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]