Marcia RIOUX

York University Canada

Dr. Marcia Rioux is a legal scholar with extensive experience in community based participatory research in the areas of human rights, health and social justice, particularly around international disability rights. Dr. Rioux is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management and teaches Critical Disability Studies, and Health Policy and Equity at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the Director of Disability Rights Promotion International, a multi-year project to monitor disability rights nationally and internationally. She has provided leadership in developing and implementing disability rights, monitoring methodology, and disability rights based indicators. She has also been an advisor to Canadian federal and provincial commissions, parliamentary committees, and international NGO's as well as United Nations agencies. Year of this biography: 2018