Anna Banerji MD, MPH, FRCPC, DTM&H, O.Ont

Dr. Anna Banerji, the new Director of Global and Indigenous Health at Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, is a paediatric infectious, tropical disease specialist and global health specialist. She has trained in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Harvard University, where she completed her MPH in International Health. In 2007 she created the Immigrant Health and Infectious Disease Clinic, a clinic for immigrant and refugee children. In 2009 she created the Canadian Refugee Health Conference which evolved with their American counter parts to become North American Refugee Health Conference in 2012. Currently she is creating the inaugural Indigenous Health Conference: Challenging Health Inequities.

She has been studying lower respiratory tract infections for the past 19 years. Her publications among Inuit children have resulted in changes to the Canadian Paediatric Society guidelines for RSV prevention. Dr. Banerji has travelled extensively around the world including work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Dr. Banerji uses a human rights framework for her work, research and education and is often an advocate for vulnerable populations. She has won several awards including the “promising graduate” for Harvard School of Public Health in 2003, the U of T Educational Excellence for Community Care Award in 2008 and the Canadian Public Health Association Certificate of Merit in 2010. In January 2012, she was inducted into the Order of Ontario.