Praseedha Janakiram

Dr. Praseedha Janakiram, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MPH Advanced Standing in Family and Community Medicine.

 

Dr. Janakiram is a family physician based at the Crossroads Refugee Clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada while also practicing community-based HIV primary care and family medicine.

 

Dr. Janakiram serves as the Program Director for Global Health Education at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.  She is a Faculty Co-Lead for the New and Evolving Academic Leaders program at the Center for Faculty Development,  and is Co-Chair of "Advancing Women's Excellence in Family Medicine" (AWE-FM) a program to support emerging leaders in family medicine who identify as women from around the globe.

 

 ln May 2025, she had the honour of serving as Co-Chair of the Starfield Summit Toronto 2025, in close collaboration with global colleagues on the subject of “The Family Medicine imperative for better health system performance:  strengthening the three components of the PHC approach.”

 

Praseedha is deeply committed to education through capacity strengthening partnership, and cultivating family medicine leadership as a pathway to global health equity.