Andrew Howard

Dr. Andrew Howard became involved with Global Surgery in 1999 when it became clear to him that the burden of preventable/treatable childhood injury is borne outside Canada. At the time however, there was a significant gap in formally acknowledged global surgery activity at the University. Together with Massey Beveridge and John Wedge, Dr. Howard began the process of encouraging others to get involved with Global Surgery efforts. His personal global surgery work focuses on Ethiopia, East Africa and Canada. 

Dr. Howard has co-established a University of Toronto partnership with the University of Global Health Equity (Butaro, Rwanda) to teach portions of a Masters in Global Health, global surgery stream. He has also established and maintained the Bethune Round Table in Global Surgery, a Canadian/International global surgery conference now in its 24th year. 

Additionally, he is one of the co-founders (and now administers) the Prakash fellowship program which supports low- and middle-income country fellows to train within the University of Toronto training programs. Many of these trainees have now established new fellowship training programs in their home countries. 

From a curricular perspective, Dr. Howard ran the Ptolemy electronic library project, the Surgery in Africa Online review course, and other curriculum support initiatives in collaboration with COSECSA (College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa).   

COSECSA has been involved with the development, delivery, and growth of accreditation examinations in orthopaedic surgery, and in the newly accredited specialty of paediatric orthopaedic surgery. Dr. Howard has also led and participated in multiple clinical and research training activities for COSECSA and Addis Ababa University trainees. 

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