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Director of the McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health

Headshot of Dr. Charles LarsonDr. Charles Larson is the Director of McGill Global Health Programs and the McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health. He completed his medical degree and subsequent specializations in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Public Health at McGill University. As a medical student, he was a co-founder of the Pointe St Charles Community Health Centre, precursor to Quebec's local community clinic system of primary care. In many ways, this was his introduction to global health and his eventual career path. His actual global health career began in 1987 when he joined the McGill-Ethiopia Strengthening Community Health Project, which he directed from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Larson then returned to McGill as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (EBOH). He also headed the McGill Global Health Office within the Faculty of Medicine and led a five year McGill population child health project in Chelyabinsk Russia. In 2002 Dr. Larson moved to Bangladesh where, on secondment from McGill, he directed the Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), In 2008 Dr. Larson returned to Canada, joining the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia as Professor and Director of the UBC-BC Children's Hospital Centre for International Child Health (CICH). In 2015, Dr. Larson returned to Montreal at which time he assumed the role of National Coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) until it merged to become the Canadian Association for Global Health (CAGH). At the same time, he joined the Departments of EBOH and of Pediatrics as an Adjunct Professor, and the McGill Global Health programs, for which he currently serves as the Director. Dr. Larson’s interests focus on capacity building and in development or delivery research in support of the scale-up of life-saving interventions in under-five children.

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Director of the course on Advanced TB Diagnostics

Headshot of Madhu Pai Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS
Dr. Pai is a Canada Research Chair in Translational Epidemiology & Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University and the Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. His research program is focused on using translational epidemiology and implementation science to enhance tuberculosis care and control, so that products, knowledge and policies can translate into saved lives. He has coordinated multiple courses and workshops on epidemiology, modeling, systematic reviews and meta-analysis around the world.

Directors of the course Advocacy in Global Health

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Ekatha Ann John
Global Health Policy and Advocacy Manager, Results Canada

A world free of poverty is possible – this optimism is what drew me to Results Canada. The people I meet, the actions I see, and the conversations I’m a part of everyday fuel the fire in me to keep fighting for impact. Our team does not believe in saviours, only strong advocates and the power of collective action. This belief, coupled with our unwavering commitment to take action in everyday life, is what makes Results Canada exemplar.

In 2010, I volunteered with a humanitarian organization in India to advocate for the rights of Sri Lankan refugees. I was introduced to concepts like anti-oppression and the power of bringing voices from the community to the decision-making table. It also taught me to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of view – a skill that has helped me build allies and make lifelong friends who empower me in my journey as an advocate of social justice and health equity.

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Leigh Raithby
Policy and Advocacy Officer, Results Canada and Stop TB Canada

As an advocate for health equity and social justice, Results Canada immediately felt like a perfect match for me. With a staff of passionate and intelligent advocates and the support of international partners and volunteers from across Canada, Results has reinforced my confidence in the ability to make a meaningful difference and end extreme poverty. There is a tremendous sense of community at Results, which inspires me to use my voice while amplifying the voices of those around me. I strive to lead with compassion in every aspect of my life, as I believe with compassion we can better connect with others and the world around us.

My most inspiring volunteer experience was working as a Recreational Art Therapy Volunteer at my local rehabilitation hospital. I would visit with the residents and engage in visual art activities with them, which offered an escape from their current reality and provided some much-appreciated social support. This volunteer position solidified my desire to use my abilities to help improve the quality of life of others.

Directors of the course on Antimicrobial Resistance

Headshot Dao Nguyen Dao Nguyen, MSc, MD FRCP(C)
Dr. Nguyen is a clinician scientist, Associate professor of Medicine at McGill, investigator at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and Meakins Christie Laboratories, and attending staff in the Division of Respirology at the McGill University Health Centre. She has received her MD.CM (1997) and MSc Epidemiology (2004) degrees from McGill University, and completed her clinical training in Internal Medicine (New England Medical Center, Tufts University) and respirology (McGill University), and post-doctoral research training (2004-2009) at Seattle Childrens’ Hospital and the University of Washington. She is a Cystic Fibrosis Canada scholar, FRQS Clinicien Chercheur Boursier and Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientist recipient. Her research is focused on the molecular microbiology and host-pathogen interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as well as antibiotic discovery and the mechanisms of antibiotic tolerance.
Photo Makeda Semret Makeda Semret, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Dr. Semret is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the McGill University Health Centre and St-Mary’s Hospital Centre, and a visiting Faculty at Addis Ababa University (AAU, Ethiopia). She is a founding member of the AAU-McGill Partnership in Infectious Diseases (AMP-ID) which she currently co-directs. Her research is focused on assessing the burden of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections in low-resource settings, and the impact of laboratory diagnostics and antimicrobial stewardship interventions on patient outcomes and antimicrobial prescriptions in Ethiopia and in Canada. She has contributed to several of the Summer Institute courses (Tropical Medicine course since 2010, and Global Health Diagnostics course since 2015). She is the founding director of the AMR special session. Read the Lancet Infectious Diseases profile
Headshot Erika Vlieghe Erika Vlieghe, MD
Professor Erika Vlieghe is an infectious diseases clinician with professional experience within and outside Belgium (UK, Uganda, Ecuador, Cambodia). She studied medicine at the Leuven Catholic University, followed by a Postgraduate course in Tropical Diseases at the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) and a specialization in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Leuven Catholic University. From 2004 to 2017 she has been working as a senior staff member and researcher at the ITM. Since 2017 she is heading the Department of General Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the University Hospital of Antwerp (UZA); she teaches capita selecta of tropical medicine and infectious diseases at various undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Antwerp and the ITM. Over the past few years she has been involved in research and capacity building in the field of antibiotic resistance in low and middle income countries; she obtained a PhD in this field in 2014. From October 2014 – October 2015 Erika Vlieghe was temporarily appointed ‘National Ebola-coordinator’ in Belgium. Within this function she has worked in close collaboration with the national health authorities and many other partners to prepare the country for possible Ebola-infections.

Directors of the course on Clinical Tropical and Geographic Medicine

Headshot of Cedric Cédric Yansouni, MD, FRCPC DTM&H
Dr. Yansouni is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, where he serves as Associate Director of the J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases. His research is focused on improving diagnostic tools and care for infectious diseases in remote or low resource settings, with an emphasis on enteric parasitic infections and diagnostic bacteriology. He is currently a technical advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) for prequalification of diagnostics. He has been a founding co-Director of the Global Health Diagnostics Course since 2015 and has contributed to our Clinical Tropical Medicine Course since 2010.
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Dr. Michael Libman, MD
Dr. Libman is the Director of the JD MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Director of the McGill University Division of Infectious Diseases, Consulting Microbiologist for the region of Nunavik and Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University. Dr. Michael Libman has expertise in many areas of infectious diseases and microbiology. His research involves infections acquired by travelers and immigrants, as well as diseases which are particularly problematic in the Canadian far north. Dr. Libman holds leadership positions in a number of professional societies, including the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Canada, the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the International Society of Travel Medicine. He is also involved in the field of infection prevention and control in the health care setting.

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Sapha Barkati, MD, MSc

Dr. Sapha Barkati is an Assistant Professor of Infectious diseases and Medical Microbiology at McGill University. She completed a master’s degree in virology at Université de Montréal and a postdoctoral fellowship in tropical medicine and parasitology at McGill University. Dr Barkati is the educational director of the J.D MacLean Centre for Tropical diseases at McGill University and the director of this site within the GeoSentinel network. Since 2018, she has become an established international faculty of the Gorgas Diploma Course, Instituto De Medicina Tropical “Alexander Von Humboldt” at a Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. She is the chair of the ISTM Migration and Refugee Interest Group Council. Her main interest is the epidemiology of tropical and parasitic diseases in vulnerable individuals, migrants and immunocompromised hosts.

Director of the course on Digital Health

Photo Nikita Pant Pai Nitika Pant Pai, MD, MPH, PhD
Dr. Pai focuses on developing screening strategies for marginalized populations with point-of-care tests to improve screening and diagnosis, in order to make a public health impact. Her current work involves rapid point-of-care tests for HIV and related co-infections (hepatitis C, hepatitis B, syphilis) and the development of innovations that improve uptake of self testing for HIV, multiplex screening for HIV related co-infections for affected populations, and early screening for pregnant women in resource-limited settings. She is a Scientist at the RI-MUHC Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University.

Directors of the course Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM)

Headshot Dr. Pai Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS
Dr. Pai is a Canada Research Chair in Translational Epidemiology & Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University and the Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. His research program is focused on using translational epidemiology and implementation science to enhance tuberculosis care and control, so that products, knowledge and policies can translate into saved lives. He has coordinated multiple courses and workshops on epidemiology, modeling, systematic reviews and meta-analysis around the world.
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Dr Vijayashree Yellappa, Chair TBPPM Learning Network India Chapter and Consultant Niti Aayog

Dr Vijayashree Yellappa is a medical doctor specialised in Public Health and she has a fellowship in HIV medicine. Her PhD focused on the strategies to optimize the involvement of private practitioners in Tuberculosis (TB) care in India. She is currently working as Consultant at the National Institution for Transforming India, the premier policy Think Tank of India and she leads the TBPPM Learning Network India Chapter with McGill University. She undertakes knowledge brokering with senior decision-makers and develop health system policy briefs for wider policy debate. She has carried out several multi-country implementation research projects combining both quantitative and qualitative analysis to produce empirical evidence to strengthen health systems.

Directors of the course on Environment and Global Health

Photo Neil Arya Neil Arya, BASc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DLitt

Dr. Neil Arya is a family physician in Kitchener Ontario. He is the Chair of the PEGASUS Institute and PEGASUS Global Health Conference (www.pegasusconference.ca). He is a Fellow at the Balsillie School for International Affairs and at the International Migration Research Centre. He is an Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University where he was and Scholar in Residence from 2018-2020. He remains Assistant Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at McMaster University (part-time) and Adjunct Professor in Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is a past Vice-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize and of President of Physicians for Global Survival (PGS). He was the president of the Canadian Physicians for Research and Education in Peace (CPREP), which is now IPPNW Canada and has written and lectured around the world about Peace through Health. He was the founding Director of the Global Health Office at Western University and has conducted research around international experiences as well as the impact of overseas electives on host communities and students. Dr. Arya continues as founder Director of the Kitchener/Waterloo Refugee Health Clinic in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Reception House where he provides case-specific care to newcomers and those in need of specialized care and was lead physician developing the Psychiatric Outreach Project, providing mental health for those homeless or at risk in St. John’s Kitchen in Kitchener, tasks which led to him receiving the 2009 College of Family Physicians of Canada Geeta Gupta Award for Equity and Diversity. In 2013 he was given a College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC) Award of Excellence. In 2011 Dr. Arya received a D. Litt. (Honorary) from Wilfrid Laurier University and the mid-Career Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association.

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Nolwenn Noisel, PhD
Professeure adjointe, École de santé publique, Département de santé environnementale et santé au travail, Université de Montréal
 

Directors of the course on Global Considerations of Disability for Rehabilitation Providers

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Shaun Cleaver, PhD
Shaun Cleaver promotes health equity and social justice through academic engagement. His teaching engagements include community service-learning and professional identify formation. His research engagements focus on collaborative research with disability communities in Zambia.

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Sidhiprada Mohapatra, MPT
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. Mohapatra's area of interest is community-based program development, coordination, and implementation in low-resource settings. She is pursuing her doctoral studies in disability studies. She has seven publications in peer-reviewed journals and has collaborated with three grant projects for individuals with disabilities.

Directors of the course on Gender Equality and Global Health: Practical approaches for gender-transformative change

Headshot Alison Riddle Alison Riddle, MSc, PhD(c)
Alison is a Research Associate at the Bruyère Research Institute and a PhD candidate in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender and health, with an emphasis on women and adolescent girls’ health and well-being. Alison has over 20 years of experience in the fields of gender equality, women’s empowerment and global health. Most recently, she was a co-investigator for the Canadian Collaborative for Global Health co-lab, Improving Gender Equality and Nutrition Data for Women, Children and Adolescent Girls, and currently represents BRI as a founding member of the Canadian coalition behind the Gender Transformative Framework for Nutrition. In addition to her studies, Alison works as a Gender Equality and Global Health consultant with Gavi, the Center for Gender Equality at Stanford University, World Vision Canada, and Nutrition International.
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Carol Vlassoff, PhD
Dr. Vlassoff is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and an Adjunct Professor at the Bruyère Research Institute. She worked for 17 years with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Suriname and Washington, D.C. She has also held key posts in the International Development Research Centre, Canada, and in the Canadian International Development Agency.

Dr. Vlassoff has a PhD in economics/demography from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, University of Pune, where she studied in the 1970s. She has published over 60 books and articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has recently published a book, Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India: Blessed with a Son (Palgrave Macmillan) on her three-decade study of women’s reproductive health, social and economic empowerment in an Indian village. A Canadian citizen, Dr Vlassoff splits her time between Canada and Costa Rica.

Directors of the course on Global Health Diagnostics

Photo Nikita Pant Pai Nitika Pant Pai, MD, MPH, PhD
Dr. Pai focuses on developing screening strategies for marginalized populations with point-of-care tests to improve screening and diagnosis, in order to make a public health impact. Her current work involves rapid point-of-care tests for HIV and related co-infections (hepatitis C, hepatitis B, syphilis) and the development of innovations that improve uptake of self testing for HIV, multiplex screening for HIV related co-infections for affected populations, and early screening for pregnant women in resource-limited settings. She is a Scientist at the RI-MUHC Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University.
Photo Cedric Yansouni Cédric Yansouni, MD, FRCPC DTM&H
Dr. Yansouni is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, where he serves as Associate Director of the J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases. His research is focused on improving diagnostic tools and care for infectious diseases in remote or low resource settings, with an emphasis on enteric parasitic infections and diagnostic bacteriology. He is currently a technical advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) for prequalification of diagnostics. He has been a founding co-Director of the Global Health Diagnostics Course since 2015 and has contributed to our Clinical Tropical Medicine Course since 2010.

Director of the course on Health Systems Strengthening and Global Governance

Janet Hatcher Roberts

Janet Hatcher Roberts

Janet Hatcher Roberts has over 30 years experience in bridging communities, evidence and policy both nationally and internationally. Currently, Janet is the Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Knowledge Translation, Technology Assessment for Health Equity at Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, at the University of Ottawa. Through her work at the WHOCC and the university she teaches courses on health systems and global governance and carries out research focussing on equity, health systems and global health.

From 1998-2013, she was the Executive Director of the Canadian Society for International Health ) where she oversaw the design and implementation of global health systems strengthening projects in Africa, Asia, Latin and Central America and Eastern Europe finded by CIDA, IDRC,World Bank, WHO and PAHO. She served as the technical representative for PAHO in Canada from 1998-2002. She spent 2007-2008 in Geneva where she was Director of the Migration Health Department with the International Organization for Migration, now UN Migration.

In her volunteer time, Janet was the Chair of the Board for Action Canada for Population Development and was a Board member and Past Treasurer of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. She was a Board member of the US-based Council of Graduate Foreign Nurses (CGFNS)from 2007- 2016 . From 2009-2019, she was appointed by an Order in Council as Board member to Public Heath Ontario (PHO) where she also sat on the Strategic Planning Committee and Governance Committee. From 2018 to 2020, she has served as an ex-officio member and now board member of the Ottawa Centre Liberal EDA.She also served for four years on the National Board of Make Poverty History. Since January 2021 she has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the newly formed Pegasus Institute and is a member of the newly formed Transition committee for the new Canadian Association for Global Health, an amalgamation of the Canadian Society for International Health and the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.

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Innocent Ntaganira, MD, MSc, MA

Dr Innocent Ntaganira is a public Health expert with more than 38 years of professional experience including 19 years with the World Health Organization (WHO). He retired from the WHO at the end of June 2021, the last position being that of WHO Representative to the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), working on facilitating engagement between the WHO, the two organizations and other continental bodies to advance the health agenda in Africa. The professional journey took him through various levels of public health system governance, from primary health care service delivery to central policy making and across several African countries.

Dr Ntaganira is an alumni of the University of London (MA in Global Diplomacy), Université Laval (MSc in Epidemiology) and Université du Burundi (MD). Other short term academic trainings include seminars with John Hopkins University (USA), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK) and the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development (Switzerland).

Srikanth Kondreddy

Srikanth Kondreddy, PhD

Dr. Srikanth Kondreddy trained in global health policy, governance, and diplomacy. He has over 15 years of experience working with the Government of Canada, United Nations agencies, Global Health Thinktanks and Academia. He is a Founding member and Vice-president of Policy and Research with UrbanHealth360, a Non-profit organization based in the USA.

Currently, he works for the World Health Organization, Geneva. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, an investigator at Bruyere Research Institute and a Senior Fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, Ottawa, Canada.

He contributes to global health policy discussions and is a member of various policy engagement networks, including the Think 20 - a policy engagement group of the G20. He was an Indian Council of Medical Research Fellow and a J N Tata Scholar. He also received awards from the Canadian Society for International Health, Eastern Sociological Society, International AIDS Society, and University Grants Commission. In addition, he received research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Swiss Network for International Studies, Worldwide Universities Network, Global One Health Network and JN Tata Endowment. He has published in high-impact global health and health policy journals. He holds a PhD from the National AIDS Research Institute/the University of Pune (India), Post-doctoral Fellowships/Training from McGill University (Canada) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland).

Directors of the course on Introduction to Migration and Health

Photo Neil Arya Neil Arya, BASc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DLitt

Dr. Neil Arya is a family physician in Kitchener Ontario. He is the Chair of the PEGASUS Institute and PEGASUS Global Health Conference (www.pegasusconference.ca). He is a Fellow at the Balsillie School for International Affairs and at the International Migration Research Centre. He is an Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University where he was and Scholar in Residence from 2018-2020. He remains Assistant Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at McMaster University (part-time) and Adjunct Professor in Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is a past Vice-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize and of President of Physicians for Global Survival (PGS). He was the president of the Canadian Physicians for Research and Education in Peace (CPREP), which is now IPPNW Canada and has written and lectured around the world about Peace through Health. He was the founding Director of the Global Health Office at Western University and has conducted research around international experiences as well as the impact of overseas electives on host communities and students. Dr. Arya continues as founder Director of the Kitchener/Waterloo Refugee Health Clinic in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Reception House where he provides case-specific care to newcomers and those in need of specialized care and was lead physician developing the Psychiatric Outreach Project, providing mental health for those homeless or at risk in St. John’s Kitchen in Kitchener, tasks which led to him receiving the 2009 College of Family Physicians of Canada Geeta Gupta Award for Equity and Diversity. In 2013 he was given a College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC) Award of Excellence. In 2011 Dr. Arya received a D. Litt. (Honorary) from Wilfrid Laurier University and the mid-Career Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association.

