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Raphael Lencucha

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Raphael Lencucha
Contact Information
Address: 

Building:ÌýHosmer House, 3630 prom Sir-William-Osler

Mailing Address:Ìý3630 prom Sir-William-Osler, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y5

Phone: 
514 396 2704
Fax number: 
(514) 398-6360
Email address: 
raphael.lencucha [at] mcgill.ca
Position: 
Associate Professor
Office: 
H-300B
Degree(s): 

BScKin, BScOT, PhD (Health Promotion), Postdoc (Health Governance and Policy)

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Teaching areas: 

POTH-609: Qualitative Research (Fall)

POTH-618: Public Policy and Knowledge Translation (Fall)

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Area(s): 
Global Health
Biography: 

Raphael Lencucha is an Associate Professor at ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University in Montreal Canada. The thrust of his research has been to understand how intersectoral issues impact the pursuit of health policy with an emphasis on tobacco governance, intersectoral policy, and global health policy. Since 2012 he has been working with colleagues to investigate the economic livelihoods of tobacco farmers and the political economy of alternatives to tobacco growing in countries around the world. He has worked closely with Intergovernmental Organizations (UNDP, WHO) and most recently has been involved in developing the toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that deals with alternatives to tobacco growing. Raphael teaches a cross-disciplinary public policy and qualitative research in the graduate program at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. He also serves as a faculty advisor to the Interprofessional Global Health Course, which is a student-led no-credit course offered within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ Raphael is passionate about education, ideas, and the pursuit of a more unified world.

Selected publications: 

Lencucha, R. (2024) Transforming global health: Decoloniality and the human condition. BMJ Global Health.

Lencucha, R., Ralston, R., Patanavanich, R., & Vichit-Vadakan, N. (2024) Addressing tobacco industry influence in tobacco growing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

Lencucha, R., Kulenova, A.*, & Thow, A.M. (2023). Framing policy goals in the Sustainable Development Goals: Hierarchy, balance, or transformation? Globalization & Health.

Ralston, R., Carlini, G., Johns, P., Lencucha, R., Radvany, R., Shah, D., & Collin, J. (2023) Corporate interests and the UN Plastic Pollution Treaty: Neglecting lessons from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control? The Lancet.

Lencucha, R., & Neupane, S. (2022). The use, misuse, and overuse of the ‘Low- and Middle-Income Countries’ category. BMJ Global Health.

Lencucha, R., & Thow, AM (2020). Intersectoral policy on industries that produce unhealthy commodities: governing in a new era of the global economy? BMJ Global Health. e002246.

Gomez-Carillo, A., Lencucha, R., Faregh, N., Veissiere, S., & Kirmayer, L. (2020). Engaging Culture and Context in mhGAP Implementation: Fostering Reflexive Deliberation in Practice. BMJ Global Health.

Lencucha, R., & Thow, A-M. (2019). How Neoliberalism is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What this Means for NCD Prevention. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 8(9). 514-520.

Lencucha, R., & Shikako-Thomas, K. (2019). Mapping the terrain for the future of occupational therapy and policy: A scoping study. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 86(3). 185-19

Lencucha, R., Labonte, R., & Drope, J. (2016). Rhetoric and the law, or the law of rhetoric: How countries oppose novel tobacco control at the World Trade Organization. Social Science & Medicine. 164. 100-107

Lencucha R,ÌýDrope J, Labonte R, Zulu R, & Goma F. (2015) Investment incentives and the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Evidence from Zambia. Tobacco Control. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052250

Lencucha R,ÌýDrope J & Chavez J. (2014). Whole-of-Government approaches to NCDs: The case of the Philippine Interagency Committee Tobacco (IAC-T). Health Policy and Planning. doi:10.1093/heapol/czu085

Lencucha R.Ìý(2013). Cosmopolitanism and foreign policy for health: ethics for and beyond the state. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 13(1), 29.

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