Kevin Chan

'Kevin Chan is currently a emergency physician at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is considered to be the foremost expert in the field of global health, specifically, peadiatric population health.

he received a Bachelor of Science B.Sc. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto, a MD from the University of Ottawa, and a MPH From Harvard University. Currently completing work for his DPH at Harvard.

In 1994, Dr. Chan co-founded the Student University Network for Social and International Health or Reseau Etudiants Universitaire Pour la Sociale et Sante Internationale. He also help found the Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Ottawa and the Centre for International Health at the University of British Columbia.

In 2001-2002, he was co-chair of the Canadian Society for International Health. And from 2001-2003, he was President of the International Child Health Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society. He was the recipient of the Chris Krogh award Prize from the Global Health Education Consortium.

He is the winner of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University in 2002. In 2003, he won the Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholarship in International Health. Currently, he holds the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship from Canada.

Dr. Chan has worked extensively in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, as well as in complex humanitarian emergency situations in Rwanda and Kosovo.