Biography

Andrea K. Boggild, BSc, MSc, MD, DTMH, FRCPC, DipABLM is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Medical Director of the Tropical Disease Unit at Toronto General Hospital. She is a licensed Medical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases physician with additional certifications in Tropical Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, who provides care to patients with travel-acquired illnesses in her medical practice. As a Clinician Scientist in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, she has graduate supervisory privileges through the Institute of Medical Science and leads a research program in tropical medicine and travel and migration health. She serves and has served in many leadership capacities nationally and internationally, including on advisory groups to the Public Health Agency of Canada and World Health Organization. Dr. Boggild is heavily engaged in the EDIIA space and creation of novel pathways to representation across the academic enterprise. She has a longstanding interest in the intersection of human and ecological health, as well as how socioeconomic and demographic inequities drive health disparities globally.