Andrea A. Cortinois
Co-DirectorOver the past 30 years, Dr. Cortinois has worked as a journalist, researcher, teacher, and manager of health-related interventions on four continents, mainly in low-income countries. He has earned a Master of Public Health with a global health emphasis in the UK and a PhD from the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where he teaches courses in migration and health and global public health. Over the past several years, Dr. Cortinois has worked on applied research projects focusing on the use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reach marginalized population groups, both in Canada and globally. His research agenda focuses on the links between globalization, migration, and health and on global human movements in the Anthropocene.
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Denise GastaldoCo-DirectorDr. Gastaldo is an Associate Professor at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Director of the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She has been a visiting professor in several countries, including Spain, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Australia. For the last 20 years she has worked internationally to build capacity for health research and to develop critical and equitable approaches to produce transformative knowledge and achieve health for all. Her research focuses on the health consequences of social inequity. Methodologically, Dr. Gastaldo favours community-based and participatory-action approaches. She is the author of over 100 publications for academic and community audiences.
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Mariajosé AguileraMemberMs. Aguilera holds a Master of Public Health, with a specialization in health promotion and an emphasis in global health, from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in international development studies and economics from McGill University. She has over seven years of research, project management, and communications experience in the academic and non-governmental sector, working in Canada, the United States, Ecuador, and Peru. She has also worked as a freelance editor, specializing in editing support to researchers with English as a second language. Her research interests include the mental health effects of separation for migrant families; health effects of climate change and environmental degradation; and the health impact of Canadian mining projects in Latin America.
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Celeste Bilbao-Joseph
Celeste Bilbao-Joseph is the HIV/AIDS Mental Health Clinical Counsellor for the HIV/AIDS Prevention Program at the Center for the Spanish Speaking Peoples. She has over 18 years of experience in the mental health field. As a Clinical Psychologist in Argentina, her home country, she worked in private practice and was also a psychology professor at several universities. She currently specializes in HIV/AIDS/STI prevention and crisis and trauma counselling, also providing education and training on the sexual and mental health of the migrant LGBTQ population in Toronto. For the last 10 years Ms. Bilbao-Joseph has been serving migrants and refugees from 22 Spanish-speaking countries, offering a variety of services (psychotherapy, educational workshops, and research). Her area of expertise and interest is the intersection between migration, gender identity, and mental health. Celeste is also the founder and director of Trans Latinas Ontario (TLO), the first group in Canada of its kind, supporting Latino trans women. Ms.Bilbao-Joseph has participated in several national and international ethno-racial community-based research projects. Her current research interests are global mental health; the relationship between social justice, power imbalance, and ethno-privilege; the right to health equity of migrants and refugees; and community-based participatory interventions that have a real impact in vulnerable populations’ lives.
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Marium Jamil
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Nazik Nurelhuda Suleiman
Nazik, a research associate at the Faculty of Dentistry (University of Toronto), is currently studying the burden of oral diseases in newly arrived humanitarian migrants in Ontario and Quebec. She holds a PhD in Community Dentistry from the University of Bergen (Norway) and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (Royal College of Physicians, UK) and Fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research Institute (USA). She has a decade of working experience in public health practice and research and a demonstrated history of working in higher education, government sector, and the World Health Organization. She is also an associate professor at the University of Khartoum in Sudan where she teaches health policy and governance. Nazik was able to branch out in her career from dental public health to the promotion and protection of general human health and has developed interests in health system development, dental education, migration health, and social justice.
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Megan Parry
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Frances Recknor
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