Dr. Satya Brink

Associate

Dr. Satya Brink holds a multidisciplinary Ph.D. from Purdue University (USA). She is a policy research expert, experienced in social policy, with a career spanning over 30 years in a range of senior roles in the Canadian government, academia and international organizations such as the OECD. She currently works as a consultant advising developing countries.

She has been active in the field of gerontology. She served on the board of the Canadian Association of Gerontology for 1988 to 1992. She was on the Board of the Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre from 1995 to 2007. She was an adjunct professor at the Simon Fraser Gerontology Research Centre from 1986 to 2017. She served on the Barrier-free Committee of the Canadian National Building Code for five years. She is widely published, has lectured internationally and has provided evidence to legislatures. She has presented comparative international aging policy approaches for the Governments of France, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. She authored “Improving the quality of life of elderly and disabled people in human settlements - a resource book for policy and programmes from around the world” for UN-Habitat in 1993. Dr. Brink was the book editor of “Housing Older People: An international perspective”, Transaction Press, 1998. Her most recent publication is “75 years and over in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic”, in Social Canada in Oct 2020. .