Paul Caulford

Caulford is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Family and Community Medicine.[1]

Caulford worked as the chief of family medicine and was the community services director at Scarborough Hospital during the SARS epidemic in 2003. His analysis of the state of Canada's healthcare system and his critique of mankind's treatment of planet earth are quoted in page one of the 2022 book Turkey and the Post-Pandemic World Order.[4] He points out how the healthcare systems both in Canada and internationally were incapable of responding to the pandemic and called for investments to create more robust systems.[4]

In 2000,[5] Caulford and nurse Jennifer D’Andrade co-founded the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care (CCRIH), which is located in a converted church[6] at 4158 Sheppard Avenue East.[7][8] By early 2021, CCRIH treated patients 40,000 times.[5] The clinic provides free healthcare to immigrants and refugees who would otherwise be without access to healthcare[5] three days a week.[9]

In 2017, Caulford treated an increasing number of women and children arriving in Canada via USA. He treated frostbite, mental health conditions, malnutrition, respiratory problems, and provided reproductive health services.[10]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Caulford provided family medicine services online[6] and face-to-face in a tent.[11][12][7] In April 2020 he called for more doctors to support his tent clinic.[6]

In 2012, Caulford called for the Federal Government of Canada to provider better healthcare for refugees and simper administration procedures to encourage doctors to register in the government's refugee health funding program.[13]

He criticized Donald Trump's immigration policies in 2017,[10] and in 2019 he advocated against the deportation of a family from Canada.[14]

In January 2020, Caulford spoke of the need for COVID-19 vaccines to be provided outside of normal working hours.[15] Later in 2020, he launched a successful advocacy campaign to persuade the Federal Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario to provide hospital care to people without documentation.[16]

In 2021, Caulford spoke about how many poor people have moved away from the centre of Toronto to Scarborough.[17]

Caulford runs the Scarborough Women Assessment and Need program that provides counselling and reproductive health care to vulnerable women in Scarborough.[5]

Caulford and Amanda More M.D. co-founded Filling the Gap Dental Outreach to provide free dental services to people on low incomes.[5]