Blair Bigham MD

Blair is an award-winning journalist, scientist and physician who trained in emergency and critical care medicine at McMaster and Stanford Universities. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Associate Scientist at St Michael’s Hospital. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, newscasts, podcasts and medical journals. He is co-host of the CMAJ Podcast and deputy editor at healthydebate.ca. After completing training at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, his clinical work has taken him to Australia, Nepal, South Africa, and elsewhere.

He witnesses the relationship between wealth and health on a daily basis, and reports on the undertold stories of patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that help or fail them.

His first book, Death Interrupted: How modern medicine is complicating the way we die was released September 20, 2022.