Orbinski was promoted to full Professor of Medicine in 2010 at the University of Toronto. From 2012 to 2017, he was CIGI Research Chair in Global Health at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Professor of International Policy and Governance at the Wilfrid Laurier University. Orbinski was the 2016-2017 Fulbright Visiting Professor on Health at University of California, Irvine. As of September 1, 2017 he is professor and inaugural director of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, in Toronto, Canada.