Jasmine Pawa

Dr. Jasmine Pawa is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist physician. She works as a public health physician consultant to a range of public sector organizations and is the President of the national specialty society, Public Health Physicians of Canada.

She also supports the health care and operations teams in Nunavut as a Senior Medical Advisor within the Department of Health, with a focus on preventive care and population health. Prior to this, she provided locum coverage for the Deputy Chief Public Health Officer (DCPHO) role for the territory, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Born and raised in Alberta, her undergraduate studies included a minor in history prior to medical school and her residency in public health. She holds a master’s degree in health policy obtained in the UK jointly from the London School of Economics (LSE) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She is an assistant professor with NOSM University and an adjunct lecturer with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Her professional focus is on health policy and health systems, particularly at the intersection of health care and public health, and she has additional experience in qualitative methods. She’s committed to working with teams on integrating population health and medical expertise with the insights of community members – and shifting decision-making accordingly.