First Annual Global Child Health Unit Research Day
Facilitator Bios - Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Dr. Khalid Aziz
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Canada
Workshop 1 - Essential Care for Every Baby and Essential Care for Small Babies
Tuesday - Wednesday, August 6, 2016 | 08:00 - 17:00
Session Room: Conference room 1, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Dr. Aziz received his medical degree (MBBS) from Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London University, and received his BA Hons and MA in Neurophysiology from Cambridge University. He completed his Family Practice training in the United Kingdom before training in Pediatrics in Harrow and Oxford, England. He trained as a neonatologist in Edmonton, Alberta. Dr. Aziz worked at the Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (1996-2007); currently he is working at the University of Alberta. Dr. Aziz completed his MEd (Information Technology) at Memorial University in 2011.
Dr. Nalini Singhal
Prof. Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Canada
Prof. Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Canada
Workshop 1 - Essential Care for Every Baby and Essential Care for Small Babies
Tuesday - Wednesday, September 6, 2016 | 08:00 - 17:00
Session Room: Conference room 1, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Dr. Nalini Singhal received her medical degree (MBBS) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Dr. Singhal is a Professor at the University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and a staff Neonatologist for Alberta Health Services. Dr. Singhal was the Associate Editor of Helping Babies Breathe, an international program for meeting the millennium development goal 4 of decreasing neonatal mortality in the world. This program is now being implemented in over 60 countries and has started to demonstrate a fall in neonatal mortality. Dr. Singhal is the Associate Editor for the Essential Newborn Care program and the Editor of Essential Care of Small Babies. Dr. Singhal is the technical lead for Healthy Child Uganda, which is helping decrease under 2 mortality in South Western Uganda, and co-investigator for a large grant to scale up Maternal Child Health (MAMATOTO) in Tanzania.
Keynote Speaker - Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Dr Bhutta is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children
(SickKids), Toronto, Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, at the Aga Khan University, unique joint appointments. He also holds adjunct professorships at several leading Universities globally including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Tufts University (Boston), Boston University School of Public Health, University of Alberta as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan and was the Founding Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2003-2014. Dr Bhutta was a member of the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG) appointed by the UN Secretary General for monitoring global progress in maternal and child health MDGs (2011-2015). He represented the global academic and research organizations on the Global Alliance for Vaccines and
Immunizations (Gavi) Board and serves on its program and policy committee. Dr Bhutta is the co-Chair of the Global Countdown for 2015 Initiative from 2006-2017, the co-Chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) and the Chairman of the Coalition of Centers in Global Child Health with its secretariat based at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
