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Jaime Llambias-Wolff

S708 Ross Building
x 33298
jlwolff@yorku.ca
Jaime Llambias-Wolff

Education

B.A. Law University of Chile. 1972
MA Sociology , McGill University, Montreal, 1977
Ph.D. Sociology, & Political Economy, Université de Montreal, 1985
Ph.D. (C) Law , Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada

Research Interests

International health, Third World and Latin America, development studies, political economy, multicultural issues and legal theory

I was appointed as Associate Professor at the Division of Social Science at YORK University, in 1991 (Health & Society Program), having previously taught at the University of Montreal, the University of Moncton and the University of Quebec in Montreal. On several occasions I have been Invited Professor at the Business School of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaíso, Chile, the International MBA at the Universidad de Santiago , Chile and the Chilean Diplomatic Academy. I was a York University Senator between 2002 and 2005.

In non academic but research-related areas I was the director general of the Quebec Council for International Development (1985-1989), consultant for the Quebec Government and the Canadian International Development Agency. (1989-1995), vice-president of the Council for International Relations in Montreal and a former member of the Consultant Committee for Ethnical Relations at the Montreal Urban Community as well as a former member of the board and the executive committee of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation. In 1988 I ran as NDP candidate in the federal election. I have a regular-weekly TV Interview Programme on International Issues on Chile’s Channel 9 (Quintavision-VTR).

Selected Publications

BOOKS

LLAMBIAS-WOLFF, J., Notre exil pour parler: les Chiliens au Québec, Montréal, Ed.Fides,1988.

LLAMBIAS-WOLFF, J. & LLAMBIAS-WOLFF, I. ¿Con que sueñas tu? (poetry), Ed.d'Orphée, Montréal, 1983.

LLAMBIAS-WOLFF, BOZZINI, RENAUD, GAUCHER, Eds. Médecine et société : les années 80, Editions cooperatives Albert St-Martin, 1988.

Articles

"Los desafíos de la salud; un debate para el futuro", Revista Cubana de Salud Publica, La Habana, Cuba, 2003.

"Los desafíos inconclusos de la salud para un mundo globalizado", Salud 2000,, Spain, No 91, April 2003.

"Patrones cambiantes en las relaciones internacionales", Diplomacia, Santiago, 1999.

"Las enfermedades re‑emergentes y el desarrollo", Revista Salud-Problema, Mexico, 1998.

"Reflexiones sobre el desarrollo, la salud y la modernidad una época de transformaciones globales", Cuadernos Médico Sociales, Santiago, 1997.

"The Voluntary Repatriation of Chilean Exiles", International Migration, Vol. XXXI, No 4, 1993.

"Dette externe et souveraineté politique en Amérique latine", Revue Etudes Internationales, vol. XVII, No 2, June, 1986.

"Etre réfugié: une conscience de présent, une responsabilité dans l'avenir", Canadian Ethnic Studies, XVIII No 2, 1986.

Newspapers contributions in: El Mercurio de Valparaíso, El Mercurio, El Diario Financiero, El Expreso, Las Ultimas Noticias, El Mercurio, La Epoca, Le Devoir, La Presse, Cauce and Hoy.