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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
'''Trevor Hancock''' was the first leader of the [[Green Party of Canada]] and a family physician.<ref name="THancock01">{{cite web |last1=Hancock |first1=Trevor |title=About Trevor Hancock |url=https://trevorhancock.org/about/ |website=Dr. Trevor Hancock - Healthy people, healthy communities, a healthy planet |accessdate=16 December 2019 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20191216015740/https://trevorhancock.org/about/ |archivedate=16 December 2019 |language=en |date=27 February 2016}}</ref> Under his leadership, the party ran 60 candidates in the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 federal election]].<ref>[https://greenparty.ca/party/history The Green Party of Canada - Our History]</ref> 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]].<ref>[https://www.uvic.ca/research/groups/cphfri/people/academics/index.php University of Victoria Core Public Functions Health Research Initiative - Academics]</ref> He obtained his degree in medicine at the [[University of London]] and his degree in health science at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref>[https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/trevor-hancock/ Profile - Trevor Hancock]</ref> He also consults with the [[World Health Organization]].<ref name="THancock01"/>  Together with [[Leonard Duhl|Dr. Leonard Duhl]], he created the [[Alliance for Healthy Cities|Healthy Cities]] project that looks at [[Environmentalism|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]].

==Select Bibliography==
*  [[Sylvia Noble Tesh|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.

== See also ==
* [[Alliance for Healthy Cities]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://trevorhancock.org/}}

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