2017 GH Mini-Masters

LEADERSHIP

From UTS
Makeda Daley, Manager, Operations Support
Rosemary Evans, Principal
Daniel Genesee, Biology Teacher, Junior-Intermediate-Senior Divisions
Matthew DeClerico, Physics Teacher, Junior- Intermediate- Senior Divisions

From OISE
Master of Teaching (MT) programme in Intermediate/Senior Education 2017 students include
Nadeen Al-Hashimi, Julia Antonini, Michelle Defilippis, Hoda Ebrahimi, Sarah Kamalzadeh (2016)

From GHEI
Simran Dhunna BSc, GHEI Assistant; Advisor, OISE-UTS-GHEI Summer Program
Delaney Hines MPH, Research Coordinator, PHO; Advisor, OISE-UTS-GHEI Summer Program
Judy Kopelow, Manager,  PGME Global Health Programs; Administrative Director, GHEI
Dr. Barry Pakes, PGME Global Health Lead

2017 Schedule and Faculty
Schedule
Day 1 AM – Monday, July 24 – Program Welcome
Day 1 AM – Monday, July 24  Dr. Piggott and Team

•    Problem: How can the most complex concerns facing society be addressed to improve global health locally and internationally? 

•    Description: This session will feature an interactive experience taking on roles to experience what responding to a global health problem is really like. Students will have to act out and position and work together, discovering just how complex global health is in real life.

•    Faculty: Dr. Thomas PIggott is training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, with Family Medicine, at McMaster University. His research interests include global public health, disaster preparedness and response, climate change and health, and addressing health inequities of underserved populations through public health and primary care. He has been involved in indigenous health research in northern Canada and Botswana and has worked clinically in Uganda and in Canada with inner city homeless and refugee populations. He and colleagues have created Global Health Simulation (ghsim.com <http://ghsim.com/) an organization working to improve global health education through open-access simulations.  Resources focus on peace, global health, ethics, and humanitarianism.  Global health issues, both locally and internationally, are some of the most complex concerns facing society. Through engaging role-playing simulations in-person and online, we work to help students and practitioners better understand these complexities.

David Oldenberger is a Registered Nurse with a Masters in Global Health. He is currently in Senegal consulting on an adolescent health education program. Prior to working in Senegal he was a military medical assistant and first aid instructor for over 5 years. He has been involved in health and development missions in Dominican Republic and Haiti, as well as completed a health policy internship with the World Health Organization in Washington D.C.  Through his role in the military, St. as first aid instructor, medical missions abroad, and now in Senegal, he has developed and lead training sessions, including simulation and experiential hands-on learning activities.

Miranda Loutet is currently an epidemiologist in the Tuberculosis Surveillance Unit at Public Health England, leading on enhanced surveillance of mycobacterium drug resistance and molecular strain typing to control transmission of TB in the UK. Miranda completed her BSc in Anatomy and Cell Biology and a minor in International Development at McGill University, and continued her education with a MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She loves to travel and has worked in Costa Rica, Uganda and South Africa. Miranda’s research interests include controlling diseases that disproportionately affect vulnerable and marginalised populations in developed and developing countries

 Day 1 PM – Monday  July 24- Dr. Gajaria 

•    Problem: What is the role of mental health in humanitarian emergencies?

•    Description: In this session, we will discuss the exciting and new field of Global Mental Health as well as some of the challenges and questions associated with this brand new idea!  We will discuss why mental health might matter to international development and humanitarian emergencies and will talk about why some people think mental health might not matter when there is an international health crisis.

•    Faculty: Dr. Amy Gajaria is currently a senior resident in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.  She is an incoming child and adolescent psychiatry subspecialty trainee, a Public Psychiatry fellow with the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and  a resident-fellow member of the APA council on Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities.  She is also in the clinician-scientist program and her research focuses broadly on global mental health, cultural psychiatry, and health equity.  Amy is a graduate of the Global Health Education Initiative at the University of Toronto.

Day 2 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 2 AM – Tuesday, July 25 – Dr. Henry

•    Problem: How can community based health teams improve health for all?

•    Description: In this session, we will learn about family health teams, community-based health care and how different health care providers work together to optimize health care for under resourced populations in Brazil.  We will explore the role of the community health worker, and why despite (and perhaps because of) their minimal level of training, they are central to the team.

•    Faculty: Dr. Melanie Henry is a family physician and global health lead at Markham-Stouffville Hospital. She recently completed her fellowship in Global Health and Vulnerable Populations through the University of Toronto. While in that program she spent 6 months in Brazil learning about the health system, while teaching and working with medical students and residents. Melanie is passionate about using primary care as an inexpensive and effective way to provide health care for all while addressing the social determinants of health.

Day 2 PM- Tuesday, July 25 – Chris Houston 

•    Special Session:  Reflections from the field. 

•    Description:  Mr. Houston is currently in Sana’a, Yemen with the World Health Organisation. While on a brief leave in Toronto (July 10-July 27), he will lead a special session discussing his experience and the WHO work in Yemen. He tweets via @chris_m_h 

•    Faculty: Chris Houston is a field worker with experience working for Médecins Sans Frontières , Canadian Red Cross and the World Health Organisation.  He is currently (April – July 2017) in the field with WHO. He has worked as a Logistician, Project Coordinator Team Leader, Evaluator and Deputy Head of Mission in Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Nepal and Yemen.  He is on roster as part of the Emergency Response Unit and Operations Manager pool for the Canadian Red Cross.  He serves on the board of directors of MSF Canada. Chris has a degree in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland and is a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management and edited the security chapter of the Oxford University Press Humanitarian Handbook.  He previously worked as a Senior Consultant for Marsh Risk Consulting.  He is the co-founder and Operations Director of kid-E-care pediatric urgent care clinic.  Chris has coordinated the GHEI Complex Humanitarian Emergencies module over 4 years and has won the Best Module Award of Excellence. 

Day 3 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 3 AM – Wednesday, July 26 – Dr. Dosani

•    Problem: What can Canadians (students, politicians, health care professionals, educators etc.) do to make life better for people who are homeless?  

•    Description: In this session we will learn about what homelessness is and means to those living without homes, their families and health care professionals.

•    Faculty: Dr. Naheed Dosani is a Palliative Care & Family Physician at William Osler Health System & the Inner City Health Associates (ICHA). He recently completed his fellowship in Palliative Medicine at the University of Toronto and prior to that, his Residency in inner-city Family Medicine, where he served as Co-Chief Resident of St. Michael’s Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. He is a researcher, with projects underway investigating the impact of housing on health, social media as a tool for communication among healthcare providers and palliative care for heart failure patients. He teaches medical students & residents, serves on the Board of Directors for the Agincourt Community Services Association and is the staff advisor for Students for Medicare. Dr. Dosani is passionate about the social determinants of health, inner city health, global health equity and social media. Follow Naheed on Twitter @NaheedD Naheed is a graduate of the Global Health Education Initiative at the University of Toronto.

Day 3 PM – Wednesday, July 26 – Dr. Redditt

•    Problem: How can we promote and enhance optimal health for newly arrived refugee children, their families and other individuals?  

•    Description: In this session, we will learn about immigration patterns, health priorities for refugees, and supporting refugees’ healthy resettlement in Canada.

•    Faculty: Dr. Vanessa Redditt is a family physician at the Crossroads Refugee Clinic, a specialized primary care clinic for refugees at Women’s College Hospital. She holds a BA in International Development Studies from McGill and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed family medicine residency and fellowships in global health and vulnerable populations and in low-risk obstetrics at the University of Toronto. Vanessa is interested in enhancing the health of marginalized individuals and communities through clinical care, health system improvement, and tackling social inequities. She is particularly passionate about immigrant and refugee health, as well as maternal and child health. Vanessa is a graduate of the Global Health Education Initiative at the University of Toronto.

Day 4 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 4 PM – Thursday, July 27-  Aria Ahmad

•    Problem: How can civil society (i.e. students, educators, universities, research institutions, donors and funding organizations) contribute more to global health? 

•    Description: According to the World Health Organization, over two billion people lack regular access to essential life-saving medicines, leading to 10 million deaths a year. The exorbitant cost of medicines can be a significant barrier to access, while over 90% of global R&D is moreover devoted to health issues affecting under 10% of the population. Amidst these health inequities, what are the opportunities for universities and public research institutions in addressing the access to medicines crisis?

•    Faculty: Aria Ilyad Ahmad is a PhD candidate in global governance, specializing in global health governance.  His broad research interests include how emerging global health challenges are framed as well as pharmaceutical policy, with a particular focus on the role of formal and informal institutions in the governance of drug quality.  Aria’s doctoral research examines the disbanding of the World Health Organization’s International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce.  During 2014  he was  based in Geneva at the WHO as a 2014 Global Health Fellow in the Duke Global Policy and Governance Program.  Aria been a faculty member of the Global Health Education Initiative at University of Toronto. Aria was also the inaugural Médecins Sans Frontières Access Fellow in India, a past TEDMED Scholar, and has testified before the Canadian Senate on Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime.  In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and the Global Steering Committee of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, Aria has worked on public health emergency preparedness at Public Health Ontario.  Aria received his MSc in international pharmaceutical policy from the University of Toronto, where he held affiliations with the Global Health Diplomacy Program, the Initiative for Drug Equity and Access and the Graduate Student Alliance for Global Health.

Day 4 PM  – Thursday, July 27 
Students finalize their Innovative solutions to problems
Day 5 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 5 AM – Friday, July 28 Students finalize their Innovative solutions to problems
Day 5 PM – Friday, July 28 Students present their ‘innovations/solutions’ to expert panel of judges.

Expert panel of judges including Delaney Hines MPH, Research Coordinator, PHO;
Advisor, OISE-UTS-GHEI Summer Program plus: 
Dr. Shambe Mutungi is a medical resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a graduate of the Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative program. She takes a special interest in a future career working in Maternal and Women’s Health in Sub-Saharan Africa and with refugee and immigrant populations in the GTA. As a senior resident Shambe hopes to travel to East Africa for clinical work and research and someday aspires to start a Maternal Health information and primary healthcare center in Uganda.

Dr. Maeve O’Neill Trudeau is a fifth-year PGME University of Toronto General Surgery resident whose research focuses on professionalization of the surgical response in humanitarian settings. She has worked with Doctors Without Borders and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative assessing competencies in the surgical humanitarian field. She was awarded the James H. Ware Award for Achievement in the Practice of Public Health while doing her Masters of Public Health at Harvard, for research she conducted with HEAL Africa Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo assessing cell phone usage as a means of increasing postoperative accountability and follow-up in post-conflict and humanitarian settings.

Dr. Hooman Farhang Zangneh is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in adult gastroenterology in Toronto General Hospital, Centre for Liver Disease, University of Toronto, where he focuses on research on decision-analytic modelling for hepatocellular carcinoma and viral hepatitis screening and also in a Masters in Business Administration program at Ryerson University with a focus on health management. He completed a Master of Science at University of Toronto Institute of Medical Sciences with a focus on medical decision making and cost-effectiveness and is a graduate of the Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative program.