Dr. Praseedha Janakiram, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MPH Candidate Dr. Janakiram is a family physician of Sri Lankan origin, an immigrant to Canada having spent her youth in Cameroon, West Africa. She is clinically based at the Crossroads Refugee Clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada while also practicing community-based HIV primary care and family medicine. Dr. Janakiram serves as the Program Director for Global Health Education at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a Faculty Co-Lead for the New and Evolving Academic Leaders program at the Center for Faculty Development, and is Co-Chair of "Advancing Women's Excellence in Family Medicine" a program to support emerging leaders in family medicine who identify as women from around the globe. She has held the role of Faculty Lead for the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Family Medicine supporting Ethiopian colleagues and champions of family medicine in the advancement of this new specialty at Addis Ababa University. Recently, in May 2025, she had the honour of serving as Co-Chair of the Starfield Summit Toronto 2025, in close collaboration with global colleagues on the subject of “The Family Medicine imperative for better health system performance: strengthening the three components of the PHC approach.” She is deeply committed to education, faculty development, capacity strengthening partnership, and cultivating family medicine leadership as a pathway to global health equity. She is mother to a bright and beautiful 10yr old daughter, and believes in bringing a whole-self perspective to all the spheres she works within.