Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Samir Gouin is a medical student at McGill University. He was a Global Health Scholar in 2021 when he worked on the Children’s Worlds Survey with Dr. Ruiz-Casares. He has also worked as an MJGH editor and as part of the STOP TB Partnership. He hopes to continue learning about children’s health worldwide and to integrate advocacy and research into his future practice.
Maya Ardon is a fourth-year undergraduate student at McGill University studying Environment and Geo-information Science (GIS). Her primary global health interests include disease ecology, one health, and the public health impacts of natural disasters. She is excited to combine experience in writing and editing with interests in improving health equity, advancing knowledge surrounding – and preventing risks of – zoonotic diseases, and advocating for global health considerations amidst the climate crisis.
Sarah Fallah is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Desautels Faculty of Management. She is interested in the strategic aspect of Telehealth in bridging the healthcare gap in underserved and remote areas, offering care to vulnerable populations who may face barriers to access, and aiding in disease surveillance and early detection of outbreaks. Sarah would like to pursue global health management in the future and explore strategies to limit practitioner churn.
Kimia Gharagozloo is a third-year undergraduate student at McGill University studying Honours Pharmacology. Her interests lie in global health equity, health policy, and disease prevention. She hopes to use research and advocacy to highlight global health solutions that address disparities in access to healthcare and essential medicines worldwide.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Gabrielle Lalonde-LeBlond is a graduate student in the Master of Nursing program, CNF scholar and recipient of awards from the OIIQ, CIHR & MES/BCI. Her research focuses on leveraging mHealth to improve access to respite care services for families with palliative care needs. She is interested in health literacy, nursing informatics, access to healthcare & the ways nurses engage with global health efforts.
Kaiwen (Coco) Zhang is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Dietetics at McGill University. She is interested in the intersection between nutrition and global health and seeks to understand the full range of malnutrition in vulnerable populations worldwide. Coco would like to pursue global health journalism in the future.
PRevious EDITORS-in-Chief
2022-2023
Miriam Gladstone is a fourth year medical student with an interest in understanding the social and biological determinants of global maternal and child health. She holds a Masters degree in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 2020 she was awarded the Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship during which she reported on resiliency and challenges faced by Inuit midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021-2022
Shashika Bandara is a doctoral student focusing on global health policy and health governance at McGill University. His doctoral thesis is on the political economy of tobacco control, production policies, and its impact on health in Zimbabwe. He holds a master's in global health from Duke University and is formerly a policy associate at the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute.
2020-2021
Amanda Marcinowska is a graduate student in Family Medicine at McGill University. Her research focuses on Primary Health Care in underserved regions of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to graduate studies, Amanda completed a Bachelor of Science honors degree in Biology for Health Sciences and Psychology at the University of Toronto.
2019-2020
Claire Gapare is a second year Masters of Science in Public Health student with a bachelor of science honors degree in Neuroscience. Her passion is promote and facilitate universal health coverage in low and middle income countries, particularly, Sub-Saharan Africa. She hopes to shine light on global health issues through journalism, research and advocacy, and to communicate global health issues in ways that get the right stakeholders invested.
2018-2019
Clare Fogarty is a second year medical student with a bachelor’s in Honours Microbiology & Immunology and a minor in the History & Philosophy of Science. Her interest in biomedicine and bioethics intersect with her passion for public and global health, where she hopes to pursue work in infectious disease control and health in relation to human rights. Clare previously acted as a Co-Editor in 2016-2017, and now serves as the Editor-in-Chief for 2018-2019 after being selected as a McGill Global Health Programs Outreach Scholar.
2017-2018
Patrick Bidulka is a recent graduate from the undergraduate pharmacology program at McGill University. He worked at McGill Global Health Programs for 5 months, where he was initiated into the professional global health arena. Patrick hopes to make significant impacts in the field of global health in the near future.
2016-2017
Madlen Nash is an honours microbiology & immunology student. Her global health interests are infectious disease prevention and diagnosis in high-burden, low-resource settings and improving access to essential medicines and diagnostics. She is passionate about health and social justice.
2015-2017
Matt Malon is a 3L law student. He holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also acts as Strategic Planning and Solicitations Editor for the McGill Journal of Law and Health. He is interested in fertility law and intellectual property law.