Born in Woodbury, N.J., from Bruce and Joanne Coin, Matt attended Lafayette College in Easton, Peter Coleridge is Vice President, Education and Population Health with BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, Provincial Health Services Authority in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

He has over 15 years of experience at the provincial, national and international levels in health promotion, planning, public policy, educational resource material development and training, knowledge exchange, and marketing and strategic communications.

He has a Masters of Health Science (Health Promotion), a Bachelor of Science (Psychology), and formal training in public relations. Peter has also held senior management positions with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the former Addiction Research Foundation, and the Health Promotion Branch and Substance Abuse Bureau, Ontario Ministry of Health.

Peter is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University; a Lecturer in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; an Associate of the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto; a Special Advisor, Mental Health Promotion, Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health; and, a founding member of the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions.