2021 GH Mini-Masters
Monday July 12 – Friday July 16 9am-1pm
Monday August 9 – Friday August 13 9am-1pm
Around the world via Zoom! Share ideas with peers, family and friends at our GHMM Summit on Fridays of each session!
At the Global Health Mini-Masters students will:
- Join friends and make new friends!
- Learn from leaders in Toronto and around the world who are working on big ideas in global health.
- Learn why diversity, equality, equity, diversity, justice and kindness! matter in global health.
- There will also be discussion of allyship, mentorship and partnerships!
Consider one of these themes listed below and see the organizations working on them.
Work in small groups to research and develop ideas to solve a global health problem.
Women’s Health – World Health Organization
Children’s Health – UNICEF and UNICEF Canada
LGBTQ2S+ Health – UN Free and Equal
Indigenous Communities – Well Living House
Persons with Disabilities – World Health Organization
Global Health Mini-Masters Global Health Faculty
Professor Jerome Singh
Theme: global health governance; perspectives from South Africa
Professor Singh (BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD) is the Director of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Advisory Services on Global Health Research and Development, through which he has served as an ad hoc Consultant to several UN entities, including the WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO-TDR), and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). He is the Co-Chairperson of the HIV Prevention Trial Network’s (HPTN) Ethics Working Group, a member of the HIV Vaccine Trial Network’s (HVTN) Efficacy Trial Working Group, and the Principal Investigator and Director of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), funded by the National Research Foundation, South Africa, the Canadian government’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Fonds de Recherche du Québec, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Newton Fund, and South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation (DSI). He currently serves on several oversight bodies, including the International Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the World Health Organisation’s Ad Hoc Research Ethics Review Committee for COVID-19.
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. Gayathri Naganathan
Theme: women’s global health
Dr. Naganathan is a General Surgery Resident Physician at the University of Toronto and an alumna of McMaster University Medical School. She also holds a Master of Science in Health Services Research from the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Her body of work includes research examining the experiences of immigrants, refugees, homeless, and racialized communities in the areas of primary care, mental health, migration, and aging. Her current interests include health policy, health equity, global health, and the application of qualitative methodology within health systems and surgical research.
Dr. Chandandeep Bal
Theme: children’s global health
Dr. Chandandeep Bal is a fourth-year paediatric resident at the University of Toronto. She completed her medical school and undergraduate training at the University of Calgary. She is passionate about advocacy and outreach in medicine and currently contributes to @Punjabikidshealth on Instagram and TikTok to provide culturally relevant developmental and mental health support to children of Punjabi descent.
Dr. Bonnie Cheung
Theme: children’s global health
Dr. Bonnie Cheung is a pediatric resident at the Hospital for Sick Children and an alumna of the University of British Columbia Medical School. Dr. Cheung is an advocacy committee lead at SickKids Hospital. Her research interests include health needs of newcomer children to Canada including immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants, undocumented immigrants, and those living in Canada <5 years.
Dr. Wesley Verbeek
Theme: LGBTQ2S+ global health
Dr. Wesley Verbeek (he/him) is a second year resident in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. As a queer health practitioner he is keenly interested in the health disparities that exist between queer and non-queer communities, especially with members who have intersectional identities.
He works as often as he can at the Adult Gender Clinic at CAMH and is also involved in queer, gender-diversity related research initiatives within psychiatry.
Dr. Julia Olioff
Theme: LGBTQ2S+ global health
Dr. Julia Olioff (she/her) is a second year psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. Her commitment to global health began during her undergraduate studies when she completed a combined Arts & Science and Peace Studies degree. She has subsequently worked with refugees in Toronto in various capacities.
During an elective at the Adult Gender Clinic at CAMH, she developed an interest in the intersection between global health and transgender mental health.
Dr. Sarah Park
Theme: Indigenous global health
Dr. Sarah Park is a family physician who practices family and emergency medicine in Toronto and rural Ontario. She is Qalipu First Nation from Newfoundland and Labrador and is passionate about education in Indigenous Health. Dr. Park provides lectures on this topic at the University of Toronto and works with the Department of Family and Community Medicine on Indigenous health curriculum development for residency training programs.
Dr. Jan Andrysek
Theme: persons living with disabilities
Dr. Andrysek is a Senior Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation hospital, Canada’s largest teaching hospital focused on paediatric disabilities. He is also an Associate Professor within the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto. His research program focuses on the development and improvement of treatments and assistive technologies for children and adults with mobility impairments. Specific areas of study include prosthetic and orthotic limb control, bio sensing and biofeedback systems, and instruments to measure assistive-technology-facilitated mobility and physical activity in real-life environments. Current research is also focused on understanding the global need for prosthetic technology, and impact on mobility, physical function, and quality of life.
He is the recipient of prestigious awards including the 2017 Ontario Profession Engineers Engineering Medal for Research and Development, Clifford Chadderton Award for Prosthetics and Orthotics Research, and first price at the 2015 Accessibility Innovation Showcase Tech Pitch Competition sponsored by the Government of Ontario. Dr. Andrysek is also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Legworks Inc., a social for-profit enterprise focused on improving prosthetic technologies and care for individuals with amputations worldwide.
About the program
2021 Summer Global Health Mini-Masters with Summer Up, offers a specially designed curriculum for Black youth across Ontario who have completed grades 8 through 12 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!
For Summer 2021 this program is in collaboration with the Global Health Education Initiative (GHEI) at Postgraduate Medical Education at University of Toronto, leadership from University of Toronto Schools and SummerUp!
Your Global Health Mini-Masters Team
PGME Global Health Mini-Masters Team:
- Alex Aguilera, BSc, PGME GH Assistant
- Shveta Bhasker, BSc, PGME GH Assistant
- Delaney Hines, MPH, Acting Project Manager, Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Anti-Racism, Ontario Health, & GHMM Lead
- Judy Kopelow, PGME Global Health
- Dr. Barry Pakes, PGME Global Health
University of Toronto Schools (UTS) Team:
- Sharon Zilmer, Coordinator, Summer/March Outreach Programs
- Rosemary Evans, Principal
- Charline Wan, Student Success Lead & GHMM Lead
- UTS Student Facilitators!
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Masters of Teaching (MT) Program
- Hiba Bandakji – OISE MT Candidate
