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On Friday, April 5th, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the FHS Graduate Caucus are excited to host the FHS Master's Student Career Night. Join us for an evening to chat and network with 4 FHS alumni and learn more about their experience and trajectory from their graduate school experience to their career.

This event is intended for students in the Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate program. Light refreshments and food will be provided.

Spots are limited, reserve your ticket by April 4th: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fhs-masters-student-career-night-tickets-868628550377

WHEN: 

Friday, April 5th
6PM - 7:30PM

WHERE:

FHS Student Commons
Clam Shell (BLU 10810)
Access into the Student Commons is available to FHS students by code

Itinerary:

• 6:00pm - 6:10pm Welcome and Alumni Introductions
• 6:10pm-  7:15pm Panel Questioning
• 7:15pm - 7:30pm End (Food and Post-event networking)

Alumni:

Gurveen G (MPH 2016)
Doctors of BC - Project Manager

I am a certified Project Management Professional with seven years of experience leading teams to plan, execute, and evaluate programs for physicians in British Columbia. Currently a project manager within the Primary Care Clinical Transformation Initiatives team at Doctors of BC focusing on family practice payment models. Interested in health human resources, health economics, and health policy.

I was in the 2013 SFU MPH cohort’s global health stream and completed my practicum at the UNHCR’s Health Unit in Malaysia.

Zarghoona Wakil (MPH 2019)
Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op - Executive Director
Interal Medicine and Clinical Caradiology - International Medical Doctor 

I have a Master of Public Health degree from Simon Fraser University and a medical doctor degree from abroad. I have extensive experience working with the settlement sector and violence prevention and health programming.  I'm currently the Executive Director of the Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op CHC, delivering culturally appropriate primary health care to cultural communities, including immigrants, refugees, and temporary foreign workers (farm workers) in the Lower Mainland.

I received the 2020 Service Recognition Staff Award from the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA). The AMSSA Diversity Award recognized Zarghoona’s work at MOSAIC as the Senior Manager of Specialized and Innovative Programs for her demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and innovative program delivery in the settlement sector, among other criteria.

I serve on the British Columbia Association of Community Health Centers (BCACHC) board. She’s also the Co-Chair of CARES for Equitable Health, which advocates for and finds solutions for equitable access to healthcare services in BC.

Samantha Aro (MPH 2018)
Provincial Health Services Authority - Anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety Facilitator

Samantha Aro (MPH 2018) is currently working with the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Program within Provincial Health Services. As a facilitator, Samantha engages directly with course participants around the history of colonization in Canada, the prevalence of stereotyped beliefs and impacts, as well as ways to identify and address racist practices/instances within organizations and communities.

Outside of work, Samantha is a mother of two young children and actively engaged in having similar conversations around race/racism but for a much younger audience than in her workplace.

Emily Carpenter (MSc 2020)
Fraser Health Authority - Lead, Ethics Services

I engage with people to help build capacity for working with those who are different from us in important ways. I do this by building connections across the organization to help leaders, decision-makers, and staff to work with each other and with patients in ways that respect what is most important to all involved.

I am keenly interested the way the environment affects human health. In my MSc, I focused on how we understand health equity in the context of natural disasters. I have a desire to see health care improved among people experiencing inequities, both in my society and the rest of the world. My background in biology and philosophy has helped me to untangle facts and values in difficult conversation