News Release
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Launches New Assessment on Canada’s Strategic Role in Global Health
Ottawa (October 1st, 2010) – The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) has launched a new major assessment entitled "Canada’s Strategic Role in Global Health". Enhancing global health and ensuring strategic investments in health research has become a priority for many industrialized countries. Canada is a significant player investing ~$500 million a year in global health, yet a concerted effort to analyze its strategic investments or policy choices – such as those done in the U.S. and U.K. - has not been done in Canada.
To this end, the CAHS has asked the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) to manage the process for an evidence-based assessment on Canada’s current role in global health, to assess its comparative advantage in the context of global health needs and to articulate a rationale for Canada to play a more significant role in global health leadership.
“The CAHS is very pleased to be undertaking this assessment with the management expertise of the CCA”, says Catharine Whiteside, President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. “In order to understand Canada’s current role in global health and to build a vision for the future, such an assessment must undergo an intellectually rigorous, disciplined and independent process, as is the general practice of both our organizations.”
Comprised of experts from a variety of fields related to global health, including epidemiology, public health, international development, ethics and economics, the panel will convene for its first meeting in early December to consult with a number of experts in the field and agree on the structure of the report. The assessment will be chaired by Peter A. Singer, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada and Director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto.
“Canadians are rightfully proud of our historical role in the world as peacekeepers and honest brokers, and our recent leadership on the world stage by hosting the Olympics, G8 and G20 meetings. ” says Dr. Singer. “We can also lead in global health by sharing our innovative spirit – in science, health systems, and social determinants -- and engaging more deeply with low and middle income countries.”
For a complete list of the panel members, please refer to page 3 of this news release.
Sponsorship for the assessment is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, sanofi pasteur, and the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health.
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About the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
The CAHS is an independent, non-profit organization composed of selected members from diverse disciplines. It is both an honorific membership and a policy research organization. The Academy’s Fellows, elected on the basis of their professional achievement and commitment to service, are volunteers who commit their time and expertise to provide assessments and advice on difficult public policy challenges of concern to all Canadians in the area of health and health care. It is Canada’s equivalent of the U.S. Institute of Medicine. For information please visit the website at www.cahs-acss.ca.
About the Council of Canadian Academies
The Council of Canadian Academies is an independent, not-for-profit corporation that began operation in 2005. The Council supports evidence-based, expert assessments (studies) to inform public policy development in Canada. Assessments are conducted by independent, multidisciplinary panels of experts from across Canada and abroad. The Council’s blue-ribbon panels serve free of charge and many are Fellows of the Council’s Member Academies: the RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada; the Canadian Academy of Engineering; and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. The Council’s reports are published and made available to the public free of charge in English and French. For information please visit the Council’s website at www.scienceadvice.ca.
For more information contact:
Dr. John Cairns
Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Chair of the CAHS Standing Committee on Assessments
604.875.4111 x66708
JACairns@medd.med.ubc.ca
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The Expert Panel on Canada’s Strategic Role in Global Health
Peter Singer (Chair), FRSC, FCAHS
Lorne Babiuk, O.C., FRSC, FCAHS
Jennifer Brenner
Lorna Jean Edmonds
Tim Evans
Michael Hayden, FRSC, FCAHS
Jody Heymann
Prabhat Jha
Aleksandra Leligdowicz
Anita McGahan
James Orbinski, O.C.
Jeff Reading, FCAHS
Allan Ronald, O.C., FRSC, FCAHS
Nelson Sewankambo
Peter Tugwell, FCAHS
Thursday, October 7, 2010
RESIDENTS WITHOUT BORDERS
invites you to
A Workshop: Global Health Advocacy 101
Join us for an interactive session which will explore the many ways that health professionals can play a role in advocating for vulnerable populations. The CanMEDS roles highlight the fact that physicians, ideally, play an important role in advocating: for individual patients, for communities and for populations. As discussed at our first meeting, an interest in global health often comes with a genuine interest in vulnerable populations (whether in Canada or abroad)-- and an interest in effecting change to the systems that reinforce inequities in health.
What does "ADVOCACY" mean for those of us with an interest in the health of vulnerable populations and in global health? And how do we develop the skills needed for our roles as 'Global Health Advocates'? This session will be guided by 2 physicians who have both been exemplary in their work in advocating for change for populations that traditionally do not have a voice. Both of these speakers have extensive experience both within Toronto and abroad, and will no doubt lead an amazing session.
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 6:30pm
Location: TBA
Free to all interested
RSVP to saterkuile@yahoo.ca Food and drinks to be provided.
SPEAKER BIOS
Dr. Philip Berger
Chief, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Medical Director, Inner City Health Program at St. Michael's Hospital Dr. Berger has been involved with the treatment of HIV positive patients in Toronto since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the 1980's, and is a long-time and outspoken advocate for both the gay/lesbian community and injection drug using populations that he works with as a physician. He has published and lectured widely on critical health issues including drug addiction, the physical and psychological effects of torture and HIV/AIDS. In addition to his work here in Toronto, he served for 4 years as a locum physician at the Tepong (Place of Hope) Clinic, in the Leribe district, of Lesotho, Africa as part of the Ontario Hospital Association?s AIDS initiative (OHAfrica Project).
