Melanie Henry

Dr. Melanie Henry is a family physician; University of Toronto lecturer and the global health and social accountability lead at Health for All, the Markham Family Medicine Teaching Unit. She is the board chair for Health for All, the ethics curriculum site co-lead, and also works as a physician with the community organization in York Region to address the health concerns of those experiencing homelessness.

She completed her fellowship in Global Health and Vulnerable Populations at the University of Toronto, and has collaborated on published research about the development of family medicine as a profession around the world. Dr. Henry is working towards the improvement of the family medicine resident health equity curriculum designed to encourage empathetic and social justice minded physicians. She is passionate about addressing the social determinants of health through systems based change and using primary care as an effective tool to provide equitable health care for all.