Farah Shroff
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Canada
Farah Shroff
Dr Farah M Shroff is a Canadian public intellectual with expertise in public health research and education who focuses on gender equity, reproduction, midwifery, HIV, sexuality, mental well-being and so forth. Her research, knowledge translation and implementation work envisions and develops Health for All through integrative health approaches, and social/environmental justice from a feminist anti-racism and decolonial lens.
She is the Principal of Darya Consulting, a public health consulting company that has worked for governments and non-governmental agencies in Canada and abroad, on policy, planning, evaluation and other areas. Dr Shroff’s passion about the health and human rights of women, children and the environment led her to found Maternal and Infant Health Canada (MIHCan), a global public health collaborative.
From 1993-8, she was an inaugural faculty member in Canada’s first university program to educate midwives in Ontario–a program that was rated a world leader. Her book, The New Midwifery: Reflections on Renaissance and Regulation, an edited collection, examines Canadian midwifery.
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health honored Dr Shroff’s work with the Takemi Fellowship in International Health (‘21-’22)–a recognition of her leadership role in Canada. She is now on the Board of the Harvard HealthLab and Expert at the Harvard Innovation Lab.