Dr. Katherine Rouleau
Assistant Professor, St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of TorontoDr. Rouleau is a family physician and the deputy chief in the Department of Family Medicine at St. Michael's Hospital. Her practice focuses on the inner city population including people living with HIV, the homeless, refugees and new immigrants, the poor and marginalized individuals. She teaches family medicine. Her academic activities currently focus on global health and capacity building in family medicine in low income countries. She currently directs the PGY3 Fellowship in Global Health and Vulnerable Populations for FM residents, and has also been involved with collaboration between the Department of Family and Community Medicine in Toronto and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
invites you to
A Workshop: Global Health Advocacy 101
Join us for an interactive session which will explore the many ways that health professionals can play a role in advocating for vulnerable populations. The CanMEDS roles highlight the fact that physicians, ideally, play an important role in advocating: for individual patients, for communities and for populations. As discussed at our first meeting, an interest in global health often comes with a genuine interest in vulnerable populations (whether in Canada or abroad)-- and an interest in effecting change to the systems that reinforce inequities in health.
What does "ADVOCACY" mean for those of us with an interest in the health of vulnerable populations and in global health? And how do we develop the skills needed for our roles as 'Global Health Advocates'? This session will be guided by 2 physicians who have both been exemplary in their work in advocating for change for populations that traditionally do not have a voice. Both of these speakers have extensive experience both within Toronto and abroad, and will no doubt lead an amazing session.
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 6:30pm
Location: TBA
Free to all interested
RSVP to saterkuile@yahoo.ca Food and drinks to be provided.
SPEAKER BIOS
Dr. Philip Berger
Chief, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Medical Director, Inner City Health Program at St. Michael's Hospital Dr. Berger has been involved with the treatment of HIV positive patients in Toronto since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the 1980's, and is a long-time and outspoken advocate for both the gay/lesbian community and injection drug using populations that he works with as a physician. He has published and lectured widely on critical health issues including drug addiction, the physical and psychological effects of torture and HIV/AIDS. In addition to his work here in Toronto, he served for 4 years as a locum physician at the Tepong (Place of Hope) Clinic, in the Leribe district, of Lesotho, Africa as part of the Ontario Hospital Association?s AIDS initiative (OHAfrica Project).
Dr. Katherine Rouleau
Assistant Professor, St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of TorontoDr. Rouleau is a family physician and the deputy chief in the Department of Family Medicine at St. Michael's Hospital. Her practice focuses on the inner city population including people living with HIV, the homeless, refugees and new immigrants, the poor and marginalized individuals. She teaches family medicine. Her academic activities currently focus on global health and capacity building in family medicine in low income countries. She currently directs the PGY3 Fellowship in Global Health and Vulnerable Populations for FM residents, and has also been involved with collaboration between the Department of Family and Community Medicine in Toronto and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
presents
"The Global Health Challenge in North American Universities"
with
James M. Sherry M.D., Ph.D.Director, Center for Global Health, George Washington University
introduction by
Aaron Yarmoshuk, Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative-Africa
Program Manager, AMPATH-RH
Tuesday, October 19 at 4:30pm-5:30pm
Room 100, 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building
RSVP to elayna.fremes@utoronto.ca
Dr. Jim Sherry is a physician with doctorate degrees in medicine (University of Michigan), biochemistry (Carnegie-Mellon University) and clinical training in pediatrics (Children’s Hospital of Michigan). He has extensive program, policy, political, governance, and institutional development experience in global health, including seventeen years as a senior officer and director in the United Nations System with responsibilities ranging from the establishment of the Children’s Vaccine Initiative, UNAIDS, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to: the re-establishment of basic health care services in postwar Rwanda; supporting the negotiation of global health policy by the UN General Assembly and Security Council; providing support to the World Food Programme in the design of the Ending Child Hunger Initiative. Previous assignments have included serving as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in India as Director of Biomedical Research and Technology Development with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and as Chief of Staff for a Member of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. Currently, Dr. Sherry is serving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health of George Washington University.
George Washington University is the lead North American university for the Public Health component of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). The AMPATH Consortium is composed of a number of medical schools in North America. The University of Toronto is the lead North American university for the Reproductive Health component of AMPATH. Indiana University is the overall North American lead of AMPATH, The AMPATH Consortium works to support the capacity development of Moi University School of Medicine and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and primary health care services in western Kenya.
presents
"The Global Health Challenge in North American Universities"
with
James M. Sherry M.D., Ph.D.Director, Center for Global Health, George Washington University
introduction by
Aaron Yarmoshuk, Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative-Africa
Program Manager, AMPATH-RH
Tuesday, October 19 at 4:30pm-5:30pm
Room 100, 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building
RSVP to elayna.fremes@utoronto.ca
Dr. Jim Sherry is a physician with doctorate degrees in medicine (University of Michigan), biochemistry (Carnegie-Mellon University) and clinical training in pediatrics (Children’s Hospital of Michigan). He has extensive program, policy, political, governance, and institutional development experience in global health, including seventeen years as a senior officer and director in the United Nations System with responsibilities ranging from the establishment of the Children’s Vaccine Initiative, UNAIDS, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to: the re-establishment of basic health care services in postwar Rwanda; supporting the negotiation of global health policy by the UN General Assembly and Security Council; providing support to the World Food Programme in the design of the Ending Child Hunger Initiative. Previous assignments have included serving as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in India as Director of Biomedical Research and Technology Development with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and as Chief of Staff for a Member of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. Currently, Dr. Sherry is serving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health of George Washington University.
George Washington University is the lead North American university for the Public Health component of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). The AMPATH Consortium is composed of a number of medical schools in North America. The University of Toronto is the lead North American university for the Reproductive Health component of AMPATH. Indiana University is the overall North American lead of AMPATH, The AMPATH Consortium works to support the capacity development of Moi University School of Medicine and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and primary health care services in western Kenya.
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