Dr. Ray Deonandan, Advisor
Dr. Raywat Deonandan is a scientist, author and journalist. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa (specializing in Global Health), and formerly the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Canadian federal government on the topic of Assisted Human Reproduction.
A critically acclaimed fiction writer, his works have been published in nine countries and in five languages. One of his books, a short story collection called “Sweet Like Saltwater”, won the national book award of Guyana, the nation of Deonandan’s birth. He is also a regular contributor of op-eds and features to The Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail and California’s India Currents magazine. Dr. Deonandan presently sits on the Boards of Directors of both Harbourfront Centre (one of the world’s biggest interdisciplinary Arts centres) and the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He currently makes his home in both Toronto and Ottawa.
Ray’s podcast on knowledge mobilization is one of the most downloaded in the series created for the Canada Council on Learning.
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