MAJOR PRIORITIES AND PROGRAMS
Below are our ‘selected’ priorities and key activities/programs. This is our focus and we are determined to accomplish our goal to advance the global health contribution from the University of Toronto; to enable it to meet its potential in enhancing the lives of those in the developing world.

a. HIV/AIDS Initiative - Africa was initiated two years ago, now has the involvement of 30+ UofT faculty and students, has program development in nine sub-Saharan countries with partners in universities, government and NGOs, which are all linked with a knowledge network.

b. Cambodia Field Station for Primary Health Care Development (where we currently have one full-time UofT staff, two local staff and eight visiting UofT students and one resident from the USA for training and research and the development of sustainable models of primary health care in low resource settings. It is in its second year of functioning after two years of development work.

c. Advocacy and communication strategies: e.g. the CIH Annual Conference on Global Health Research (every Spring) with the John R. Evans Lectureship in International Health Research; World AIDS Day (WAD) Events on December 1 ; and other public lectures and events; our website (http://intlhealth.med.utoronto.ca); our Annual Report ; periodic newsletters, etc.

d. Continuing to build global health curriculum and teaching programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels (e.g.: mainstreaming of global health in the undergraduate Medical curriculum; new Masters and PhD programs in Global Health in the Dept of Public Health Sciences (PHS); a new undergraduate course in the Health Studies Program and a proposal to start a new class in the Human Biology Program, both in the Faculty of Arts and Science; global drug policy teaching in the Faculty of Pharmacy; Fellowship in International Emergency Medicine; etc.)

e. Facilitating overseas electives for medical and other students and residents, mostly from the UofT but also from other Canadian and US universities.

f. Facilitating the initiation of new global health programs and the growth of existing global health programs in the Faculty of Medicine and elsewhere in the UofT (in research, education and creative professional activities).

g. Development of the Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit within the CIH, presently slated as part of the HIV/AIDS Initiative in Africa

h. Building a strong, connected and coordinated global health program/network at the UofT and the affiliated teaching hospitals (with new global health programs at St. Michael’s Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University Health Network and Hospital for Sick Children)

i. Maintaining a strong global health network with colleagues in Canada, USA and abroad in universities, government, multilateral (UN) organizations, international financial institutions (IFIs), and private sectors organizations. Included here also is our “Ottawa Strategy” an planned effort to reach senior decision makers in the Government of Canada, particularly Health Canada and CIDA

Centre for International Health Monitoring and Evaluation Unit  .