Dr. Gary Bloch is a family physician with St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates. His research, clinical, education, program development, and advocacy interests focus on the intersection between social risks to health and front-line health care. He has developed internationally recognized clinical tools, including a Clinical Tool on Poverty. He serves as the St. Michael’s Family Health Team’s Physician Lead, Equity and Social Interventions, and has overseen the development and implementation of a multifaceted, culture-shifting incorporation of interventions and approaches to the social determinants of health and health equity. He is a former AMS Foundation Phoenix Fellow and Wellesley Institute Senior Fellow. Dr. Bloch is a co-founder of Inner City Health Associates and of the advocacy group Health Providers Against Poverty, and was the inaugural Chair of the Ontario College of Family Physicians’ Committee on Poverty and Health. He is a recognized social policy expert, and sat on a working group on income security reform for the Government of Ontario. Dr. Bloch’s work has been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. He publishes in peer reviewed scientific and in popular publications, and he is frequently asked to speak in academic and non-academic settings, as well as to the medical and popular media.