Click the video below for an introduction to Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF)'s brilliant campaign for World Food Day 2011. To view more photos and videos and to help rewrite the story of malnutrition,click here.
Rooted in a commitment to health equity, this site is designed to serve as a resource for exploring the distribution and determinants of health, and for sharing examples of global health delivery.
Andrew Bresnahan is a student of public health in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University, with an MSc in medical anthropology from the University of Toronto. Rooted in a commitment to health and social justice, my interests include social epidemiology, primary health care, and community-based participatory research and health promotion in rural and remote northern communities.
Chris Keefer is a medical student at McMaster School of Medicine and an International Health Liaison for the Canadian Federation of Medical Students. My research interests include innovations in medical education, particularily those which expand access to formerly excluded sectors such as the Latin American School of Medicine and the Cuban/Venezuelan experience with "Medical School without Walls."
Nanky Rai is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. She is currently studying health promotion with a global health focus at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. My research interests include race-based discrimination and access to health care, the intersection of gender, violence and health outcomes, community-based research on the determinants of health for marginalized populations with a focus on access to health(care) for the undocumented and social marginalisation of immigrant and refugee youth.