2019 GH Mini-Masters

LEADERSHIP
From OISE
Master of Teaching Students, 2019 Intermediate/Senior Education Program,
Rosa Nazari and Luxnah Sivalinkam 
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 and GHMM Lead

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 Mini-Masters. 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 Academic Lead and GHEI Program Director, GHEI. 

2019 Schedule and Faculty

Overarching / umbrella theme of our Global Health Mini-Masters 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 22 – Program Welcome
Day 1 AM – Monday, July 22  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 22 – 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 23 Intro to the Day
Day 2 AM  – Tuesday, July 23 – Dr. Kerry Bowman 

In this session we will discuss social, political and health issues faced by local and global populations because of challenges related to cross – cultural communication and understanding. 

Faculty: Dr. Kerry Bowman, PhD, is a Canadian bioethicist and conservationist. Born in Montreal and now based in Toronto, he is a frequent public speaker both nationally and internationally. He is best known for his wide-ranging work in the areas of bioethics and environmental protection. In the field of clinical ethics, Dr. Bowman specializes in end-of-life decision-making and cross-cultural healthcare delivery, as well as genetics, genomics, cloning-animal ethics and ethical questions in emerging medical technologies. He has been consulted on these topics in countries such as Iran, the People’s Republic of China and South Africa. Dr. Bowman is the clinical ethicist for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and holds an academic appointment with The University of Toronto in Family and Community Medicine. He also serves with The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and The University of Toronto Centre for Environment.

Day 2 PM- Tuesday, July 23 – 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 mentor 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 24 – Dr. Naheed Dosani

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

Faculty: Being sick, of course, is very hard, but being sick and living on the street, is even harder. Dr Naheed Dosani is a passionate and respected advocate for marginalized & vulnerable populations with palliative needs. He serves as a Palliative Care Physician at the Inner City Health Associates (ICHA) and William Osler Health System (WOHS). In 2014, Dr Dosani founded PEACH (Palliative Education And Care for the Homeless), a mobile, street & shelter-based outreach service aimed at meeting the Palliative Care needs of the homeless & vulnerably housed. Later, in 2018, he helped support the launch of Journey Home Hospice, supporting the care of Toronto’s homeless & vulnerably housed population at end-of-life, where he now serves as Medical Director. Through PEACH and the Journey Home Hospice initiatives, he provides Toronto’s most marginalized populations with compassionate care and a dignified approach to their end-of-life journeys.

More recently, he was the recipient of the 2018 Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada. Prior to that, he was recognized by his peers with the 2015 Early Career Development Award by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Further, his efforts have received national and international media attention by the likes of CBC News’ Morning Live & The National, CBC Radio World at Six, the Medical Post, Hospital News, The Toronto Star, The Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Global Television, CBC Radio Canada International, CTV News, CityNews, The Canadian Press, USA Today and even a feature CBC Radio Documentary entitled, ‘What’s a Life Worth?’. His compelling and must-see TEDx talk, ‘What’s a Life Worth?’, delivered in April of 2016 at TEDxStouffville, has received over 5000 views on YouTube and has become the ‘gold standard’ tool to educate and highlight the importance of health equity in Palliative Care.

As both a researcher and educator, Dr Dosani serves on faculty as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and as Lecturer in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Meanwhile, supporting community-based healthcare as a member of the Board of Directors of the Inner City Family Health Team (ICFHT) and as Section Editor for the peer-reviewed, Canadian based and internationally distributed academic journal, Current Oncology.

Committed to addressing the social determinants of health as an advocate, Dr Dosani integrates his passions while providing a much-needed focus on equity via evidence-based solutions to reducing health disparities.

Day 3 PM – Wednesday, July 24 –   Ms. Carol Devine

In this session we will learn about Climate Change and the impact here and around the world. How can civil society (i.e. students, educators, the public) better understand the challenges related to Climate Change and what can we do! 

Faculty: Ms. Carol Devine  http://www.caroldevine.info/ 
Carol Devine is Community Scholar at Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University and Humanitarian Affairs Advisor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada. She co-leads a project on climate, environment and health for MSF and has contributed to the 2018 Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change. Carol has worked with MSF in Rwanda, East Timor, Peru and South Sudan as humanitarian advisor and was the Canadian liaison for MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines Campaign. She’s also a writer, conceptual artist and social scientist who’s led and participated in ocean pollution and research initiatives in the UK, Arctic and Antarctic. Carol was a 2016 Fellow with Ecologic Institute’s Arctic Summer College. She has advocated for access to medicines and for respect for humanitarian principles and law before the Canadian Parliament and the World Trade Organization and has been a speaker at TEDxMontrealWomen, the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness and at the American Geophysical Union Conference in 2018 on plastic pollution, climate change and health. Her sciart is exhibited at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and has been in group exhibitions including at the New York Hall of Science and featured with the Photographic Museum of Humanity.

Day 4 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 4 AM – Thursday, July 25 – 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 25
Students finalize their Innovative solutions to problems

Day 5 AM – Intro to the Day
Day 5 AM – Friday, July 26 Students finalize their Innovative solutions to problems
Day 5 PM – Friday, July 26 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

Postgraduate Medical Education Global Health Education Initiative assistants: 

• Alex Aguilera, BSc candidate
• Priya Dhir, Doctor of Medicine (MD) candidate, 2021

Thankyou for learning with us!