Charna Gord

Charna Gord is a lifelong public health practitioner, educator, and advocate. She has decades of health promotion experience working at Toronto Public Health and at the University of Toronto. She began her work at Toronto Public Health as a community facing Healthiest Babies Possible Dietitian and moved into education, planning and policy, and professional practice positions at a senior staff level. She was Acting Project Coordinator of the Toronto Food Policy Council at Toronto Public Health, and Associate Program Director and Lecturer in the University of Toronto Master of Public Health Community Nutrition program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She holds a Masters of Education in Health Professions Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Charna is dedicated to public health values and health equity principles. She especially enjoys mentoring the next generation of practitioners.