2018 GH Mini-Masters
LEADERSHIP
From OISE
Fiona McDonald and Lauren Matera, Master of Teaching Students,
2018 Intermediate/Senior Education Program
David Montemurro, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Curriculum and Learning, OISE
From UTS
Makeda Daley, Manager, Operations Support
Rosemary Evans, Principal
Matthew DeClerico, UTS Teacher
From GHEI
Delaney Hines MPH, Analyst, Health Quality Ontario; Advisor, OISE-UTS-GHEI Global Health Mini-Masters Summer Camp
Alex Aguilera and Ness Karsenti, PGME Global Health
Judy Kopelow, Manager, PGME Global Health Programs; Administrative Director, GHEI
UTS-OISE-GHEI Global Health Mini-Masters Summer Camp
When, where and for who.
Monday, July 23 through Friday, July 27, 2018
University of Toronto Schools, 371 Bloor Street West.
For students who have completed grades 7, 8, 9 and 10.
About the program.
The Global Health Summer Camp offers a specially designed curriculum for middle and high school level students who want to understand critical health challenges facing our world’s people and environment. Young students who want to learn and think about how they can contribute to making our world better are eager to participate in the Global Health Summer camp. Instructors include health care practitioners, researchers and advocates who in addition to their training and work in Toronto have experience across the world. The program will include case-studies with real social, economic, political, legal, ethical and health problems faced by world populations for campers to think about solving and in so doing become an agent for change; an advocate and global citizen! This program is in collaboration with the Global Health Education Initiative (GHEI) at Postgraduate Medical Education at University of Toronto, OISE Master of Education in Teaching students and leadership from University of Toronto Schools.
Global Health at PGME is led by Ms. Judy Kopelow, Manager, Global Health Programming and Strategic Initiatives; Administrative Director, GHEI and Dr. Barry Pakes, PGME Global Health Lead and Program Director, GHEI.
2018 Schedule and Faculty
Overarching / umbrella theme of our Global Health Summer Camp is “how can addressing the challenges of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lead to enhanced, improved health and well being for the most under-resourced, disenfranchised local and global populations and communities locally and internationally.”
Schedule
Day 1 AM – Monday, July 23 – Program Welcome
Day 1 AM – Monday, July 23 Dr. Jennifer Hulme
How can addressing the challenges of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lead to enhanced, improved health and well being for the most under-resourced, disenfranchised local and global populations and communities locally and internationally.
Faculty: Dr. Jennifer Hulme is Attending Staff, Emergency Department, University Health Network and Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. She specializes in health systems and operations research, bringing proven interventions and technologies to scale and strengthening public-sector health systems to improve health equity. The first ten years of her career were spent working to improve quality and access to primary care in low and middle-income settings in areas of reproductive, maternal and child health. She transitioned to action-oriented work on women’s health among underserved populations in Canada.
Now, Dr. Hulme leads a research program aimed at addressing health disparities. She is currently the PI on an Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences study of patients with frequent emergency department visits for alcohol intoxication. She is also co-investigator on an operations research study of the scale-up of misoprostol for the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in Mozambique. She co-chairs the Health Equity Committee of the Global Health Emergency Medicine group, which aims to bring together health professionals seeking solutions to health inequities through advocacy, research, education and clinical practice, in order to improve outcomes for marginalized communities. Dr. Hulme is a graduate of Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative.
Day 1 PM – Monday July 23 – Mr. Chris Houston
Special Session: Reflections from the field.
During this session Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will be discussed including the following challenges found ‘in the field:’
-Funding gaps for humanitarian response to conflict and natural disaster emergencies
-Inequities in distribution of funding as r/t international agencies vs local and national agencies.
-Disparities in response to most vulnerable populations (ie women, children, LGBTQ, elderly, people with disabilities, people with chronic diseases) as a result of political and natural disaster emergencies.
Faculty: Mr. Chris Houston is a Senior Program Officer for Grand Challenges Canada managing the Humanitarian Grand Challenge program. Prior to joining Grand Challenges Canada, Chris completed his bachelors in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University. He worked as an Associate Vice President for Marsh Risk Consulting before his humanitarian career. Since then has worked for Médecins Sans Frontières in Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Turkey, Ethiopia and Pakistan as a Logistician, Project Coordinator and Deputy Head of Mission. He has worked for the Canadian Red Cross in Lebanon and Nepal evaluating and overseeing health projects. In early 2017, he managed logistics and operational support for World Health Organisation in Yemen.He co-founded kid-E-care pediatric urgent care clinic in Toronto. He teaches the Complex Humanitarian Emergencies module as part of the Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative and has just completed his term as a member of the Board of Directors of Médecins Sans Frontières Canada. Follow Chris Houston on Twitter @chris_m_h.
Day 2 AM – Tuesday, July 24 Intro to the Day
Day 2 AM – Tuesday, July 24 – Dr. Aisha Khatib
In this session we will discuss social, political and health issues faced by local and global populations because of challenges related to Infectious and Neglected Diseases.
