Kevin Chan

Education

He received a Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Science

Career

He previously worked as an emergency physician at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. (Honorary) from the University of Toronto, an Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa, and an Master in Public Health From Harvard University. In 1994, Doctor Chan co-founded the Student University Network for Social and International Health or Reseau Etudiants Universitaire Pour la Sociale et Sante Internationale.

He also helped found the Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Ottawa and the Centre for International Health at the University of British Columbia.

In 2001-2002, he was co-chair of the Canadian Society for International Health, and between 2001-2003 he was President of the International Child Health Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society. He has also been a recipient of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship.

Chan has worked extensively in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, as well as in complex humanitarian emergency situations in Rwanda and Kosovo. Kevin is the brother of Arnold Chan.

Achievements

• He was the recipient of the Chris Krogh award Prize from the Global Health Education Consortium (now Consortium of University for Global Health). He is the winner of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University in 2002. In 2003, he won the Yale Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholarship in International Health. He is a co-founder of KidECare, a pediatric urgent care clinic in Toronto.

Membership

He is currently an executive member of the Section on International Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics.