Dr. Mona Haidar is the Director of Primary Care and Medical Specialties at ICHA. Her areas of expertise encompass Primary care, Social Medicine, Global Health and Clinical Public Health. She is also the Chair of the Global Health Member Interest Group at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Her journey reflects a commitment to health equity, leveraging Primary care and Social medicine to bring sustainable transformations in healthcare for communities subjected to marginalization, locally and globally.

A medical graduate of the University of Toronto and the American University of Beirut, Dr. Haidar also holds a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard and was a fellow at Havard Medical school’s Global Health Delivery program in the department of Social Medicine. She is fluent in Arabic, English, and French with basic Spanish proficiency.

At ICHA, Dr. Haidar has served in diverse roles and sites, currently working as a family physician at Sistering and Inner City FHT. During the pandemic, she was Medical co-Director at Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong, an Indigenous comprehensive COVID-19 program and played a pivotal role in the Covid recovery sites from the start. Additionally, she worked as a Public Health physician, supporting York region Covid-19 response.

She has considerable experience in program development, Global Health delivery, and Medical education. As a founding faculty at Lebanese American University’s School of Medicine, she established a novel Social Medicine and Global Health program, encompassing education, service, research and advocacy, and was instrumental in developing Primary care and Interprofessional education programs. Additionally, she worked with Partners in Health’s HIV Rural initiative in Lesotho and undertook short-term roles with WHO and UNAIDS