Faculty: Dr. Aisha Khatib is a Clinical Tropical Medicine Fellow in the Tropical Disease Unit at the Toronto General Hospital, under the Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. She also works at the Immigrant Women’s Health Centre, a sexual health clinic serving immigrant, refugee and marginalized clients from across the city of Toronto. She is trained in both family and emergency medicine, and completed her family medicine residency at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and emergency medicine residency at McGill in Montreal.
After her training, she moved to New Zealand for four years where she worked in urgent care and general practice, as a rugby team doctor, and as a travel doctor with Worldwise Travellers Health and Vaccination Centres. She has done tropical medicine training in Thailand and Cambodia and holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Institute in Peru. She has worked abroad doing HIV/AIDs work with a local NGO in India, in women’s health through Himalayan Healthcare in Nepal where they were accompanied by National Geographic, and also in Haiti, during the cholera outbreak after the earthquake in 2010. She is passionate about global health and geographic medicine, with an interest in travelers, immigrant and refugee health. Aisha was in the first class of graduates at the Global Health Education Initiative led by Postgraduate Medical Education at University of Toronto.
Day 2 PM- Tuesday, July 24 – Ms. Anita Balakrishna
In this session we will discuss how to react to issues and even experiences you have or witness that challenge diversity, equity and inclusion. With discussion and interactive workshop we will learn what an ally or mentio is and how we can become one and so better understand how to stand up for ourselves, others and what we believe ensures Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. (https://medicine.utoronto.ca/allyship-and-inclusion-faculty-medicine)
Faculty: Ms. Anita Balakrishna has recently taken on the role of Diversity Strategist with the Faculty of Medicine. Before taking on this position she has worked as a lawyer, a college professor, a conflict resolution professional, and a diversity and equity trainer. Her main interest in diversity and equity stems from her passion for social justice, which has permeated all of her professional and personal work. She is also extremely interested in how to incorporate inclusion and diversity policy and programming into organizational change initiatives across various sectors, such as health care, the legal system, the non-profit sector, and public service. Anita is currently pursuing her Masters of Education in Adult Education and Community Development at OISE. She is also an experienced yoga teacher and is currently pursuing a 2 year yoga therapist training program. Ms. Balakrishna is faculty of the Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative.
Day 3 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 3 AM – Wednesday, July 25 – Dr. Susan Woolhouse
In this session we will learn about what homelessness is and means to those living without homes, their families and health care professionals.
Faculty: Susan Woolhouse is a community based family physician who has been providing comprehensive primary care to people who are homeless for the last 15 years in downtown Toronto. Although she has worked and still works in various shelters and drops in, the majority of her work has been at South Riverdale Community Health Centre where she has been doctor to the same group of patients for the last 13 years. She is unfortunately an expert in caring for people who are homeless. She completed her Master’s in Clinical Science in 2010 and her thesis focused on engaging women who use drugs in primary care. Susan also helped start the first Hepatitis C treatment program for people who are underhoused and/or use drugs. The Toronto Hepatitis C Program has now been running for over a decade and has cured hundreds of people with hepatitis c who were once refused treatment or deemed incurable. Her research interests include continuity of care, the patient-physician-relationship and women’s health. Susan is a Lecturer as the University of Toronto and helped establish the Faculty of Medicine’s Poverty and Health curriculum.
Day 3 PM – Wednesday, July 25 – Mr. Aria Ilyad Ahmad
How can civil society (i.e. students, educators, universities, research institutions, donors and funding organizations) contribute more to global health? 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 is the Global Health Foresighting Fellow and a previous Policy Advisor at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. Since 2014, he has also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products. Aria is a past Duke University Global Health Fellow and past faculty member of the Global Health Education Initiative at the University of Toronto. He has testified before the Canadian Senate on Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime, served on the board of directors of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and was the inaugural Médecins Sans Frontières Access to Medicines Fellow in India. Aria received his MSc in international pharmaceutical policy from the University of Toronto, and is completing his PhD in global health governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada.
Day 4 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 4 AM – Thursday, July 26 – Dr. Vanessa Redditt
How can we promote equitable and optimal health for newly arrived refugee children, their families and other individuals ? 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 and current faculty of the Global Health Education Initiative at the University of Toronto.
Day 4 PM – Thursday, July 26
Students finalize their Innovative solutions to problems
Day 5 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 5 AM – Friday, July 27 Students finalize their Innovative solutions to problems
Day 5 PM – Friday, July 27 Global Health Summit!
Students present their ‘innovations/solutions’.
Our PGME Global Health team will participate as ‘Expert Panel Members, at the Summit and provide their comments, encouragement and congratulations to each group. Family and friends are welcome!
Expert panel will include:
Delaney Hines MPH, Analyst, Health Quality Ontario
Advisor, OISE-UTS-GHEI Global Health Mini-Masters Summer Camp
Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative assistants:
- Nessika Karsenti, MSc (c)
- Alex Aguilera, BSc (c)