Series 2 - Professional Activities

0.39 m of textual records
4379 digital files (3 GB)
815 email messages

This series includes records that document Dr. Shah’s career and professional activities as a physician, researcher, professor, and advocate for social change. Includes files related to his research and writings; professional correspondence; files related to his advocacy work regarding the Canadian citizenship examination, diversity at the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Blood Services; and files related to his work with Anishnawbe Health Toronto and the development of the Aboriginal Cultural Safety Initiative, an initiative to improve the curriculum with regards to Indigenous health content in Ontario’s college and university health science programs.

Digital files include drafts of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of his book Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada and further files relating his teachings, research and writings, presentations and talks, the Visiting Lectureship on Native Health, Anishnawbe Health Toronto and the Aboriginal Cultural Safety Initiative, and his advocacy work surrounding diversity at U of T and the Canadian Blood Services.

Also includes 815 emails from 2009-2023 from Dr Shah’s UToronto email account. The emails include correspondence with friends and colleagues on topics including the writing of his memoirs, his receipt of an honorary degree, the writing of the sixth edition of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada, his work with Anishnawbe Health Toronto, his advocacy work regarding the Canadian Blood Services.

All files are OPEN, with the exception of:

• B2024-0005_df007
  Restricted 30 years until 2052-01-01 to protect the privacy of third parties.
• B2023-0024/004(11)
  Restricted until 2034-01-01 to protect third-party privacy.

Please contact the University Archivist for further information.

Additional email files from Eudora, ca. 2003 were included with accession B2023-0024, but as of 2024-02-11, remain unprocessed as they were unable to be imported into the ePadd software.