Board Member, GRID CANADA
Dr. Jennifer Wilson (MD CCFP (EM) DIM & PHH) has practiced family and emergency medicine for 14 years. She has a Diploma in International Medicine and Public Health, and is a Part-Time Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of Toronto.
In 2004, Dr. Wilson received a challenge that our world needs family physicians to engage in the global health arena. Since then, Jennifer has led six international health care teams to GRID and NEA’s project site in Carpenter, Northern Ghana. As part of her ongoing professional development, she completed a two-week learning exchange placement in a hospital in Northern Ghana in 2013. She also led an intensive training for 30 community-based midwives and nurses in Ghana on the topic of neonatal resuscitation.
Dr. Wilson has been on the board since 2009. She and her husband, Graham, live in Uxbridge, Ontario with their five children.