Public Dialogue
Improving Global Health
• Global health through the diaspora lens [Read more]
• A Vancouver doctor brings a cure for clubfoot to children in Uganda [Read more]
• Panos Network provides a new lens for international development [Read more]
• Climate refugees: diaspora response to a human health crisis [Read more]
How are diaspora creating bridging opportunities between North and South?
How are these initiatives transforming health practices and systems in the Global South?
What are the current and potential impacts of diaspora driven initiatives on people, health systems, and institutions in both Canada and globally?
This dialogue will be anchored in compelling stories of change in public health services, health policy and research in which diaspora figure prominently. All diaspora initiatives are based in Vancouver and have a global reach.
• Shafique Pirani, MD, principle organizer and driving force of the Uganda Sustainable Clubfoot Care Project (USCCP)
• Mohammad Zaman, PhD, Social Safeguard/Resettlement Specialist and Executive Director of the Society for Bangladesh Climate Justice
• Marj Ratel, RN, Vancouver-based neuroscience nurse founded Korle-Bu Neuroscience Foundation (KBNF) in 2000 with a particular focus on Ghana and the West Africa region.
• Derek Agyapong-Poku, KBNF ‘s Vice President; President of Excellence in Africa Neuroscience and Health and the Canada-Ghana Liaison
• Steven Pi, President of Hands Across the World, a non-profit organization that has mobilized the Chinese diaspora in Vancouver and other supporters to take on a number of projects in China.
• Lyren Chiu is Founder and President of the Canadian Research Institute of Spirituality and Healing and has 25 years experience and training in both mental health care and spirituality.
• Jerry Spiegel, PhD Manitoba, is a professor at the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He is presently leading several ecosystem health projects in Cuba and Central Europe and is part of the team undertaking a study of the effects of globalization on the Canadian Health Care system for the Romanow Commission. He is a co-chair of the Coalition for Global Health Research (Canada).
• Ashok Mathur, PhD, is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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This project is undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Ce projet est réalisé avec l'appui financier du gouvernement du Canada accordé par l'entremise de l'Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI).