Julie Thorne
MD, MPH, FRCSC
Dr. Thorne is the current family planning lead for Women's College Hospital and Mt Sinai Hospital. She spent 2018-2020 working in Eldoret, Kenya with the AMPATH Consortium (www.ampathkenya.org) and her time there has given her an important perspective on global women's health, health systems, and innovative ways of thinking about care delivery. Dr. Thorne's fellowship was in the CARE program at Queen's University; she is most passionate about contraception for family planning and for menstrual management, and about safe, accessible abortion care for all people who need it. She hopes to be able to continue to spend time in Kenya and other international contexts, embracing academic partnerships and continued global-local learning. Her current projects in Kenya focus on adolescent pregnancy education and access to empathy-driven care, and on contraceptive choice and access for women with chronic conditions. She and her team are working on the expansion of their contraceptive and abortion care services in the department in Toronto and she is certain many research and implementation science opportunities will grow from there!
Research Synopsis
Research by Dr. Thorne can be found under the citation Thorne, JG.