Dr Raywat Deonandan is an epidemiologist and science communicator specializing in global health. His research involves, most prominently, the emerging global industry of so-called reproductive tourism, along with the creative analysis of administrative data, the epidemiology and ethics of assisted reproductive technologies and the exploration of novel avenues of medical education.
Dr. Deonandan embraces new media to engage in public education. He is the co-host of the science education podcast Science Monkey and the creator of a series of online epidemiology educational videos in partnership with private industry. He also writes regularly for the lay media, including a regular blog with the Huffington Post Canada.
Dr. Deonandan is the founder and executive editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences, a peer-reviewed science journal run by students. In 2014, he founded Intanjible Press, to provide inexpensive e-textbooks to low income learners. And in 2011, he founded the HSS Buddies Program, an initiative to reduce anxiety among new university students by connecting them with advanced students for social support in light of increasing campus emotional stress.
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