Anne Fanning

Anne Fanning (born 1939) is a Canadian physician and expert in tuberculosis.[1] Born in 1939 in London, Ontario, Fanning studied medicine at the University of Western Ontario and undertook postgraduate training at the University of Alberta.[2] Fanning worked as a researcher and professor at the University of Alberta beginning in 1973, and as a clinical physician at the University of Alberta Hospital and the Aberhart Hospital.[3][2] She designed a tuberculosis clinic for Edmonton and headed the tuberculosis program of the province of Alberta from 1987 to 1996.[4] She was "forced out of her job" because of her criticisms of planned program cuts.[1][3] She then moved to Vienna to work with the World Health Organization as the WHO Medical Officer for Global TB Education from 1998 to 1999.[3][4] From 2000 to 2003 she served as president of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.[4] She developed a global health program for the University of Alberta before retiring in 2005.[2]

She founded and is on the Executive Committee of Stop TB Canada. She is also on the board of Keiskamma Canada and the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation.[4] She and her husband Melvyn Binder have two daughters.[2]

Fanning is a professor emerita of the University of Alberta.[5] She became a member of the Order of Canada in 2007 and received the Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012.[4] She was the 2014 recipient of the Frederic Newton Gisborne Starr Award from the Canadian Medical Association.[1] Other awards include the Japanese Anti-Tuberculosis Association TB Global Award; the Alberta Centennial Medal; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Society for International Health; the Alberta Order of Excellence; the May Cohen Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; and being named as "One of Alberta's Physicians of the Century" by the Alberta Medical Association.[6]