Matthew Carwana

Matt Carwana (he/him) is a pediatrician and researcher interested in the intersection of pediatric clinical medicine, public health/policy, and social justice. He has a particular passion for health equity, and research co-design and co-implementation with families experiencing structural marginalization. In addition to his clinical training he completed a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from Harvard University. Matt is the Medical Lead of the RICHER Social Pediatrics Program, which provides outreach consultative care to equity-seeking children and families in Vancouver’s inner city. Through this role, he provides weekly care at the Sheway pregnancy outreach program and other sites in the Downtown Eastside. He is also a hospitalist pediatrician at BC Children’s Hospital. Matt serves as the Project Lead for Indirect Covid-19 Consequences for the CIHR-funded POPCORN Platform, and the Group Lead for Health Equity and Integrated Knowledge Translation at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. He is also President of the Social Pediatrics Section of the Canadian Pediatric Society and BC Children’s Hospital Site Lead on the Pediatric Inpatient Research Network (PIRN).