Theissued its report on a new generation of reforms a century after the landmark Flexner Report of 1910 on medical education. More than a decade after its release, the 91社区 School of Population and Global Health convened a Forum entitled: Nurturing Leadership for Health: are universities stepping up? The objective of the Forum was to revisit the recommendations of the Commission in the context of an ongoing pandemic amidst other rapid global change and focus on the extent to which universities are nurturing leadership in health.
Over the course of an afternoon, 14 speakers representing a very diverse array of professional and geographic perspectives provided a rich set of reflections and recommendations.听
Read the Leadership Forum Synthesis with the speakers' remarks
Meet the speakers
Keynote speakers
Julio Frenk,听President, University of Miami
Lincoln Chen, former President China Medical Board
Drs. Frenk and Chen served as co-chairs for the听Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century
Panelists
Agnes Binagwaho, Vice-Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
Colleen M. Flood, University Research Chair & Director, Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa
Richard Masse, Conseiller m茅dical strat茅gique, Cabinet du directeur national de sant茅 publique et sous-ministre, Minist猫re de la Sant茅 et des Services sociaux du Qu茅bec
Ariel Pablos- Mendez,听Professor of Medicine, Columbia University and former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID
Andrew Nevin, Partner and Chief Economist, PwC Nigeria
Francis Omaswa, Director, African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation Uganda
Andr茅 Picard, Journalist and Columnist, The Globe and Mail
Srinath Reddy, President Public Health Foundation of India
Samir Shaheen-Hussain,听Pediatric Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 91社区
Gail Tomblin Murphy, Vice-President, Research, Innovation & Discovery and Chief Nurse Executive, Nova Scotia Health
Fatoumata Traore, President, Foundation for Health and Environment, Mali
Hiba Zafran, Assistant Professor, School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, 91社区
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