Kevin C. Kain, MD, FRCPC
Director, Global HealthDr. Kain is a specialist in global infectious diseases, microbiology, travel and tropical medicine. He received his medical degree (cum laude) from the University of Western Ontario, undertook his residency training at the University of British Columbia, and post-doctoral research training as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Immunology, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington DC. Dr. Kain is the Director, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network (UHN) - Toronto General Hospital; the Director, Global Health, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto; Director, The Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine at the UHN-Toronto General Hospital; a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Parasitology. Dr. Kain has worked extensively in the tropics and sub-tropics including New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar, Honduras, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia and the Amazon basin. Dr Kain was profiled by TIME magazine as one of “Canada’s Best in Medicine”. He also received the: Distinguished Service Award, Global Health Education Consortium, University of California (2006) and John Evans Lectureship in Global Health (2006). He has served as chairperson on Health Canada’s Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Malaria Foundation, Board member of the Programme for Appropriate Technology (PATH) Canada, and as a consultant to many organizations including the World Health Organization, Red Cross, Canadian Blood Services, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.