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| Dr. Terrence Sullivan, chair |
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Terrence Sullivan is the former president and chief executive officer of Cancer Care Ontario, a position he occupied for seven years.
From 1993 to 2001, Sullivan was president of the Institute for Work & Health, a private not-for-profit institute affiliated with the University of Toronto, which he developed into North America’s leading research centre on work-related injury. Sullivan has held senior roles in the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs and the Cabinet Office. He served two successive first ministers of Ontario as executive director of the Premier's Council on Health Strategy.
Sullivan is an active behavioural scientist with research and practice interests in prevention and health system performance. He holds faculty appointments in the departments of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Sullivan is academic leader for the national fellowship program in health care leadership for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.
He co-chaired the Agency Implementation Task Force which provided the governance and design blueprint for PHO. |
| Dr. Alan H. Meek, vice-chair |
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Alan Meek graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph in 1971. After several years in private veterinary practice, he returned to OVC where he completed a master's of science in Epidemiology in 1974. He subsequently completed his doctor of philosophy in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1978.
Meek joined the faculty of OVC in 1978 and became full professor in 1990. He held numerous leadership positions at OVC, including, chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology and associate dean OVC, and from 1994-2004, he was dean of OVC.
Meek has published widely in his discipline of epidemiology including a book, several book chapters and numerous scientific and other papers. For several years before retiring in 2008 as emeritus professor, he worked on numerous special projects for the University of Guelph
Meek was a member of the Provincial Implementation Task Force which recommended the creation of PHO. He serves on several boards including the Advisory Board for the Canadian Veterinary Reserve (2006 - 2010) and the Sheela Basrur Centre Advisory Council. In 2009, Meek became an inaugural inductee into the Orangeville District Secondary School's Hall of Fame. He was named an honorary fellow of the University of Guelph in 2011 and is a life member, Canadian Veterinary Medical Association. |
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Tony Dean is a professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto and senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Dean is one of Canada’s top public sector leaders with extensive experience as an advisor on public service reform and building capacity for policy and delivery. He has been a senior advisor to two Ontario premiers.
From 2002 to 2008, Dean was secretary of the Cabinet and head of the Ontario Public Service. Dean is a recipient of the Order of Ontario and has received awards from the Public Policy Forum and McMaster University recognizing his contributions to public service.
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Sandra Laclé is currently director of the Health Promotion Division at the Sudbury and District Health Unit. She is a member of the health unit’s executive committee is a key decision maker in public health. Laclé’s professional passions include equity-focused health promotion, population health, chronic disease prevention and child health. During the past decade, she has led a number of health equity projects through the Ontario Public Health Association, the Association of Public Health Agencies, the Social Planning Council of Sudbury and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation’s Executive Training in Research Application program.
Laclé’s 20 year career at the Sudbury and District Health Unit has included roles as acting chief executive officer, acting director of the Clinical Services Division and director of the Nursing Division. Prior to joining the Sudbury and District Health Unit, Laclé worked for the Bonavista Peninsula Health Care Complex in Newfoundland. She began her career as a nurse at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in Newfoundland and as a public health nurse in rural Newfoundland.
Laclé is a lecturer in public health at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and a clinical associate with the School of Nursing at Laurentian University.
She has a bachelor of nursing from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a master of science in nursing administration and education from the University of Western Ontario. |
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Warren Law has been interested in health-care issues for many years. An executive in the financial services sector throughout most of his career, Law has served as an independent member of the Finance, Investment and Audit Committee of Canada Health Infoway since 2002. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Scarborough Hospital in 2008 as vice-chair and chair of the Directors Nominating Committee.
Law is the chair of the Independent Review Committee for Manulife Investment Funds and Webb Funds Management. From 2004 to 2007, he was chair of the Corporate Governance Committee, International Banking Federation.
Law attended the Commerce and Finance Program at the University of Toronto and has both his bachelor of laws and master of laws degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, has studied financial services at Cambridge University and in Basel, Switzerland and in 2005, he completed the Directors Education Program, Institute of Corporate Directors at the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto. |
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Richard Massé is the director of the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal and the former president and CEO of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ). He has a doctorate in Medicine from Sherbrooke University and a master‘s in Epidemiology from McGill University. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Community Medicine.
Massé has dedicated most of his career to public health. He has held positions serving as assistant deputy minister responsible for public health at the Ministry of Health and Social Services and chief medical officer of Québec, medical officer of health at the Community Health Department of the Montréal General Hospital and co-ordinator of the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Public Health Direction in Montréal. He also worked as a primary health-care physician at the CLSC Lac Etchemin and has international experience serving in Africa. |
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Liana Nolan is commissioner and medical officer of health of Waterloo. Prior to that, she served as associate medical officer of health for the Region of Waterloo Public Health, general manager for Saskatoon District Health and deputy medical officer of health for Saskatoon District Health.
Nolan obtained a doctor of medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1989, and her specialty training in Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She has been an active member in her community as a member of the Kitchener-Westmount Rotary Club, and recently served on the Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA and KidsAbility boards.
Nolan’s professional appointments include membership on the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa), Royal College Specialty Committee in Community Medicine, assistant clinical professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University and adjunct assistant professor for the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. |
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Pierre Richard is a senior lawyer with Lang Michener, where his practice focuses mainly on business law, acquisitions, advocacy and regulatory matters. He is also chair of Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. and Hydro Ottawa Ltd., and a member of the Departmental Audit Committee at Transport and Infrastructure Canada.
Richard has more than two decades of experience in health and education governance, having served as the chair of the board for La Cité Collégiale, the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (now Colleges Ontario), and the Ottawa General Hospital, a director of the National Capital Commission and the Ottawa Congress Centre, and as a member of the College Compensation and Appointments Council (Ontario). Richard earned his master of laws at Harvard University. |
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Janet Hatcher Roberts is the executive director of the Canadian Society for International Health, where she has overseen the design and implementation of global health systems strengthening projects since 1997. She is also the co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Technology Assessment, Knowledge Translation and Health Equity with the Centre for Global Health, assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine and an affiliate scientist at the Institute for Population Health with the University of Ottawa.
Roberts has extensive experience in international public health policy, health systems capacity building and research. Over the past three decades, she has been involved in global health and development and gender health projects at the International Development Research Centre, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada. She has also served as director of the Migration Health Department with the International Organization for Migration in Geneva. |
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As a long time leader in public health and infectious diseases, Ronald St. John has 35 years of expertise in the management of medical science for public health programs, legislation, and policy development.
St. John has managed infectious disease control programs in Canada and abroad. He has served as director-general at Health Canada where he was responsible for developing Canada’s first Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response for public health crises and disasters.
While at Health Canada and subsequently the Public Health Agency of Canada, St. John managed the federal health response to the SARS epidemic in Canada, rebuilt the Canadian Quarantine Service and co-founded the Global Public Health Intelligence Network. He is a well known publisher of scientific articles that have received numerous awards.
St. John has sat on a number of Canadian and international scientific committees including serving as chair of the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak and Response Network. Earlier in his career he worked for the United States public health service in specialty centres for disease control and prevention.
St. John has a bachelor of arts from Yale University, a doctor of medicine from Columbia University and a master of public health from Harvard University. |
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David Walker is a professor within the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine at Queen’s University and served as dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and director of the Medical School. He has been president of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and chair of the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine. Walker obtained his medical degree from Queen's University in 1971 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Internal Medicine) in 1975.
Walker was the founding chair of the Board of Directors, having served in this leadership capacity since his appointment in June 2007, shortly after passage of our enabling legislation, until February 2011. He continues to serve as a board member. Walker brings a wealth of experience from his service as chair of the Expert Panel on SARS and Infectious Disease Control. |
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Since retiring from her position as director of Education for the Superior North Catholic District School Board, Carole Weir has devoted herself to strengthening public health through public policy development and systemic and organizational change.
Weir has more than three decades of experience in education and health, and has fulfilled a wide range of administrative and governance roles in this sector, including co-ordinator, principal, consultant and superintendent of education for a district school board.
Currently, Weir is chairperson of the Southeastern Ontario Infection Control Network and a member of the Council of the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. Prior to this, she was the chairperson of the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Community Care Access Centre, president of the Ontario Physical and Health Education Association, and vice-chair of the Frontenac Board of the Algonquin Lakeshore Catholic District School Board. Weir obtained her master’s of education from Queen’s University. |
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