Charity Maritim is an epidemiologist and global health researcher. She graduated from the Institute for Global Public Health at the University of Manitoba with a Masters of Science in Community Health Sciences. She is also a Global Health Fellow with the Global Health and International Development Program (GHID). She has a diverse range of research skills from research design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, environmental scans and knowledge translation. Her key research areas are in HIV/AIDS, immigrant and refugee health and neglected tropical diseases.

She is a first generation African immigrant who has been actively involved in working with and serving newcomer communities in Canada and has extensive knowledge on the experiences of immigrants and refugees in accessing healthcare, their unique health needs and the challenges faced. In addition, as a global health researcher, she has collaborated in field and remote studies in low resource settings funded by USAID, Grand Challenges Canada and Grand Challenges Africa. She advocates for equity, sustainability and understanding of social, political and cultural contexts in global health research, and is a proponent of communities designing their own solutions.

Charity has worked in the non-profit sector, academia, local government and currently with the federal government. Charity is an excellent writer with skills from academic writing, writing reports for provincial and federal governments, and as a blogger writing on experiences of the African Diaspora.