Dr.Shafi U Bhuiyan
MBBS, MPH, MBA, PhD
Inaugural Board of Director, Canadian Association for Global Health
Dr. Shafi Bhuiyan MBBS, MPH, MBA, PhD is an award-winning faculty member and an internationally recognized–academic/professional leader in global health training, research and education initiatives, with diverse experience in both developed and developing countries. After finishing medical college at SSMC Dhaka, he worked as the founding liaison officer of maternal and child health research and training institute in Bangladesh where Dr. Bhuiyan focused on capacity building training of health professionals. Following completion of PhD in human sciences- he worked as JSPS Post-doctoral scientist and faculty at Osaka University, Japan; ASEAN Institute of Health Development- AIHD, Mahidol University Thailand; University of Health Sciences Bangladesh. In 2010 Dr. Bhuiyan emigrated to Canada where he began a new career focused on how equity informed approaches can improve both health services and health care training. Over the next several years Dr. Bhuiyan moved through successively more senior positions so that today he is a faculty member at both Toronto Metropolitan University in the Department of community services and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T.
Throughout his career focus has been on improving the way we deploy and refine global health resources – whether guidelines or training programs – to improve health system performance and the equity of health system performance in local and global contexts. Dr. Bhuiyan a co-creator of Pilot Masters of Sciences – MScCH program for internationally educated health professionals at DLSPH, U of T and he is a co-founder, academic director and program manager of the innovative Internationally Trained Medical Doctors (ITMD) Bridging Program at Ryerson University, which provides ITMDs with training to transition into non-licensed health care research & management positions. Dr. Bhuiyan outgoing Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research and also Chair, Board of Directors, Birchmount Bluffs Neighborhood Centre [BBNC] Scarborough South West, Toronto ON. He also served Lions clubs international District A711 GTA, ON as District Chair- Diabetes Awareness, International Youth Exchange and University Campus Lions. He is an RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award finalist, and a winner of the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians award for civic engagement and leadership in Canada.
Specialties: Global Health Management, MNCH-RH/FP, International Health Development/ Global Health Education and Research, Partnership Development, International Cooperation, Higher Educational Program Development, Program Operations and Management etc., Clinical Public Health Development, Urban Health, Health Promotion and Health System Strengthening and Policy improvement through evidence-based practice. MCH Handbook Development and Utilization in the world to ensure no one left behind.
https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/shafi-bhuiyan-phd/