Dr. Keith Denny

Keith is director of Classifications and Terminologies and the head of the Canadian Collaborating Centre for the World Health Organization Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC), which is hosted at CIHI. He provides strategic leadership on the development, application and use of health classifications and related terminological standards. He has many years of experience in the health sector as an educator, manager and researcher at the interface of population health, health services and health policy.

Keith is co-chair of the Council of the WHO’s international health classifications network. He has participated on numerous Canadian and international boards and advisory committees, most recently serving on the board of the Canadian Health Information Management Association where he was chair of the Committee of the Canadian College of Health Information Management and the Professional Ethics Committee.

Keith has master’s degrees in information science and social science, and a PhD in social science and health from the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. His research interests include health classifications and related standards, sociology of quantification, social and economic inequalities and health, and policy studies.