He is leading the first-ever trial providing people with free access to essential medicines – quantifying the links between medication cost and health outcomes, and bringing to light the unfair choices that millions of Canadians are forced to make about their health.
Dr. Persaud is a scientist with MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital. He is a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital, and an associate professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Persaud was named one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 in 2017.