Eric Breton, a Canadian, is professor of health promotion at the EHESP School of public health. Before settling in France, he acquired a broad international experience in research in Canada, Australia and the United Arab Emirates. His main research interests focus on policy advocacy strategies in the prevention of NCDs, evaluation of complex community-based interventions, and on local capacity building strategies for health and equity. A former Associated Editor for the journal Health Education and Behavior, he sat on different national and regional expert groups such as the High Council for Public Health (HCSP). In 2020, he published with three other editors the second edition of the first health promotion handbook in French, a publication that has mobilized contributions from 40 authors from 6 countries. In 2021, he launched with the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education the first edition of the 3-day Global Community Health Annual Workshop a training programme attended by participants from all over the world.