Share ideas with peers, family and friends at our GHMM Summit on Friday July 24 from 11 – 1pm.
“I have learned you are never too young to make a difference.”
Greta Thunberg
Global Health Mini-Masters Faculty
Dr. Andrew Beckett
Theme: people with disabilities around the world
Dr. Andrew Beckett is Assistant Professor and Surgeon-Investigator, Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery and Director of Trauma at Unity Health St. Michael’s Hospital. Andrew is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Canadian Medical Service, having served multiple military missions overseas and holds active positions in the Canadian Armed Forces, including Chief of General Surgery and Trauma Advisor to the Surgeon General and a Senior Advisor on the Canadian Forces Health Services’ blood program.
Dr. Nabiha Islam
Theme: women’s global health
Dr. Islam is an internist at Scarborough Birchmount Hospital. She helps to provide medical care in refugee camps and conflict zones and has spent the greatest amount of her time volunteering in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Dr. Chandandeep Bal, Dr. Bonnie Cheung, Dr. Melissa Lorenzo (L-R.) – on children’s global health
Dr. Bal, Dr. Cheung and Dr. Lorenzo are training to become pediatricians and are Advocacy Committee leads at Sickkids Hospital.
Dr. Chandandeep Bal
Theme: children’s global health
Dr. Bal, Dr. Cheung and Dr. Lorenzo are training to become pediatricians and are Advocacy Committee leads at Sickkids Hospital.
Dr. Bonnie Cheung
Theme: children’s global health
Dr. Bal, Dr. Cheung and Dr. Lorenzo are training to become pediatricians and are Advocacy Committee leads at Sickkids Hospital.
Dr. Melissa Lorenzo
Theme: children’s global health
Dr. Bal, Dr. Cheung and Dr. Lorenzo are training to become pediatricians and are Advocacy Committee leads at Sickkids Hospital.
Dr. Mashford-Pringle is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director for the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Angela is the Director of the Master of Public Health – Indigenous Health program, Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Indigenous Health. She is an urban Algonquin woman from Timiskaming First Nation in northern Quebec whose research is at the intersection of Indigenous health and education. Dr. Mashford-Pringle is co-editor for the International Journal of Indigenous Health.
Your Global Health Mini-Masters Team
Delaney Hines, Senior Analyst Ontario Health and GHMM Lead
Alex Aguilera, Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) Global Health Assistant
Judy Kopelow, PGME Global Health Programming and Strategic Initiatives
Dr. Barry Pakes, PGME Global Health Academic Lead
Charline Wan, Student Success Lead, University of Toronto Schools and GHMM Lead
Jalina Bielaska-DaSilva, Karen Hong, Masters in Teaching candidates,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
About the program
The Global Health Mini-Masters offers a specially designed curriculum for middle and high school level students (students who have completed grades 7, 8, 9 and 10) 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 Mini-Masters. Instructors include health care practitioners, researchers and advocates from around the world.
The program will include information on 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.
“I have learned you are never too young to make a difference.”Greta Thunberg
