Roojin Habibi

Roojin Habibi is a research fellow of the Global Strategy Lab at York University, a fellow of the Canadian International Council, and a lecturer at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research examines how laws, norms and international relations shape global health and the realization of health-related human rights. She is the recipient of several research awards and distinctions, including the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Award. 

Having worked across government, nongovernmental and international organizations, Roojin takes a multisectoral and collaborative approach to international law scholarship. Her interdisciplinary research is published across journals of public health and medicine, scholarly legal and social science journals, commissioned reports, foundational textbooks and casebooks of law, as well as public-facing news and media outlets. In 2019, she was lead author and rapporteur of a consensus-based interpretation of Article 43 of the 2005 International Health Regulations (‘the Stellenbosch Consensus Statement on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks’). This consensus statement, developed in collaboration with fifteen eminent global health law scholars from around the world, provided a first-of-its-kind consolidation of the legal parameters governing the application of cross-border health measures in response to public health risks. Following this, the ‘Stellenbosch Consensus’ served as the catalyst for a permanent gobal health law research collaborative known as the “Global Health Law Consortium,” which Roojin has centrally helped build since 2020.

Roojin is a member of Canada’s Ontario Bar, and holds a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Ottawa's French Common Law program, a specialization in transnational law from the University of Geneva, and a Master’s of Science in Global Health from McMaster University. She regularly teaches and advises students in graduate programs ranging from law and the social sciences to public health and medicine, and is fluent in English, French and Farsi.