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.

Pierre Richard, a lawyer, recently retired as Senior Partner and Counsel with Lang Michener, where his practice focused mainly on business law, acquisitions, advocacy and regulatory matters. He is chair of Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. and Hydro Ottawa Ltd. and a member of the Departmental Audit Committee at Transport, Infrastructure Canada, and the RCMP.

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.

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.

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.

Warren Law has been interested in health-related issues for many years. An executive in the financial services sector throughout most of his career, Warren was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Scarborough Hospital in 2008 and is Chair of the Directors Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.  He has also served on the Finance, Investment and Audit Committee of Canada Health Infoway.

A lawyer called to the Ontario Bar, Warren has both his LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School. Warren 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 Management, University of Toronto.

Janet Hatcher Roberts is the Executive Director of the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH), 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 Center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment 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, WHO, PAHO and Health Canada. She has also served as Director of the Migration Health Department with the International Organization for Migration in Geneva. She is currently on the boards of Make Poverty History and the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) where she chairs the Professional Nurse Credentials Standards Committee.

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.