Steering Committee Members
Aaron Rostas
Aaron Rostas is a second year medical student at the University of Toronto. After attending an MRG event in Toronto, Aaron along with several other students was inspired to start a student MRG chapter at U of T. Along with fellow steering committee member Brad MacIntosh, he currently co-chairs this student group. Previous involvement in organizations such as Amnesty International have helped foster his growing interest in social justice, particularly within the areas of health and human rights. Although still searching out his career path, Aaron hopes to continue to pursue these interests and become involved in health on a global level.
Dr. Tomislav Svoboda
Tomislav Svoboda is a family physician at St. Michael's Hospital and his clinical work is conducted at the Seaton House Annex Harm Reduction Program. Other activities include finishing his fifth and final year of the U of T Community Medicine Residency program, being Medical Director at Seaton House and completing his PhD in epidemiology. Dr. Svoboda's PhD thesis is entitled 'Measuring the "Reduction" in Harm Reduction: Evaluating the Annex Harm Reduction Program for High Risk Homeless Alcohol Dependent Men'. He is committed to positive social change and living in a way that's consistent with his values. In addition to his current work around poverty, addictions and homelessness other interests lie in broad areas of social justice and environmentalism. His heroes include Gandhi, Einstein, Chomsky, Ralph Nader, certain founding members of the MRG, and people I work with at Seaton House. His New Year's resolution is to be on time...!
Dr Yves Talbot
Yves Talbot is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community
Medicine and Health Administration at the University of Toronto
and Director of the International Programs in the department of Family
and Community Medicine. He has been involved in South America since
August 1995 in programs of Capacity Building in Primary Care. The programs
are aimed at training teams of professionals working in different cities
of Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Dr Talbot has served on the Ontario
(PECCCAR) Committee for Primary Health Care Reform and has a particular
interest in the role of primary care and questions of Equity.
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