Nursing, Midwifery Womens Health Organizing Committee

Vivian Polak

Dalhousie University, Canada

Shagaf H Bakour

University of Birmingham, UK

Thomas Odumo

Financial Management, Canada

Lubna Daraz

University of Montreal, Canada

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Vivian Polak

Dalhousie University, Canada

Dr. Polak is a Canadian physician (Perinatal Psychiatrist) who studied Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada and completed her Psychiatry Residency at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She educates and informs patients and practitioners about psychiatric illnesses in pregnancy and the postpartum period and how to achieve full remission as well as optimise current and future health and wellness.

Shagaf H Bakour

University of Birmingham, UK

I am a fully accredited consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register. I am a Consultant in the NHS at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK, an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, a consultant at the Priory private hospital, and a consultant at The Edgbaston Hospital.

Thomas Odumo

Financial Management, Canada

I’ve earned a Commendation Plaque from The Prime Minister for my service to Canada. This was in recognition of my unparalleled skill in the financial analysis of Cabinet Documents at Health Canada. this confirms the recognition of this skill by the Certified General Accountants of Ontario that awarded me Letter of Commendation being among the select few top scoring accountants in their Advanced Management Accounting examination. 

Lubna Daraz

University of Montreal, Canada

Dr. Lubna Daraz is an Assistant Professor and an Implementation Scientist in the School of Library and Information Science, at the prestigious University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is also an affiliated Researcher at the Centre de recherche en santé publique (CReSP), Quebec. Prior to joining the university, she was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Research Fellow at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Dr. Daraz possess competence in the fields of Evidence-based Practice, Knowledge Translation, Digital Health Literacy, Health Equity, Health Informatics, and Implementation Science. Her passion extends to developing and implementing interventions to combat mis- and disinformation (MIDI) on digital platforms for patients, caregivers and online health and medical information developers.