Professor Suzanne Sicchia is an award winning Associate Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Health & Society, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She also serves as the Associate Dean Undergraduate Programs & Curriculum (ADUPC), for the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She has a PhD in Medical Science, a MHSc in health promotion, and a MSc in social theory and health from the former Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Before joining UTSC, she worked as a Research Associate in the ‘Global Health’ and ‘Violence and Health’ units of the former Centre for Research in Women’s Health, WHO/PAHO Collaborative Centre in Women’s Health. During this time, she worked extensively on the joint CIHR/NIH Globalization Gender & Health: Research-Policy initiative. Project partners included the NIH Office for Research in Women’s Health, Fogarty International Centre, and the Institute for Aboriginal Peoples’ Health and the Institute for Gender & Health, at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. More recently she has served as an external reviewer on global health governance-related grants for the CIHR, SSHRC, and IDRC. Suzanne also founded the UTSC International Health Film Series & Expo, and the UTSC Critical Book Club. Her interests include critical public health, global health governance, community-based participatory research, social theory and health, structural violence, gender and health, and critical pedagogies.

Professor Sicchia’s role is currently focussed on Health Sciences curriculum development and related programming specific to the new Scarborough Academy of Medicine & Integrative Health (SAMIH). Her responsibilities include Curriculum Innovation and Renewal, including attention to Indigenous experiences and knowledge systems; Black and racialized knowledges and experiences; experiences of other historically and systemically marginalized communities; and international and intercultural perspectives; New Undergraduate Programs; Special Programs (Combined, Dual, Double, (Con)Joint Degree and Certificate Programs • Major and Minor Modifications of Undergraduate Programs; • Unit and Program Reviews (quality assessment of programs and courses).