Seema Marwaha

Class of 2017

Dr. Seema Marwaha is an internal medicine physician and scientist at Trillium Health Partners and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. As a Frank Knox Fellow, she studied the use of technology and innovation in education at Harvard University, looking at novel ways to educate the public on health. Leveraging her background as a documentary filmmaker, her major career focus is on translating health knowledge to the general public through narratives. She also seeks to document and improve the patient experience, exploring areas for human-centred design methodology in healthcare. She recently helped start Faces of Health Care, a website that explores the stories of people who work or access health care.

Clippings

  • 2017
  • 2019
  • The Globe and Mail

COVID-19 can affect people for the long haul – and they’re getting the short shrift

  • 2017
  • CBC

‘All they have to manage pain is their prescription pad’: Doctors on front line of opioid crisis

  • 2017
  • CBC

World This Weekend: Opioid Gamer

  • 2017
  • Maclean’s

Parents of stillborn children find solace in photography

  • 2017
  • TVO

Canada’s vaccine problem

  • 2017
  • National Post

Canada eradicated measles in 1998 — so why is it making a comeback?

  • 2017
  • Quartz

The border won’t protect Canadians against American anti-vaxxers

  • 2017
  • CIUT 89.5 FM

TIME ZONES

  • 2017
  • CIUT 89.5 FM

TIME ZONES

  • 2017
  • CBC

Human Trafficking

  • 2017
  • CBC

‘Anyone can be a victim’: Canadian high school girls being lured into sex trade

  • 2017
  • Canadian Press
  • The Globe and Mail

Beware the big new-year’s resolutions

  • 2017
  • TVO

Most Canadians who request assisted death won’t get it — and some won’t get palliative care, either

  • 2017
  • National Post

This is why Canada has the second-highest medication costs in the world

  • 2017
  • CTV

SickKids looks to ‘stretch’ emotions again with new video in fundraising campaign

  • 2017
  • Canadian Press
  • The Toronto Star

SickKids aims to dial up different emotions in new fundraising campaign video

  • 2017
  • Vice 

Turning Cancer into a War Is Defeating Patients

  • 2017
  • Munk School

GOING VIRAL: MUNK SCHOOL’S FELLOWSHIP IN GLOBAL JOURNALISM TURNS EXPERTS INTO JOURNALISTS