Aria Ilyad Ahmad is a Global Health Foresighting Fellow at York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, where he is Secretariat of the Disaster and Health Emergency Working Group. Aria is a faculty member of the University of Toronto’s Global Health Education Initiative, Fellow at the Center for Global Health Security and Diplomacy, and on the Board of the Prescription Justice Institute. He has testified before the Canadian Senate on pharmaceutical policy issues, and consulted for the World Health Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières and Public Health Ontario.