Kevin Chan

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Kevin Chan, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FAAP (born January 1, 1972) is a pediatric emergency physician at Children's Hospital Boston and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He currently is an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Born in Toronto, he received a Bachelor of Science B.Sc. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto, a MD from the University of Ottawa, and a MPH From Harvard University.

In 1994, Dr. Chan co-founded the Student University Network for Social and International Health or Reseau Etudiants Universitaire Pour la Sociale et Sante Internationale. He also help found the Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Ottawa and the Centre for International Health at the University of British Columbia.

In 2001-2002, he was co-chair of the Canadian Society for International Health. And from 2001-2003, he was President of the International Child Health Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society. He was the recipient of the Chris Krogh award Prize from the Global Health Education Consortium.

He is the winner of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University in 2002. In 2003, he won the Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholarship in International Health. Currently, he holds the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholarship from Canada.

Dr. Chan has worked extensively in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, as well as in complex humanitarian emergency situations in Rwanda and Kosovo.