Dr. Barry Pakes

MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC, PhD

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Dr. Barry Pakes is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine physician with a practice focus in local public health, as well as public health and global health education and ethics. He is a graduate of the Public Health Preventive Medicine specialty training program at the University of Toronto and has degrees from McGill, Harvard, and the Gorgas Institute in Lima, Peru. He earned his PhD in Public Health Ethics at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Pakes’ recent Public Health leadership roles have included as Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health in Nunavut, AMOH in London Middlesex, AMOH in Halton Region, and most recently as AMOH with the Region of Peel as part of the COVID response.

He has worked and taught in local and global public health settings including as a Senior Ethics Fellow at the WHO, in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kerala and Israel. Dr. Pakes also practices emergency medicine and primary care in Northern Ontario communities, is a travel clinic medical director and supervises medical residents at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is currently the Global Health Lead for Postgraduate Medical Education, Program Director of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency program and Program Director for the Global Health Education Initiative at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto).