Farah Shroff

Dr Shroff is a public health educator and researcher who teaches in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. She is the editor and author of a book, The New Midwifery: Reflections on Renaissance and Regulation, as well as many articles about public health, women, integrative health practices and more. Dr Shroff is the Founder and Lead of a global public health collaborative, Maternal and Infant Health Canada (maa.med.ubc.ca), which strives to improve the lives of women and children around the world through education, research and innovation.
She also writes poetry and prose and tries to read one poem every day by a poet in the tradition of Hafiz, Rumi, Khyam, Attar. Dr Shroff is also the principal of Shroff Consulting, which offers strategic planning, evaluation, facilitation and more in health and social affairs.

As a yoga teacher, Dr Shroff has taught in over 40 nations. She has practiced yoga all her life and has been inspired by the incredible benefits that this ancient South Asian practice has brought to hundreds of people, sometimes with the simple act of learning to breath correctly. Breath is basic to life.
Dr Shroff and her husband Roozbeh live in Vancouver while their sons Zubin and Arman are studying at universities in Montreal and Amsterdam. They love being in nature, striving for social justice, dancing, singing and laughing.