, 2011
Chris Simms (2010) International Journal of Clinical Practice: Health reform in Canada, Volume 64, Issue 4 (p 426-428)
Chris Simms (2010) International Journal of Clinical Practice: Health reform in Canada, Volume 64, Issue 4 (p 426-428)
Chris Simms, D.D. Persaud (2009) Global Health and Local Poverty: Rich Countries' Response to Vulnerable Populations. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 100 (3): 176-179. Ottawa, May-June 2009.
Chris Simms and Mike Rowson, (2003) "Reassessment of health effects of the Indonesian economic crisis: donors versus the data." The Lancet Vol. 361, April 19th 2003 Pages 1382-1385.
Chris Simms "The HIV/AIDS Crisis and the Right to Health" International Journal of Clinical Practice - London, Volume 65 (3)
Chris Simms (2009) "International policy and health: lessons from Zambia, Bulletin of Medicus Mundi", No. 113/11.2009 Switzerland
Chris Simms (2009) Economic Crisis and Mortality, International Journal of Clinical Practice, Volume 63, Issue 8, August 2009
Chris Simms, D.D. Persaud (2009) "Global Health and Local Poverty: Rich Countries' Response to Vulnerable Populations". Canadian Journal of Public Health, 100 (3): 176-179. Ottawa, May-June 2009.
Chris Simms, (2009) "Inequalities in the American healthcare system", The Lancet, April 11, 2009, Volume 373, Number 9671
Chris Simms (2009) Review, "The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008–2009", New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 360: 1265, March 19 2009
Chris Simms and Mike Rowson (2009) "Effect of the financial crisis and rescue plan on ordinary Americans", The Lancet, January 10, 2009, Vol. 373 No. 9658 pp 123-124
Mike Rowson, Chris Simms and David McCoy, (2008) Chapter The World Bank and International Monetary Fund? Global Health Watch, Zed Books, London, October 2008
Chris Simms (2008) "The HIV epidemic: squeezing out the African voice", (Response to Dr. Lars O. Kallings UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Journal of Internal Medicine, Volume 264, Issue 5, October 8, 2008, 504-08
Chris Simms (2008) "HIV myths should not be resuscitated?" The Lancet, March 2008, Volume 371, No. 9618, 1070-1.
Chris Simms (2008) "Good Governance at the World Bank", The Lancet 371, Number 9608, 19 January, 2008
Chris Simms (2007) "The World Bank and sub-Saharan Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis." Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 2007, 176: 1728-1739.
Chris Simms, "Institutional weakness of the World Bank", The Lancet, July 11, 2006
Chris Simms, "Donor, lender and research agencies response to the HIV crisis" Eds. EJ Beck, N Mays, A Whiteside, JM Zuniga, The HIV Pandemic: global and local implications, Oxford University Press 2006
Suriadi Gunawan, Soewarta Kosen, Chris Simms, "Indonesia", Eds., EJ Beck, N Mays, A Whiteside, JM Zuniga, The HIV Pandemic: global and local implications, Oxford University Press 2006
Chris Simms, P Salif Sow and A Si, , "Senegal" in Eds., EJ Beck, N Mays, A Whiteside, JM Zuniga, The HIV Pandemic: global and local implications, Oxford University Press 2006
Chris Simms "Low Credit: a report on the World Bank's response to HIV/AIDS in developing countries", ActionAid International, London, 2004 a report prepared for presentation at the Spring Meetings World Bank 2004.
Chris Simms, Mike Rowson and Siobhan Peattie, "TheBitterestPill of All: the collapse of Africa's health systems SCF/Medact Briefing" Report, London, October 2001
Chris Simms, "Donor Response to Zambia's Childhood Mortality Crisis" Institute of Development Studies (IDS), IDS Working Paper Series, No 121, 2000
Chris Simms, John Milimo and Gerry Bloom, (1998) "The Reasons for the Rise in Under-five Mortality in Zambia in the 1980s" Institute of Development Studies (IDS), IDS Working Paper Series, No 76, 1998
Chris Simms, "Review of trends in Official Development Assistance to Sri Lanka 1997-2002: from project and program support to 'up-streaming'" for CIDA.
Chris Simms "Assessment of psychosocial needs in the North and East of Sri Lanka arising from ethnic conflict using a 'livelihoods approach'" for CIDA.

D.D. Persaud and Chris Simms, (2012) Designing Performance Measurement Systems for Accountability and Quality Improvement Canadian College of Health Leaders 2012 National Health Leadership Conference, Halifax N.S. June, 2012
Persaud, D.D, Lepnurm, R., Dobson, R., & Simms, C. (2011). Dynamic Learning Culture and the Sustainability of Health Care Systems. The Ashridge International Research Conference. Ashridge, England, July, 2011
Chris Simms, 2008 Global health and local poverty: rich countries responses to vulnerable populations? (September, 2008) Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University.
Chris Simms (2008) Does the dominance of one voice matter to global health??, Global Development Seminar Series, International Development Studies LSC 244, March 13th 2008
Chris Simms (2008) The First Post-Modern Epidemic?, Global Health Conference, Global Health Initiative, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper BLG, May 17th, 2008
“The World Bank’s response to the HIV crisis in SSA”, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, March 13th 2007 and; Global Development Seminar Series, International Development Studies, Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University, March 22, 2007.
“The influence of adjustment and health sector reform policies on changes in childhood survival in nine countries in SSA in the 1990s”, at Equinet Conference (Regional Conference on Equity in Health in Southern Africa) Broederstroom, South Africa, September 13-15, 2000
"The reasons for the rise in under-five morality in Zambia in the 1980s and 1990s", at Institute of Child Health, London, 1998
Changing levels of childhood morbidity and access to effective health care in government and mission health facilities in Zambia" at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, 1997
"Trends in common childhood illnesses, HIV and health service provision in Zambia" paper presented at University of Liverpool, with support from Dfid, U.K, 1996
Chris Simms, (2007). The Relationship between increased levels of funding, improved local capacities to deliver goods and services, and reductions in adult HIV prevalence rates in six countries in Sub-Saharan Afica. Paper presented at the Canadian Public Health Association 2007, Annual Conference, Ottawa.