Health Professor, Honored for Civic Work, Developed a Metric for Service Learning

August 29, 2011

When Sherril B. Gelmon was designing her first course at the University of Toronto medical school in the mid-1980s, she had never heard of service learning. But the most effective way for her health-management students to understand public health, she knew, was to learn from the community around them. So for her new course, on evaluating health programs, she sent her students into the city to measure the effectiveness of local health projects.