Myles Leslie

Position: Assistant Professor

Institution: University of Calgary – Cumming School of Medicine, and School of Public Policy

Role with AMR - One Health Consortium: Work Package Lead and Principal Investigator

Dr. Myles Leslie is the Associate Director of Research at the School of Public Policy in the University of Calgary. He is a health services and one-health policy researcher with an appointment in the Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences.  His work focuses on applying the principles of engagement and involvement to re-world challenges in the policy and practice of healthcare.  Dr. Leslie’s primary substantive interest is in primary care and the technology, policy, organizational, and clinical level reforms that are needed to support the delivery of high quality care and reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR).  He brings extensive international experience in ethnography and related qualitative methods to his research, and an interest in the origins and challenges of trust in the creation and implementation of policy to his teaching.  Dr. Leslie joined the University of Calgary faculty in the autumn of 2016, arriving from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He was trained at the Universities of Toronto and Leicester where he held Canada Graduate and Trudeau Foundation Scholarships, and a post-doctoral position in patient safety and quality.

Key Areas of Expertise: Quality and Safety, Context, Culture, Qualitative Research, Engagement, Co-Design, Antimicrobial Resistance