Emerald Health Consulting Team
Emerald Health Consulting (EHC) delivers pragmatic consulting services to governments and health organizations on complex public health system issues. We integrate public health and medical expertise with the insights of community members. The EHC team is customized for each project and each team may include public health physicians, epidemiologists, public health nurses, community members, and others.
Dr. Jasmine Pawa
Public Health Physician and Founder
Dr. Jasmine Pawa is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist physician. She works as a public health physician consultant to a range of public sector organizations and is the Past President of the national specialty society, Public Health Physicians of Canada. She has also provided Medical Officer of Health locum services, particularly in the North of Canada. In addition to medicine and her specialty training in Canada at the University of Alberta and University of Toronto, she obtained a master’s degree in health policy in the UK jointly from LSE and LSHTM. She teaches at both NOSM University and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Her professional focus is on health policy and health systems, particularly at the intersection of health care and public health, and she has additional experience in qualitative methods.
Dr. Jennifer Campbell
Public Health Physician
Dr. Jennifer Campbell is a certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. She completed her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Master of Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She works as a full-scope family physician in Kahnawá:ke, Quebec and provides public health physician and consultant services to various organizations. She has taught at McGill University and the University of Toronto. She provides physician services to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, previously held an appointment as an Investigating Coroner for Ontario, and has worked as an epidemiologist. Her professional focus is on reducing health inequalities through health systems transformation.
Melissa Vander Ploeg
Tech Specialist
Melissa is a tech wizard and systems/automations enthusiast! After 15+ years in the corporate world in a combo of tech and project management work (a jill of all trades!), she decided to pursue work that she is most passionate about as a Tech Specialist and independent contractor.
As a Tech Specialist, Melissa works in many digital product and website platforms such as Kajabi, Wix, Wordpress, Flodesk, Thinkific, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, Zapier, and more. She has experience in digital product delivery, including course launch tech set-up and marketing funnels/automations, website creation/maintenance, project management, CRM management, and more!
Her vast work experience and technical knowledge builds on her self-starter, resourcefulness, problem solving, and detail-oriented skills. She always comes into a project with a pro-active and positive approach and a commitment to providing a high quality of work to help bring your vision for your website to life!
In her spare time, she is balancing family life as a wife and mother to four young children; who she loves spending time together at their rural family home.
Triti Khorasheh
Project Coordinator
Triti Khorasheh is a public health professional with experience in community-based research, service delivery, and project management at hospital, non-profit, and government agencies. She obtained her Master’s of Public Health from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She has led and collaborated on research, knowledge exchange, and program planning in the areas of substance use and patient/community engagement. Triti is passionate about working on projects that equitably engage the living/lived expertise of people, families, and communities in public health research and practice.