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Paltiel, Freda
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1924-2003
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Freda Paltiel (née Leibov) was a graduate of Queen's University, B.A 1945, and later received her Bachelor of Social Work at McGill in 1949, and her MPH at Hebrew University in 1966. Freda joined the public service in 1967 and was Canada's first Coordinator of the Status of Women for the Privy Council Office. As an advisor to the WHO and UNICEF, she served on the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization. She helped draft the Nairobi Forward Looking Strate gies for the Advancement of Women 2000, and chaired the executive subcommittee on Women’s Health and Development of the PAHO, a national task force on family violence, and a federal-provincial-territorial working group on women’s health. She retired in 1993 as Senior Advisor, Status of Women, Health and Welfare Canada.
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