Richard K.S. Wu

2025 McCall MacBain Scholar

McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, MSc, Experimental Medicine

Education:

University of Waterloo (BSc'19), York University (BSc'24)

Toronto, ON, Canada

Richard works as a clerical assistant at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and volunteers as a research assistant at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Inspired by his experiences as a caregiver for a family member, he also currently volunteers as a Patient & Family Advisor for Ontario Health. During his previous studies at the University of Waterloo, Richard led the student federation representing 34,000 undergraduates. In this role, he worked with the team to launch a 24/7 mental health helpline, establish a legal protection service for students, and advocate for the university to adopt the Okanagan Charter for health and wellbeing. More recently, at York, he volunteered at the Global and Environmental Health lab. He is working on a research study on housing insecurity, energy insecurity, and mental health in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana. Richard plans to pursue a Master of Science in Experimental Medicine at McGill. He hopes to one day make meaningful contributions to health policy and humanitarian efforts.