International/Global team

Dr. Katherine Rouleau

Global Primary Health Care Lead

Dr. Katherine Rouleau is a family physician at Unity Health-St-Michael’s Hospital, and director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care at DFCM. Her clinical and academic interests include health equity, the role of family medicine and primary care in strengthening health systems locally and globally, global health education, the scholarship-leadership continuum and the care of disadvantaged populations in Canada and abroad.

Jack Westfall, MD, MPH

Senior Advisor, Health System Leadership

Focus: Provide strategic advice to faculty in the areas of community- based participatory primary care research, with a focus on capacity building at community sites.  

Jack grew up in Yuma, Colorado. During high school he worked in the hospital as a lab technician and earned his EMT. He completed his MD and master’s in public health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, an internship in hospital medicine in Wichita, Kansas, and his Family Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado Rose Family Medicine Program. After joining the faculty at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, Dr Westfall started the High Plains Research Network, a geographic community and practice-based research network in rural and frontier Colorado. He practiced family medicine in several rural communities including Limon, Ft Morgan, and his hometown of Yuma. He added Medication Assisted Treatment for opioid use disorder to his clinical care in 2016.The work of the HPRN and its participatory, Community Advisory Council has included funding from the CDC, NIH, AHRQ, and numerous state and local foundations. After retiring from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he worked for several years as the Director for Whole Person Care at Santa Clara County Health and Hospitals in San Jose, California. He served for several years as the Director of the Robert Graham Center for policy research in primary care and family medicine in Washington DC. Returning to Colorado, he continues to consult and collaborate on primary care practice-based research, community-based participatory research, integrated primary care and behavioral health, and the interface between primary care, public, and community health. In addition to joining the faculty of the University of Toronto, Jack practices family medicine part-time in his hometown of Yuma, Colorado.