Early Life and Education
Meili was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and grew up on a family farm near Courval, Saskatchewan. He attended Vanier Collegiate in Moose Jaw before going on to the University of Saskatchewan where he studied Human Anatomy and Languages.
After finishing his first degree, Meili's first attempt to attend medical school was rejected. He then travelled to South America for five months and experienced life the developing world. In 1999 he co-organized a project called Limbs and Light for Latin America which raised money to purchase a school bus which they then filled with prosthetic limbs for landmine victims and drove to Nicaragua.
Meili entered the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in September 2000 and graduated in 2004. He completed his residency at the Westwinds Primary Health Centre in Saskatoon in June 2007. In 2012 he published "A Healthy Society: how a focus on health can revive Canadian democracy."
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