Dr. Andrew Pinto
Andrew Pinto is a family physician and Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health. Andrew’s current research is on the economic evaluation of interventions at the population level. This is informed by his previous work on armed violence, equity and ethics. He is also a member of Health Providers Against Poverty.
Dr. Andrea Hunter
Dr. Andrea Hunter is a Consultant Paediatrician at McMaster Children’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, and an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University. She completed both medical school and pediatric residency training at McMaster University and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London, UK. Her clinical interests include pediatric refugee & immigrant health and global child health. Dr. Hunter coordinates a community-based pediatric refugee/immigrant health clinic in north Hamilton, in operation since 2004. She has been involved in organizing pre-departure training for MD students participating in international electives and is involved in ongoing clinical and education projects in Guyana, Ethiopia and Uganda. Dr. Hunter is current President of the Global Child & Youth Health Section of the Canadian Pediatric Society.
Dr. Nancy Doubeday, Sanket Ullal, and Sangita Kamath
Dr. Nancy Doubleday is the HOPE Chair in Peace and Health at McMaster University, and joined the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University in 2009. She serves as an elected member of Senate (2010-present) and the Board of Governors (from 2011). Dr. Doubleday’s research is strongly rooted in the Arctic region, particularly in the context of policy development relevant to human rights and environmental conservation. She works in resilience and adaptive co-management; and is particularly concerned with in the integration of knowledge across disciplines and other cultural boundaries to promote peace and health, through an improved understanding of social-cultural-ecological systems and of the processes by which complex systems change and adapt across many scales of human organization.
Sanket Ullal is a Master of Public Health candidate at University of Saskatchewan. His experiences through his degree in Life Sciences combined with Peace Studies and executive positions held for McMaster Students for Health Innovation have inspired him to pursue the field of health care development and delivery. In 2011, Sanket had the opportunity of doing a public health fellowship in India with the Centre for Public Health and Equity (CPHE). Sanket’s experiences have inspired him to pursue the field of Public Health and Medicine, through which he hopes to work on accessible and comprehensive healthcare in Canadian rural communities.
Sangita Kamath is pursuing her Master’s in Occupational Therapy at McMaster University. Her dream of working with rural communities in India came true when she joined the Centre for Public Health and Equity team as a fellow in the summer of 2011. Her experiences in remediation and rehabilitation in the field of disabilities have reinforced her deep passion for working in Northern Ontario, in the fields of community well-being and integration through occupational therapy.
Neil Arya and Carolyn Beukeboom
Dr. Neil Arya is a family physician in Kitchener Ontario and founding Director of the Global Health Office at The University of Western Ontario. He is former Vice-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize and of President of Physicians for Global Survival (PGS) and has written and lectured around the world about Peace through Health.
Dr. Arya continues as founder Director of the Kitchener/Waterloo Refugee Health Clinic in collaboration with the Kitchener Waterloo Reception Centre 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. He remains Assistant clinical professor in Family Medicine at McMaster University (part-time) and Adjunct Professor in Environment and Resource Studies and in Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo.
In 2011 Dr. Arya has received an honorary doctor of letters D. Litt from Wilfrid Laurier University on their 100th anniversary, the Advocacy Award from KW Reception Centre
Carolyn Beukeboom is a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner presently working at the London Intercommunity Health Center in London dealing with new immigrants and people on the margins of society. She has extensive international health experience having previously worked and lived in Nigeria, India, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Pakistan. In 2007 she completed a nine month mission with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Southern Sudan. Carolyn also worked as a nurse practitioner in Lesotho at an HIV/Aids clinic for four months in the spring of 2009 and returned for one month in January 2010.
Harry Shannon
Harry Shannon is a professor in the Department Of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health. He is the chair of the Methodology Working Group for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. He has been an investigator for a number of global health projects, including studies in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Haiti. He is interested in determining optimal methods of sampling when conducting surveys in low income countries, disaster areas, or war zones.
Dr. Olive Wahoush
Dr Olive Wahoush is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing and recently completed a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University. Dr Wahoush graduated from the University of Toronto with a PhD in Health Policy Management & Evaluation in 2007 (Outcomes measurement & evaluation stream). Her primary research interests are in population health from a social determinants perspective. She completed a course in Refugee studies at the Centre for Refugee Studies (Oxford University). In preparation for research about resettlement Dr Wahoush interviewed UNHCR and IOM staff in Jordan and Syria (2009) to learn about the selection and preparation of refugees for resettlement in Canada. Current research activities include research 1) with refugee families resettling in Ontario, 2) about homelessness and immigrants, 3) developing population interventions for migrant perinatal health equity. Dr Wahoush is a Research Associate with the Centre of Excellence for Research for Immigration and Settlement (CERIS); a member of the Canadian Association for Forced Migration Studies and a researcher affiliated with the Welcoming Communities Initiative Health & Health Care Domain (McMaster University). International experience includes clinical, leadership and education roles in Trinidad & Tobago, the Middle East and Asia. Teaching at McMaster University since 2001 includes courses in the undergraduate nursing program and graduate programs in nursing and health research methods.
Patrick de Luca
Patrick DeLuca, (MA, GISP) is a lecturer and researcher in McMaster University’s School of Geography and Earth Sciences. His research interests include: environment and health, air quality mapping, monitoring and modeling, regional variations in the quality of health and health care and quantitative methods in geography and Geographic Information Systems.
