Minister of Health Promotion – Margarett Best

The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and Health Law Club worked with the Office of the Minister of Health Promotion for the Minister to come to Western. Minister Margarett Best was educated at U of T and Osgoode Hall, and has an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Northern Caribbean University in Jamaica.

Margarett Best and Omar Ha-Redeye during the 2007 Provincial Election

She was a First Vice-President of the Black Business and Professional Association, member of the board of Urban Financial Services Coalition, sat on the Law Society of Upper Canada Solicitors’ Examination Blueprint Committee, and on the board of the Women’s Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham (WMRCC).

In 2007, Minister Best was nominated for the Lincoln Alexander Medal and she was awarded an African Canadian Achievement Award in 2006.

Over 200 people heard Min. Best speak at UWO.

Omar Ha-Redeye is the President of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and Health Law Club.