Christine Gibson
About
Christine Gibson is founder and Executive Director of Global Familymed Foundation (GFF), active since 2012 throughout Eastern Africa and Asia, with active projects in Uganda. An academic physician with a Masters in Medical Education; she has consulted in Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Nepal. She has spoken at international conferences in South Korea, Brazil, Uganda, Tunisia, and Ireland, and is also a TEDx speaker about humility with a global health narrative. As co-lead of the College of Family Physician's Besrour Centre Narrative Working group, she spearheaded a storybooth project at a large family medicine conference - when the team collected over 130 stories from 55 countries, they were able to publish the qualitative analysis. Recently, she was the podcast host for a ten-episode series for Canadian Family Physicians where she interviewed southern partners about their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She created a residency program in Global Health at the University of Calgary.