Dr Jordan Jarvis

Jordan Jarvis (she/her) is a Senior Policy Advisor with the Ontario Ministry of Health in Canada. She has varied research and strategic policy experience covering issues such as pharmaceutical policy and universal health care, trade and health, health system integration, human resources for health, equitable access to cancer care, and health systems recovery in Canada, Kenya, and at the global level. Her doctoral dissertation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine focused on understanding the policy processes and political economy context for the implementation of the national essential medicines list in Kenya, with an aim to identify strategies to improve access to medicines (particularly for NCDs).

Previously, as the Executive Director of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, Jordan led advocacy focused on improving health equity and access to health products for people suffering from NCDs. She has worked and consulted for diverse global health institutions, including the WHO, the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, and AMREF Health Africa in Kenya. In addition to her role with the WHO STAG on NCDs, she serves on the Expert Advisory Group for the Medicines Patent Pool and as Associate Editor for BMC’s Globalization and Health. Prior to her DrPH training as a health policy and systems researcher, she completed a postgraduate research fellowship with the Harvard Global Equity Initiative (Harvard Medical School) and her MSc in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto.