Dr. Amina Jabbar

Dr. Amina Jabbar is the Chair of Progress Toronto’s Board of Directors. She is a resident physician in Geriatric Medicine (McMaster University). With a focus on populations that have been traditionally marginalized, Amina has facilitated anti-homophobia workshops in schools and community organizations with Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia, delivered sexual health services at Planned Parenthood Toronto, and created tools to research neighbourhood-level health issues at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health.

Amina earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Ryerson University (2007), a Masters of Science in health research methodology from McMaster University (2009) and a Doctor of Medicine from University of Toronto (2013). She is pursuing a PhD in Health Policy at McMaster University.