Speaker: Dr. Doug McMillian is a member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Halifax.

He is a retired Neonatologist previously who has worked in the field for over 42 years, more than 23 years as a Division Head.  Doug is now a Professor of Pediatrics (post retirement) at Dalhousie University and Professor Emeritus at University of Calgary.

 

With thirty years experience in global health related to children including educational design and program implementation Dr. McMillian has travelled the world helping mothers and children survive.

 

Dr. McMillan’s research during his career included studies in basic sciences, clinical trials, ethics, epidemiology and education. He has been actively involved in education of various health care professionals, including being the director of the Fellowship Program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine both in Calgary and Halifax.

 

Most of Dr. McMillian's research focuses and outreach work has been on newborn and infant care programs in the developing world. This was the topic of his presentation to our club. 

 

in his presentation Doug explained how education and awareness can have a dramatic effect on infant mortality in developing parts of the world.  He highlighted several projects he has been involved with that taught mothers to properly feed and care for their infants. Through simple posters, booklets and dolls, trained workers were able to pass the information on in their communities.  Kits were available in 80 countries and 33 languages.

 

Doug outlined several partnerships on projects that he was currently involved with and encouraged the Rotary Club of Truro to be a partner with the Rotary Club of Halifax (and others) on a Global Grant project designed to help infants in Uganda. 

 

 

Dr. McMillian was thanked by Barbara Goit.

 

Happy Mug: Happy Rotarians included:

50/50: Adam Wyllie had the winning ticket but missed the joker and therefore the $62 pot continues to build.