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Cheryl Martens, PhD
Cheryl Martens is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Inequalities; Associate Professor in Sociology and Coordinator of Social Ciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Founding member of the Pegasus Institute Latin American Network

Directors of the course on Pandemic Preparedness, Alert, and Response

Headshot of Dr. Liang Chen Liang, PhD
Dr. Chen Liang is a professor at the Department of Medicine, the Division of Experimental Medicine, an associate member at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. He is the interim director of the McGill AIDS Centre. His laboratory is located at the Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital. His research focuses on understanding host immune restriction of HIV-1 infection. His group has discovered two of the few host restriction factors that have been reported to potently inhibit HIV-1. He has also applied the CRISPR gene editing technology for curing HIV-1 infected cells by targeting and eliminating infectious HIV-1 DNA. His group is dedicated to the discovery of HIV cure.
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Yassen Tcholakov, MD MSc MIH

Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
Clinical Lead in Infectious Diseases, Nunavik Department of Public Health

 

Director of the course on Peace through Health

Photo Neil Arya Neil Arya, BASc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DLitt

Dr. Neil Arya is a family physician in Kitchener Ontario. He is the Chair of the PEGASUS Institute and PEGASUS Global Health Conference (www.pegasusconference.ca). He is a Fellow at the Balsillie School for International Affairs and at the International Migration Research Centre. He is an Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University where he was and Scholar in Residence from 2018-2020. He remains Assistant Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at McMaster University (part-time) and Adjunct Professor in Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is a past Vice-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize and of President of Physicians for Global Survival (PGS). He was the president of the Canadian Physicians for Research and Education in Peace (CPREP), which is now IPPNW Canada and has written and lectured around the world about Peace through Health. He was the founding Director of the Global Health Office at Western University and has conducted research around international experiences as well as the impact of overseas electives on host communities and students. Dr. Arya continues as founder Director of the Kitchener/Waterloo Refugee Health Clinic in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Reception House where he provides case-specific care to newcomers and those in need of specialized care and was lead physician developing the Psychiatric Outreach Project, providing mental health for those homeless or at risk in St. John’s Kitchen in Kitchener, tasks which led to him receiving the 2009 College of Family Physicians of Canada Geeta Gupta Award for Equity and Diversity. In 2013 he was given a College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC) Award of Excellence. In 2011 Dr. Arya received a D. Litt. (Honorary) from Wilfrid Laurier University and the mid-Career Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association.

Directors of the course on Qualitative Methods in Global Infectious Diseases Research

Photo Amrita Daftary Amrita Daftary, PhD, MPH
Dr. Daftary is a social and behavioural health scientist. Her research examines health care seeking and caregiving practices for HIV and TB to inform the design and evaluation of multi-level interventions. Dr. Daftary has expertise in qualitative research methods, global implementation science, and health services research. She is well cited for her work on stigma associated with TB, including drug-resistant TB and TB-HIV coinfection. She works in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa, and India and Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Policy & Management, in the Faculty of Health at York University. Dr. Daftary holds adjunct positions at the University of Toronto and Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu Natal. Her early training was in pharmacy.
Headshot Dr. Engel Nora Engel, PhD
Dr. Engel is associate professor of Global Health at Maastricht University. Her research focuses on innovation dynamics in global health challenges (mainly tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS) and on the sociology of diagnostics and innovations at the point-of-care. She has done extensive qualitative fieldwork in India and South Africa, among others on challenges to point of care testing across different settings, diseases and actor groups. She is a contributor on qualitative research to the advanced TB diagnostics course since 2012 and together with Amrita Daftary successfully launched the qualitative methods course in 2017.

Director of the course on TB Research Methods

Headshot Richard Menzies Dick Menzies, MD
Director, McGill International TB Centre
Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
My research involves clinical and epidemiologic studies of the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB). This includes latent (dormant) TB and active TB (disease), as well as drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB. My international reseach collaborations include work in sites in Benin, West Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam. Within Canada, I am part of a network of TB researchers in Ottawa, Toronto, Calagary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
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