Neil Seeman

Senior Fellow & Associate Professor, IHPME, UofT
Fellow of UofT’s Massey College, Senior College, IJB, Fields, and HIVE Lab
Publisher, Sutherland House Experts | Co-founder & Editor, EPS

Neil Seeman is an author, academic, and entrepreneur focused on mental health stigma, health policy, and innovation. He is the author of Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain (Sutherland, 2023), released in Japan in 2025 as Entrepreneurship Addiction (Toyo Keizai). His earlier work, XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame (UofT Press), was shortlisted for the Donner Prize. He is co-author of Psyche in the Lab: Celebrating Brain Science in Canada (Hogrefe & Huber).

In 2025, Seeman was awarded the Lifetime Mental Health Advocacy Award by the Reach Out Together Foundation in recognition of his sustained contributions to mental health awareness and de-stigmatization.

Seeman is a columnist for The Toronto Star and Healthcare Quarterly, and co-founded the Health Strategy Innovation Cell. He is co-founder and publisher at Sutherland House Experts. He holds a JD from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Public Health from Harvard.

He is the Mary and Philip Seeman lead in knowledge transfer at the HIVE Lab at UofT, where he is also a Fellow of Massey College, The Fields Institute, academic advisor to the Investigative Journalism Bureau, and senior fellow and associate professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.

Earlier in his career, he was a founding member of the editorial board of the National Post and founder of international data firm, RIWI, where he served as CEO and Chair for 10 years. He is also a co-founder of EPS, which teaches entrepreneurship through storytelling.

He has published papers in Nature, Synapse, CMAJ and other major journals and works with UofT colleagues in AI, public health, math and creative writing.