Martin Cooke is a demographer and sociologist.  He holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Winnipeg in Administrative Studies and Sociology and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Western Ontario.  He is presently Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo where he teaches about quantitative social analysis, demographic trends and the social determinants of health in the department of Sociology and Legal Studies and the School of Public Health and Health Systems.  He has been Co-Director of the Waterloo Survey Research Centre and an affiliated scientist with the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact.  

Marty leads project teams composed of academic colleagues and graduate students.  He regularly works with teams including economists, criminologists, epidemiologists, knowledge translation specialists, and other really smart people, assembled according to the needs of each project.