Monika Dutt is a Nova Scotia based Canadian medical doctor, and a past chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare. She is known for taking advocacy stances on social justice matters. She is a specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and also in Family Medicine.
She has a Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University[3] and a MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia. She is a PhD Candidate in Health Policy at McMaster University.
Dutt has practiced medicine in Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.[3] She is currently the Medical Officer of Health for Central and Western Newfoundland and Labrador and a family physician at the Ally Centre of Cape Breton. She is currently on the Board of the Broadbent Institute and the Cabot Trail Writers Festival. She has served on the board of directors of Doctors Nova Scotia,[6] chaired Canadian Doctors for Medicare,[7] and has been the medical officer for three provinces and territories in Canada:[8]Nova Scotia,[6]Newfoundland and Labrador,[9] and Northwest Territories[3]
She was the Executive Director of Upstreamnot for profit from 2017 to 2018.[6]
She is a cyclist.[11] In 2022, she won the H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize for her short story about single motherhood, Foundations.[12]