The Canadian Women in Global Health Working Group provides local perspective, guidance and expert strategic advice on the Canadian Women in Global Health initiative, including development of the Canadian Women in Global Health List, WGH Canada, and related engagements.
Eva Slawecki, Co-Chair
Co-Founder, Canadian Women in Global Health
Executive Director, Canadian Association for Global Health
Board Member, Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health
Dr. Beverly Johnson, Co-Chair
Co-Chair and Co-Founder, WGH Canada Chapter
Chair, MWIA Teenage Pregnancy Task Force
FMWC Ottawa President, Federation of Medical Women of Canada
Dr. Jocalyn Clark
Founder, Canadian Women in Global Health
Executive Editor, The Lancet
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Dr. Barbara Astle
Professor of Nursing & Director of the MSN Program, Trinity Western University
Dr. Margo Greenwood
Academic Leader, National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
University of Northern British Columbia
Janet Hatcher Roberts
Co-Director - WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity
Dr. Djenana Jalovcic
Inclusive Development Practitioner
Associate Professor, in the Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Felicia Knaul
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, Professor at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
Board Member, Women in Global Health Board of Directors
Dr. Muriel Mac-Seing
Postdoctoral fellow, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Lecturer, École de santé publique, Université de Montréal
Dr. Alayne M. Adams
Associate Professor and Global Health Director, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University
Sophie Arseneault
Board Director, Fòs Feminista
Vice-Chair (AWG), Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Reproductive Health Scholar, McGill University
Dhwani Babla
Consultant, World Health Organization
Abel Koka
Master’s Student, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba
Program Officer, End Child Abuse and Neglect Tanzania
Deborah Lester
Director of Health in Emergencies, Canadian Red Cross;
Adjunct Professor, UBC School of Nursing
External Reviewer, U.N. Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace
Heather McPherson
President & CEO, Women’s College Hospital
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto
Board Member, Planned Parenthood Toronto
Hani Rukh E Qamar
Global Health Scholar and Student Researcher, McGill University
Founder, The Canadian Advisory of Women Immigrants (CAWI)
Researcher, The Immigrant Education Society (TIES)