[Comment] Offline: Canada and global health —iconic or ironic?

Canada occupies iconic status in the history of medicine and global health. Midwife to UN peacekeeping. 0 ·7%. The Lalonde Report. The Ottawa Charter. Evidence-based medicine. Muskoka. Canada can be proud of its iconic leaders too. Emily Howard Jennings Stowe, the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada. Jennie Robertson, the country's first female surgeon. Brock Chisholm, WHO's first Directo r-General. John Evans, who rewrote the World Bank's mission to include health. Canada possesses internationally influential health research funders, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the International Development Research Centre.
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