Shafi Bhuiyan

Dr. Shafi Bhuiyan MBBS, MPH, MBA, FRSPH, 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 he 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, 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 the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, 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, and program lead of the innovative Internationally Trained Medical Doctors (ITMD) Bridging Program at Ryerson University, which provides ITMDs with training to transition into healthcare jobs. Dr. Bhuiyan out going Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. He is a winner of the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians award for civic engagement and leadership in Canada. Dr. Bhuiyan is a passionate lions leader and champion in community services, currently Chair Board of Directors, BBNC, Scarborough south west, Toronto, ON.