Professor
College of Community and Global Health
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
771 McDermot Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0W2
Phone: 204-294-7963
Email: ties.boerma@umanitoba.ca
Ties Boerma, MD, PhD
Dr. Ties Boerma focuses on measuring and monitoring progress toward the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to health, including universal health coverage. This includes conducting longitudinal research in a health and demographic surveillance study in northwest Tanzania. Additionally, Dr. Boerma generates evidence to strengthen reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health programs in low and middle-income countries. His work also assesses the death toll caused by armed conflict, disasters (such as famines, epidemics, and environmental crises), and the political and scientific dimensions of these issues.
Research themes
- Measurement and monitoring of universal health coverage
- Mortality in armed conflicts and disasters
- Reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health
Research affiliations and groups
Biography
Dr. Ties Boerma is a professor in the College of Community and Global Health at the University of Manitoba and holds the Canada Research Chair in Population and Global Health at the Institute for Global Public Health. He is also the director of Countdown to 2030 for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.
With over 35 years of experience in global public health, Dr. Boerma has worked at national and district levels in Africa and has led health programs with the Demographic and Health Surveys. He has served as an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and as a senior leader at the World Health Organization (WHO), where he directed the WHO’s work on health statistics, information, and evidence for 14 years.
Dr. Boerma has authored numerous publications on HIV, reproductive health, maternal and child health, health information systems, and health statistics, featured in epidemiological, demographic, and public health journals.
He holds a medical degree from the University of Groningen, a Master of Science in Medical Demography from the same institution, and a PhD in Medical Demography from the University of Amsterdam.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Medical Demography, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1996)
Master of Science in Medical Demography, State University, Groningen, the Netherlands (1983)
Doctor of Medicine (MD), State University, Groningen, the Netherlands (1982)
Contact us
College of Community and Global Health
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Room S113 - 750 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 Canada
204-789-3473