Dr. Jane Philpott
Dr. Jane Philpott is Chief of the Department of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital and Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Family & Community Medicine. She is Lead Physician of the Health for All Family Health Team in Markham, Ontario.
Dr. Philpott studied medicine at the University of Western Ontario. She completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Ottawa; a Tropical Medicine fellowship in Toronto; and a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Philpott worked in Niger Republic, West Africa from 1989 to 1998 where she practiced general medicine and developed a training program for village health workers.
She is the founder of the “Give a Day to World AIDS” movement which started in 2004.
Since 2004, Give a Day has raised over 3.5 million dollars to help those affected by HIV in Africa. Dr. Philpott is the Family Medicine lead in the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC). In this capacity she helped colleagues at Addis Ababa University to develop the first training program for Family Medicine in Ethiopia that started in February 2013.
Dr. Philpott has been invited to speak in a wide range of settings over several years because of her advocacy work in global health and social justice. She has effectively inspired thousands of Canadians to join her in responding to the AIDS pandemic. Her story has been told in newspapers and magazines and on radio and television.
She and her husband have four children.
Dr. Jane Philpott is Chief of the Department of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital and Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Family & Community Medicine. She is Lead Physician of the Health for All Family Health Team in Markham, Ontario.
Dr. Philpott studied medicine at the University of Western Ontario. She completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Ottawa; a Tropical Medicine fellowship in Toronto; and a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Philpott worked in Niger Republic, West Africa from 1989 to 1998 where she practiced general medicine and developed a training program for village health workers.
She is the founder of the “Give a Day to World AIDS” movement which started in 2004.
Since 2004, Give a Day has raised over 3.5 million dollars to help those affected by HIV in Africa. Dr. Philpott is the Family Medicine lead in the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC). In this capacity she helped colleagues at Addis Ababa University to develop the first training program for Family Medicine in Ethiopia that started in February 2013.
Dr. Philpott has been invited to speak in a wide range of settings over several years because of her advocacy work in global health and social justice. She has effectively inspired thousands of Canadians to join her in responding to the AIDS pandemic. Her story has been told in newspapers and magazines and on radio and television.
She and her husband have four children.
