Michael Widener

Michael J. Widener is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto - St. George, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Transportation and Health. Professor Widener also holds a cross-appointment in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Professor Widener is a health geographer whose research focuses on how public health affects, and is affected by, movement, urban systems, family dynamics, and social/spatial structures. Outside of UofT, Professor Widener is co-Editor in Chief of the journal Health & Place, was selected as a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers, serves as a member of CIHR’s College of Reviewers, co-leads the Social and Health Factors Cluster of the Network of European Communication & Transportation Activity Researchers and sits on the editorial boards of Geographical Analysis, Information Geography, and Discover Social Science and Health.