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WORLD HEALTH
ASSEMBLY SIMULATION
Closing Remark Speakers
Karin Page-Cutrara
The Associate Dean (AD) Teaching, Learning, and Academic Programs provides leadership to enhance the impact and reputation of the Faculty of Health’s programs through collaboration with the executive team and engagement with faculty and staff. The AD advances teaching and learning excellence, fosters innovative curricula, facilitates experiential learning through international and community partnerships, and supports educational impact.The role primarily focuses on undergraduate curricular support, including new program development, program modifications, reviews, and changes to courses and delivery methods. Activities range from major modifications to minor updates, interprofessional program planning, and course delivery updates. The AD collaborates closely with all academic units and administrative staff to coordinate initiatives and projects, promoting innovation and excellence in teaching and learning within the University and beyond.
Emmanuel Musa
Dr. Emmanuel Musa is a medical doctor, clinical scientist, epidemiologist, and public health expert. He served as team lead for High Impact Epidemics in the WHO’s Health Emergency Programme in Geneva and as senior medical officer for Emergency Risk Management, supporting 47 countries under WHO’s Africa Regional Office. Since joining WHO in Nigeria in 2001, he has held key roles in disease outbreaks, emergencies, humanitarian aid, polio eradication, and health system resilience. Before WHO, he worked in teaching, research, and healthcare leadership in Africa. Dr. Musa holds an MD, MPH, an MSc in Health Systems Management (Liverpool), and is a PhD candidate at the University of Bath. He also has a Global Health Diplomacy Certificate and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His interests include global health security, infectious disease epidemiology, humanitarian aid, climate change, and digital public health intelligence, contributing to improved health outcomes worldwide.
Adrian Viens
​​Dr. A.M. Viens is an Associate Professor of Global Health at York University. He has degrees in philosophy and law from the Universities of Toronto, Oxford, and London. His research specialization focuses on global health ethics and global health law, with a particular interest in demonstrating how philosophical analysis, legal epidemiology, and regulatory theory should shape how we approach different issues within global health policy, practice, and research (especially infectious diseases, disasters and emergencies, and health promotion). His latest book is Public Health Law: Ethics, Governance, and Regulation, co-authored with John Coggon and Keith Syrett (Routledge, 2017). He is an Investigator in the Global Strategy Lab and a member of the WHO Collaboration Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. He is also an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of Health Care Analysis.
Mary Wiktorowicz
Mary Wiktorowicz is a Professor of Global Health Governance and Policy in the Faculty of Health. Her research focuses on global governance frameworks for infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and pandemic prevention, particularly wildlife trade regulation. As Co-Principal Investigator on CIHR-funded projects, she contributes to the Global One Health Network and evaluates global health policies impacting women, children, and Indigenous communities. In mental health, she has analyzed the exclusion of community-based care from Canadian medicare and studied governance models for mental health and addiction services. She has advised various Canadian health agencies and legislative bodies. As former Associate Dean and Chair of the School of Health Policy and Management, she helped launch the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and develop multiple health programs, including the PhD in Health Policy and Equity. She currently chairs the committee developing the PhD in Global Health and is active in graduate education and global health leadership.
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