Zubin Austin

Faculty fellow

Professor and Murray Koffler Research Chair, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.

Zubin Austin BScPhm MBA MISc PhD FCAHS is Professor and Murray Koffler Research Chair at the Faculty. His research focuses on the professional and personal development of the health workforce. He has published over 250 peer reviewed manuscripts and authored 5 reference textbooks. In 2017, in recognition of the global impact of his work, he was installed as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest honours for health services researchers in Canada. He is also the only University of Toronto professor ever to have received the President’s Teaching Award for sustained excellence as an educator and the President’s Research Impact Award for the societal significance of his work. In 2024, he was named a Faculty Fellow of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, exploring the regulation and impact of artificial intelligence technologies in the work of health care professionals. Recently, he has begun work on exploring the regulatory dimensions of climate-conscious pharmacy practice and has received funding for this work through the Network for Improving Health Systems (NIHS). He has been voted Professor of the Year by students on 20 separate occasions.