麻豆AV

Schedule - Day 1

April 11th 11:30am-4:00pm

Schedule - Day 2

April 13th 11:30am-4:00pm

Our speakers- Day 1

Heidi Hoernig, Academic Associate, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, 麻豆AV and Consultant

Heidi Hoernig is a research development professional with seven years鈥� experience at 麻豆AV providing strategic and pre-award support to research development and funding. She has supported the development and submission of more than 400 grant applications to provincial, national and international agencies and foundations by 麻豆AV faculty members across the social sciences, humanities and health sciences. She holds a PhD in Planning from the University of Waterloo and was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at INRS.

Madhukar Pai, Professor of Epidemiology, 麻豆AV, Director, 麻豆AV Global Health Programs, Associate Director, 麻豆AV International TB Centre, Canada Research Chair in Translational Epidemiology & Global Health

Madhu Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF. He is currently a professor of epidemiology at 麻豆AV in Montreal. He serves as the Director of Global Health Programs, and as an Associate Director of the 麻豆AV International TB Centre. In addition, he serves as a Consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva. Madhu has previously served as co-chair of the Stop TB Partnership's Working Group on New Diagnostics. He is on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, International Journal of TB and Lung Disease, among others.

Madhu鈥檚 research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. His research is supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, and Stars in Global Health award from Grand Challenges Canada. In 2014, he was selected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Our speakers - Day 2

Dr. Nil Basu, Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair in Environmental Health Sciences

Dr. Nil Basu is the recent recipient of the $9.6M grant from Genome Canada and a $3M NIH/IDRC grant for his work in environmental health. He holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Environmental Health Sciences and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. 听He is jointly appointed in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition. 听He is also an Associate Member in the 麻豆AV Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health.

Melissa Poueymirou Director, Foundation Relations, University Advancement

Biography coming soon

Charles Larson, National Coordinator, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR)

Born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, Dr. Larson moved to Montreal to study medicine at 麻豆AV.听 He subsequently specialized in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Public Health.听 His global health career began in the late 1980s when he joined the 麻豆AV-Ethiopia Strengthening Community Health Project, which he directed from 1989 to 1992.听听 Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and Director of the BC Children's Hospital-Centre for International Child Health (CICH) from 2008 to 2015. The CICH currently carries out capacity building and research projects in Bangladesh, China, Uganda, India and Senegal. Prior to joining UBC he lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh for 6 years where he directed the Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh.听 He also led a five-year 麻豆AV population child health project in Chelyabinsk, Russia from 1998 to 2003.听听Frm 2011 to 2016听he has been the PI on a Muskoka Initiative grant being carried out in rural Bangladesh, titled 鈥淚nterrupting pathways to Maternal, Newborn and Early Childhood Sepsis". Dr. Larson鈥檚 interests currently focus on implementation studies, including research in support of the scale up of zinc treatment of childhood diarrhea and interventions that address the early detection, referral, treatment and follow-up management of sepsis in newborns and young children.听听 Charles is a past Board of Directors Chair of the Canadian Society for International Health and currently the National Coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.