The Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada hosts the Besrour Poster Presentations annually at Family Medicine Forum (FMF). This was developed to encourage scholarly dialogue, collaboration, and exchange among Canadian and international partners.  

Recipients of the 2020 Besrour Poster Presentations awards were recognized at the first-ever virtual FMF in November.

Best Poster: “Perspectives in multi-disaster preparedness from Indonesia and Canada (in-progress)”

Congratulations to first author Dr. Rosaria Indah (University of Syiah Kuala, Indonesia) and co-authors Drs. Ichsan, Teuku Renaldi, Cut Rizka Rahmi, and Melissa Govindaraju (Syiah Kuala, Indonesia) and Dr. Lynda Redwood-Campbell (McMaster University).     

Second-Place Poster: “Informality in healthcare provision in urban Bangladesh: an evidence-based argument for increased health professional training”

Congratulations to first author Dr. Alayne M. Adams (McGill University) and co-authors Rushdia Ahmed (University of Toronto) and Dr. Iqbal Anwar (icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh).