Over the past 30 years, Dr Cortinois has worked as a journalist, researcher, educator, and manager of health-related interventions on four continents, mainly in the global south. He has completed a Masters of Public Health with a global health emphasis at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK, and a PhD from the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, at the University of Toronto. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, cross appointed between the Human Biology Program, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in migration and health, global health, and the polycrisis. His research interests focus on the impact of the global economic regime and the polycrisis on displacement and health. He is also interested in issues of quality of life and scholarship in the context of neoliberal academia.