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Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
Dr. Paula Braveman is a Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco. For nearly 40 years, Dr. Braveman has published extensively on health equity and its social and structural determinants, including racism, and has brought attention to these issues in the U.S. and internationally. During the 1990s she collaborated with WHO staff in Geneva to develop a global initiative on equity in health and health care. She was the research director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s commission on the social determinants of health in the U.S. She has published extensively on the role of racism in maternal and infant health. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with local, state, federal, and international agencies to see rigorous research translated into practice with the goal of achieving greater health equity. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2002. Her book “The Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities” was recently published by Oxford University Press.
Andrew Pinto, MD CCFP FRCPC MSc
Dr. Andrew Pinto is the founding and current director of the Upstream Lab, a research team focused on tackling social determinants of health, population health management, and using data science to enable Learning Health Systems. He holds the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Upstream Prevention. He is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist and family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UPLEARN), the lead for clinical research of Ontario’s POPLAR network, and the founder of the Canadian Primary Care Trials Network.
