Register today for the opportunity to hear Professor Binagwaho address Rwanda's recent key advancements in healthcare, the vision of the University of Global Health Equity, and how public and private institutions can achieve equity in global health education and practice.

This free and accredited webinar will be presented in French, however participants will be able to ask their questions in English.

Webinar: Parvenir à l’équité sanitaire : Une conversation avec la vice-chancelière de l’University of Global Health Equity au Rwanda (Achieving Health Equity: A Conversation with the Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda)
Date: Friday, November 27, 2020
Time: 11:30 – 12:30pm EST

Registration: Register here (Update: Registration now closed)

As the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Outline the key advancements made in Rwanda’s health care system in the past 20 years 
2. Describe the vision of the University of Global Health Equity and how it addresses the social determinants of health
3. Identify how public and private institutions can achieve equity in global health education and practice 

Speaker biographies: 

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD currently resides in Rwanda and is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE). She is a Rwandan pediatrician who returned to Rwanda in July of 1996, two years after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Since then, (1996-2016), she has provided clinical care in the public sector and served the Rwandan Health Sector in high-level government positions, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and lastly as the Minister of Health for 5 years.

Professor Binagwaho specializes in emergency pediatrics, neonatology, and the treatment of HIV/AIDS. She completed her MD at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and her MA in Pediatrics at the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from Dartmouth College and earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Rwanda College of Medicine. 

Professor Binagwaho co-founded the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), an initiative of Partners In Health, which focuses on changing how health care is delivered around the world by training global health professionals who strive to deliver more equitable, quality health services for all.She currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, and as a member of multiple Advisory Boards and Boards of Directors including the Rockefeller Foundation Board. She is a member of a number of international working groups and task forces in global health for the United Nations and independent organizations, sits on the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals and serves on multiple scientific commissions. 

Previously, she co-chaired the Millennium Development Goal Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS and Access to Essential Medicines for the Secretary-General of the United Nations under the leadership of Professor Jeffrey Sachs (MGGs). Professor Binagwaho also co-chaired the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA) (2006–09) and founded the Rwandan Pediatric Society, chairing it until 2019. Since 2016, she has been a member of the American National Academy of Medicine and since 2017 a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. In 2015, Professor Binagwaho received the annual Roux Prize and Ronald McDonald House Charities Award of Excellence. She was also named among the 100 Most Influential African Women for 2020.

Professor Binagwaho is currently a senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Pediatrics at UGHE, as well as an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Her academic engagements include research in implementation sciences and human rights to health, health services delivery systems strengthening, HIV/AIDS, and pediatric care. She has published over 210 peer-reviewed articles.

Professor Sanni Yaya, M.Sc., Ph.D., ADM.A., F.CIM., MPM

Professor Yaya is career academic and accomplished researcher. He is Full Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa and holds the Senghor Research Chair in Health and Development. Prior to assuming the position of Vice-President International and Francophonie, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He has also held visiting appointments at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and New York University. He is currently Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Imperial College London in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Yaya’s service to the University of Ottawa is significant and extensive. He has a rich and varied experience that spans many aspects of university life. In addition to being a dedicated teacher, he has held positions responsible for student affairs and coordinating academic programs, and has extensive experience elaborating partnerships in the community both at home and abroad.

He first arrived at the University of Ottawa as an Assistant Professor, after holding a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University. Gradually rising through the ranks, Professor Yaya has assumed leadership roles that have helped strengthen our institution. He became Assistant Director and Chair of the Undergraduate programs within the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences and served as Acting Director, Associate Dean of the same School. He later joined the Faculty of Social Sciences in the context of the implementation of the health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs) and was appointed as Director and Associate Dean of its School of International Development and Global Studies. Professor Yaya has also chaired the President’s Committee that produced the University of Ottawa’s Internationalization Strategy and is currently the co-chair of the joint APUO-uOttawa committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

His leadership has been shaped by important priorities: fostering global citizenship and training future leaders so they can develop an awareness of the world as a whole, supporting cutting-edge research and innovation so to address the most pressing and complex societal challenges. Dr. Yaya’s is known as a bridge builder and his work is esteemed by his academic and industry colleagues. He is a distinguished health economist and global health expert known for his influential studies of maternal and child health around the world. His path-breaking work and scholarship has been noted for its careful integration of theory and practice, its attention to important social concerns, and its examination of systems of privilege and discrimination. His research is widely cited and has been disseminated in leading academic journals such as Nature Medicine and The Lancet. He has authored, co-authored and edited 22 books, 50 book chapters and over 200 peer-reviewed papers.

Professor Yaya has been involved with several journals over the last decade. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Reproductive Health, Associate Editor, Health Economics with BMJ Global Health, and Associate Editor with Globalization and Health to name a few. He is also the Director of the Series on Health and Society at the University of Ottawa Press. His awards and recognitions include the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research, the Faculty of Social Science Excellence in Research Award, the Socrate Excellence in Teaching Award from the Université Laval and was recently appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Sanni Yaya holds degrees in Sociology and Anthropology, Management and received his PhD in Economics and Public Policy from the joint doctoral program that brings together the four leading Montreal universities (HEC-Montreal, Concordia, UQAM, and McGill).

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This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 1 hours (credits are automatically calculated).

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 1 Mainpro+ credits.

Panel: 

• Dr. Darine El-Chaâr, Assistant Professor, OB GYN Department, uOttawa Faculty of Medicine
• Dr. Felipe Moretti, Assistant Professor, OB GYN Department, uOttawa Faculty of Medicine
• Dr. Hadeel Alenezi, 2nd year Clinical Fellow, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, uOttawa Faculty of Medicine
• Dr. Abdalmajed Eisa, 1st year Clinical Fellow, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, uOttawa Faculty of Medicine 

Moderator: Dr. Mark Walker, Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and Director, Faculty of Medicine International and Global Health Office. 

As the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify and briefly explain COVID-19 pregnancy implications
• Explain how to determine the in/effectiveness of vertical transmission with COVID-19 
• Identify the main CNS anomalies identified in Fetal Neurosonography
• Propose strategies for defect management for Cesarian Scar Niches
• Identify the risk factors with Placenta Accreta Spectrum and associated antenatal and delivery approaches to minimize risks

Panellist biographies:

Dr. Darine El-Chaâr

Dr. Darine El-Chaâr completed her Obstetrical and Gynecology residency at The Ottawa Hospital in 2012. In July of 2014, Darine completed her Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship training at the University of Toronto. Darine maintained a keen interest in obstetrical research and its impact on women's health. Darine joined the Maternal Fetal Medicine Department at The Ottawa Hospital as of July 2014. She has completed a Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2017. Current research initiatives include maternal health conditions and pregnancy outcomes, Caesarian Delivery by Maternal Request and Provincial outcomes, COVID-19 in pregnancy, Cannabis use in pregnancy, Obesity and Diabetes: maternal and neonatal obstetrical outcomes and interventions. She has secured funding through CIHR and has just submitted multiple grants to several grant agencies. She has had the opportunity to present some of her research at international conferences such as SMFM, ISUOG, SGI, CNPRM and SOGC. She is currently the program director for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship. She also holds the following awards: 

uOttawa Junior Research Chair Award – winner of Winter 2020 competition – awarded by the Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Chair Committee – unanimously selected as a ‘Standout’ among the applicants.

SOGC Academic Council’s Carl Nimrod Award – 2019 for excellence, commitment, innovation and leadership demonstrated in teaching knowledge, attitudes and skills to the next generation of MDs.

Dr. Felipe Moretti

Dr. Felipe Moretti's clinical areas of interest in Maternal Fetal Medicine include: the diagnosis and management of Placental Mediated Disease, Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder and Fetal Neurosonography.  Dr. Moretti currently run the Placenta Clinic at The Ottawa Hospital and was Co-investigator of this initiative during its development in 2014. The Fetal Neurosonography Protocols which he developed for The Ottawa Hospital have had a substantial impact on the advancement of this specialized area within OB/GYN ultrasound. On the research front, in collaboration with CHEO Neonatology and Pathology Department, projects are focus on “Placental pathologic lesions with significant recurrence risk and pregnancy/neonatal outcomes and Timing of Occurrence and Progress of Placental Abruption”.

Dr. Hadeel Alenezi 

Dr. Hadeel Alenezi is currently a second year Clinical Fellow in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine training program at the University of Ottawa. Prior to her fellowship training in Canada, Dr. Alenezi completed her Obstetrical and Gynecological degree from the Kuwait Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2017. Hadeel has a special interest in the areas of placenta disorders and multiple gestation. 

Dr. Abdalmajed Eisa

Dr. Abdalmajed Eisa is currently a first year Clinical Fellow in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) training program at the University of Ottawa. Subsequent this, Dr. Eisa completed an Advanced Obstetrical and Gynecological Ultrasound fellowship within the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Abdalmajed joins us from Saudi Arabia where he completed his Obstetrical and Gynecological training at the Abha Maternity & Children Hospital. 

Dr. Mark Walker

Dr. Mark Walker is a healthcare executive and current Chairman and Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital. His work in research has been as an epidemiologist, public health advocate and clinical trialist. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed articles and been awarded more than $15 million as Principal Investigator in research.  As well as being a highly respected clinician and researcher, Dr. Walker has a Masters in Health Care Management from Harvard University. 

His leadership roles include the previous Chairman of the Society of Investigators in Obstetrics and Gynecology of Canada, the Chair of the Perinatal Health Committee of the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Co-Chair of the Maternal Newborn Advisory Committee for the Province of Ontario. He is currently a Senior Scientist and the Scientific Director of the Better Outcomes Registry Network (BORN) and the Interim Director for the International and Global Health Office (IGHO) at the University of Ottawa. 

Dr. Walker's main research interests include health services, population health, and clinical studies in perinatology. Dr. Walker is the co-founder of the Obstetrics & Maternal Newborn Investigations (OMNI) Research Group, at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). OMNI lead research has contributed to understanding of pre-eclampsia, thrombophilia, multi-gestation, treatment of infertility and health services utilization. In 2016, Dr. Walker and Dr. Shi Wu Wen secured funding through a CIHR Foundation Grant totaling $9.7 million over 7 years. Included in the funding from this grant is the FACT 4 Child project along with many other research projects. Dr. Walker is internationally recognized for his research, medical leadership as well as health services and policy work.  

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This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 1.5 hours (credits are automatically calculated).

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ credits.

Webinar: Social Inequities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date: Friday, 23 October 2020
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm DST

Registration: Register here (Update: Registration now closed)

Panel:

• Katie Carr, Program Manager, Ottawa Neighbourhood Study
• Dr. Darlene Kitty, Director, Indigenous Program of the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine
• Suzanne Obiorah, Director, Primary Health Care and Regional Programs

Moderator:
Dr. Raywat Deonandan, Epidemiologist and Associate Professor, uOttawa Faculty of Health Sciences

As the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the impact of COVID-19 on the social inequities affecting marginalized populations
• Explain how to improve data to inform policy change
• Identify measures to advance equity and improve the pandemic response

Panellist biographies

Katie Carr

Katie Carr is an MBA candidate at Telfer’s School of Management and is the Program Manager for the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study (ONS). ONS strives to better understand the physical and social pathways by which neighbourhoods in Ottawa affect our health and well-being, and to provide citizens in Ottawa with facts that support evidence-based decision-making. Katie has 8 years of experience supporting data-based decision making in the community. She has a passion for data analytics & visualization, and using these to understand and help address social inequities. She’s collaborating with Ottawa Public Health to provide neighbourhood-level maps for COVID-19 to assess the impact of the pandemic on neighbourhoods, and to explore the social and structural inequities that may contribute to the disproportionate effect of the pandemic on some neighbourhoods.

Dr. Darlene Kitty

Dr. Darlene Kitty is a Cree woman and family physician practicing in Chisasibi, the largest of 9 Cree communities in northern Quebec since 2006. She is the Director of the Indigenous Program at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, leading the efforts to recruit, admit and support of Indigenous students to become physicians. She is involved in Indigenous health curriculum, including academic activities and Grand Rounds in Indigenous health as Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She has published and contributed to several articles in Indigenous health and has made presentations at many conferences over her career.

Suzanne Obiorah

Suzanne Obiorah is the Director of Primary Care and Regional Programs at Somerset West Community Health Centre.  With her work strongly anchored in health equity, she is actively engaged in a variety of regional and provincial leadership tables aimed towards narrowing health disparities in racialized communities. Alongside Black leaders in Ottawa and Toronto, Suzanne is working to build a national health equity agenda for the African, Carribean, and Black community.  Most recently, Suzanne co founded the Ottawa Black Mental Health Coalition, bringing key stakeholders and community partners together to create a regional mental health strategy for the Black community Ottawa.  Her goal- to achieve a more equitable mental health system, to decrease the number of people and families in Black communities suffering in silence, and improve access to culturally appropriate mental health resources.

Dr. Raywat Deonandan

Dr. Raywat Deonandan (www.deonandan.com) is an Epidemiologist and Science Communicator, specializing in Global Health. His research involves the creative analysis of administrative data, the epidemiology and ethics of assisted reproductive technologies, most prominently the emerging global industry of so-called reproductive tourism, and the exploration of novel avenues of medical education.

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This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 1.5 hours (credits are automatically calculated).

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ credits.

Register now for this week's webinar to be held on Wednesday, April 22 from 11:30 am -12:30 pm : "Global Health in Times of Pandemics: Ensuring Equity in the COVID-19 Policy Response" with Dr. Ronald Labonté, Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity and Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa. (Update: Registration is now closed). 

IGHO: We build bridges locally and around the world.

Ronald Labonté is Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity and Professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. His research is on the health equity impacts of diverse globalization processes, most recently governance of infectious diseases. His most recent books are Health Equity in a Globalizing Era (Oxford University Press, 2019); and Trade Agreements and Public Health (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020). He is Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal, Globalization and Health, is active with the People’s Health Movement, and has worked extensively with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations.

Learning objectives: 

1. To briefly define the impact of COVID19 on the Social determinants of Health
2. To describe the approach of One Health principles in the COVID-19 response
3. To identify how the global community can foster an equitable approach to the pandemic

Webinar recording (via Adobe Connect)

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 1.0 hour (credits are automatically calculated).

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 1.00 Mainpro+ credits.

Dr. Mark Walker is a healthcare executive and the current Chairman and Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital. His work in research has been as an epidemiologist, public health advocate and clinical trialist. He has published more than 330 peer reviewed articles and been awarded more than $15 million as Principal Investigator in research.  As well as being a highly respected clinician and researcher, Dr. Walker holds a Masters in Epidemiology from The University of Toronto and a Masters in Health Care Management from Harvard University.

Learning objectives: 

• To describe what COVID 19 is and the impact of globalization on its spread
• To identify how we leveraged our global resources and partnership to prepare for the pandemic
• To explain how the global community of scientists will work together for treatments and a vaccine.

Summary of Presentation (pdf, 4,193.29 KB)

Webinar recording (via Adobe Connect)

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 1.0 hour (credits are automatically calculated).

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 1.00 Mainpro+ credits.

Register now for the first webinar in the series, “Peer support and resilience in times of COVID-19” with Rachel Thibeault, Occupational Therapist in the field of Global Health and former professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Follow @uOttawaIGHOMed and stay tuned for further news on upcoming webinars throughout the month of April. (Update: Registration is now closed).

IGHO: We build bridges locally and around the world.

An occupational therapist who also holds a Ph.D. in psychology, Rachel specializes in Community-Based Rehabilitation, psychological resilience, and peer support in vulnerable populations. For the past 40 years, as a clinician or as part of her teaching and research career at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Rachel has worked worldwide in complex contexts such as war zones and hard-to-access areas. In 2013, she was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Canada and, in 2015, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Society of International Health and an Honorary Degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Now a consultant on resilience and psychological wellbeing, she provides training in a broad range of settings, from medical agencies and governmental organizations to student bodies and cancer groups, to name a few.

Learning objectives:

1. Briefly define the bases of a psychological support/resilience program in times of crisis that combine:
   1. Peer support
   2. Regular use of psychological vital signs (brief ranges of mindfulness)
   3. The neuroscientific approach to compassion
2. Illustrate the concepts with examples and questions
3. Offer simple protocols to guide the process

Summary of Presentation (pdf, 610.36 KB)

Webinar recording (via Adobe Connect) - French session 

Webinar recording (via Adobe Connect) - English session

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 1.0 hour (credits are automatically calculated).

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development for up to 1.00 Mainpro+ credits.