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Dr. Aaron Orkin is a Physician and Researcher in Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He holds graduate degrees in History and Philosophy of Medicine (Oxford), Public Health (Toronto), and Clinical Epidemiology (Toronto). Dr. Orkin is an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is the founding Director of Population Health for Inner City Health Associates Toronto, leading an interdisciplinary team of practitioners providing population health services for and with people experiencing homelessness. He practices emergency medicine at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto.
Dr. Orkin is a leading thinker in the development of clinical public health practice and Ontario’s first fellowship-trained clinical public health specialist. He is passionate about improving patient care and community health by integrating clinical practice and public health approaches, and building effective collaborations between health care institutions and public health agencies. His practice focuses on addressing health inequities in close partnership with marginalized communities, and building more sustainable and community-based services by engaging the public directly in health service delivery. He has advised governments and the humanitarian non-profit sector on population health and equity both in Canada and internationally.
- Family Physician
- Emergency Physician
- Population and Preventive Health Specialist
- Health Administrator
- Academic Faculty
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- Interdisciplinary Primary Care Team (other than CHC)
- Emergency Department
- Homeless Service Setting
- Academic
- Clinical Teaching
- Non-Clinical Teaching
- Research
- Health Care Administration
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Unity Health, Toronto
MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Unity Health, Toronto
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