Yipeng Ge is a Chinese-Canadian, first-generation immigrant, and a humble and grateful guest of this land. He is a primary care physician and public health practitioner based in Ottawa, Canada, and was born in and from Wuhan, China.
He grew up in Waterloo, Ontario, and completed his undergraduate studies at McMaster University in Health Sciences (Honours) with a specialization in Global Health. He currently works and lives on the traditional, unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. In his clinical practice, he works in family medicine practice and refugee health at a community health centre. He received a Master of Public Health degree (Health and Social Behaviour) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has worked on and studied the structural and colonial determinants of health in both the settler colonial contexts of so-called Canada and occupied Palestine. He has been interviewed and appeared on CBC’s Power and Politics, CBC radio, Global News, TRT World, CP24, CTV, and Al Jazeera English.
Yipeng is a member of the board of directors for the Canadian Public Health Association and Canadian Doctors for Medicare. Yipeng is passionate about tackling health and social inequities by addressing the social and broader determinants of health, including anti-racism work and practice in medical education. He was a member of the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Anti-Racism Advisory Committee, tasked with helping to shape and develop CIHR’s anti-racism action plan.
Yipeng has worked for various global health organizations including the World Health Organization (Headquarters) in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Ontario. He has also been involved in various student-led initiatives including, co-founding the McMaster Indigenous Health Conference in 2016 and chairing the Canadian Global Health Students and Young Professionals Summit in 2018. He was the first student/young professional co-chair for the 25th annual Canadian Conference on Global Health in 2019. In 2020, he was Canada’s official youth delegate to the 73rd World Health Assembly and the 58th Pan American Health Organization Directing Council.
He was previously on the board of directors for the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) in 2023. He was previously the Director/Vice-President of Government Affairs for the Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS), leading national advocacy efforts with medical students between 2017-2019. He previously served on the board of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) and the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) and as a student representative for the Medical Council of Canada (MCC).
Yipeng has artwork featured in Murmurs: the Journal of Art and Healing, on the cover of an issue of Canadian Family Physician (CFP), and Chrysalis: a collection of art by University of Ottawa medical students.
Last updated: Sept 26, 2024.
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