Rūshay Naik is the founder and principal of SOLITON— from Toronto, for the world.
Rūshay is a global health service designer and strategy consultant with experience working with health systems across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Before SOLITON, Rūshay was at the World Health Organization in Manila, where he deployed across the Western Pacific providing technical support on public health and health system improvement projects for governments and country offices in 38 Member States and areas.
Previously at the OECD in Paris, Rūshay worked to develop evidence-based climate-health strategic policy, and supported initiatives on civil society engagement, health systems performance assessment, and healthcare quality improvement with multilateral partners, including the World Bank and the European Commission.
He holds an MSc in Health Systems Research from the University of Toronto, where his research centred on health service delivery in the conflict-affected state.
image retrieved from A Treaty Guide for Torontonians, by the Talking Treaties CollectiveRūshay originates from the lands governed by Treaty 22, an agreement of the Crown in right of Canada on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and historically the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and Wyandot nations. Today, the woods and waters of the Credit River Reserve form part of the so-called Greater Toronto Area, and invite the collective stewardship of all on the land through the diplomatic covenant of peace represented by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum.