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Research
Latest papers
The World Health Organization and the Struggle to Coordinate Global Health Research.
Minerva · 2026 · first author
Chronic disease, social medicine, and the Lalonde Report.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025 · first author
A history of the Antisemitic 1934 Montreal Hospital Strike.
Canadian medical education journal · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $121,460
The history and sociology of a transnational expert domain: Health Policy and Systems Research
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $72,895
From International to Global Health, 1973 to the Present: a historical and anthropological study
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
A comparative history of chronic disease in the 20th century
CIHR · 2009 · Nominated PI
15 publications.
The World Health Organization and the Struggle to Coordinate Global Health Research.
Weisz G
Chronic disease, social medicine, and the Lalonde Report.
Weisz G
A history of the Antisemitic 1934 Montreal Hospital Strike.
Groszman L, Weisz G
Investigating the citing communities around three leading health-system frameworks.
Weisz G, Harper J
The World Health Organization and the global standardization of medical training, a history.
Weisz G, Nannestad B
What Happened to the Global Forum for Health Research?
Weisz G
Leprosy: An Early Exemplar of the Transformation of 20th Century American Medicine.
Weisz G
Medical Genetics at McGill: The History of a Pioneering Research Group.
Canning C, Weisz G, Tone A, Cambrosio A
Historical reflections on medical travel.
Weisz G
Epidemiology and health care reform: the National Health Survey of 1935-1936.
Weisz G
The history and sociology of a transnational expert domain: Health Policy and Systems Research
Principal investigators: Weisz, George
Keywords: health systems research; global health; world health organization; alliance for health policy and systems research; health systems global
From International to Global Health, 1973 to the Present: a historical and anthropological study
Principal investigators: Weisz, George
Keywords: (1) global health; (2) international health; (3) infectious disease; (4) noncommunicable disease
A comparative history of chronic disease in the 20th century
Principal investigators: Weisz, George
Keywords: Aging; Chronic Disease; Invalidity; Policy; Poverty; Welfare
Reinventing chronic disease in the 20th century
Principal investigators: Weisz, George
Keywords: chronic disease; disability; infirmity; epidemiology; geriatrics; welfare
Medical history in comparative perspective
Principal investigators: Weisz, George
Keywords: medicine; specialization; professionalization; thermalism; mineral waters; hydrology; spas
Pratiques de prescription des médecins et évolution de la pharmacothérapie à Montréal, 1859-1907
Principal investigators: Collin, Johanne
Keywords: Aspects sociaux; prescription; consommation; médicaments; histoire; thérapeutique; industrie pharmaceutique
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating: 14 shared papers
- Alberto Cambrosio and George Weisz: 3 shared papers
- Thomas Schlich and Alberto Cambrosio: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Schlich and Peter Keating: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Schlich and George Weisz: 2 shared papers
- Peter Keating and George Weisz: 2 shared papers
- History of Medicine
- Other Sociology
- Social Studies of Medicine
- Other
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