Global Health Institute

Keith Martin is a global health leader whose career has spanned medicine, politics, and international development. In this conversation, Dr. Martin will share insights from his work addressing global health challenges, promoting interdisciplinary solutions, and navigating crisis-affected regions around the world.

This event is hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise. John Monahan guides the structured conversation, and the discussion is open to all Georgetown University faculty, students, and staff.

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Keith Martin, M.D., P.C., is a physician who, since September 2012, has served as the founding executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. Between 1993 and 2011, Dr. Martin served as a member of parliament in Canada’s House of Commons. He held portfolios in foreign affairs, health, the environment, defense, and international development. He has been on many diplomatic missions in areas in crisis around the world but particularly across Africa, and he worked as a physician on the Mozambique border during their civil war. Martin has spent many years volunteering on conservation efforts in South Africa and is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.

John T. Monahan, J.D., is a senior advisor to the Georgetown University Global Health Institute, a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and a senior scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.