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OAHPP is accountable to the minister of health and long-term care through the chair of the Board of Directors. According to its enabling legislation, it operates as a separate entity from the government but within a broader accountability framework set in government directives and procedures.
The board is responsible for strategic planning and for ensuring that OAHPP’s strategic, business and operational plans, policies and activities are consistent with the MOHLTC’s policy directions as communicated by the minister. OAHPP has the ability to communicate findings based on scientific and technical research and knowledge. However, in emergency situations, this communication will take place through the emergency chain of command. The board recruitment process is handled through the government’s Public Appointments Secretariat.
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David Walker is dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and director of the Medical School at Queen's University. A professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine, 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 fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (internal medicine) in 1975. He is also chief executive officer of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization.
Walker chaired Ontario's expert panel on SARS and infectious disease control in 2004 and the subsequent expert panel on the legionnaires' disease outbreak in the City of Toronto in 2005.
He was appointed chair of the Board of Directors on June 27, 2007 and six founding board members were appointed through orders-in-council in July 2007. |
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Terrence Sullivan has served as president and chief executive officer of Cancer Care Ontario since 2001. At the provincial cancer agency, he held positions in preventive oncology, research and most recently, as president and CEO. 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, including a period of time as deputy minister.
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 Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. He co-chaired the Agency Implementation Task Force which provided the governance and design blueprint for OAHPP. |
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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 LLB and LLM 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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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 an M.Sc. in Epidemiology in 1974. He subsequently completed his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1978.
He joined the faculty of OVC in 1978 and became full professor in 1990. Meek has held numerous leadership positions at OVC, including chair of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology and associate dean of the OVC, and from 1994 to 2004, he was the dean of OVC.
He has published widely in his discipline of Epidemiology, including a book, several book chapters and numerous scientific and other papers. Meek was a member of the OAHPP Implementation Task Force. For several years before retiring in 2008, he worked on a number of special projects for the University of Guelph and OVC. He continues to work on these projects as well as serving on several boards, including the Advisory Board for the Canadian Veterinary Reserve. |
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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 her MD 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 de Neuville 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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Judith Tompkins currently serves as chief of Nursing and Professional Practice, and executive vice-president at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH). Over her career, she has held senior positions within the field of mental health and addictions for organizations that have included the Vancouver /Richmond Health Board and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, where she was a regional director of mental health, and more recently, the Niagara Health System, where she served as regional program director, Mental Health and Addictions.
With a master’s in Nursing from the University of Calgary, she has extensive teaching and practical experience on issues related to community mental health, serving on the Clinical Faculty, Division of Community Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC) and as associate professor within UBC's School of Nursing. She is an assistant professor of Nursing at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor in Brock University's Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. She has been an advisor to health ministries in Canada and internationally on the delivery of mental health services. |
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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, she 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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Ronald Yamada co-founded MDS Inc. in 1969, and served as its executive vice-president of Global Markets and Corporate Affairs until his retirement in 2004. He was a member of the MDS Board of Directors for 33 years, and served as a board member of a U.S. high technology start-up company for four years. He has had broad senior management experience with MDS Laboratories, MDS Health Services and as senior vice-president of Information and Information Technology. In his role as executive vice-president, his team identified new science and technology developments or changes in international government policies which represented strategic growth opportunities. After graduating with a bachelor’s in Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1964, he joined the IBM Medical Team and worked with leading academic medical centres in North America to develop computer applications in medicine before leaving in 1969 to form MDS.
Currently, he serves as executive-in-residence for Health and Life Science Sector Strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, as a member of Cancer Care Ontario’s Performance, Planning and Research Committee, and sits on the board of St. Elizabeth Health Care.
He has served two terms as a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Western Ontario, and was the founding chair of its Technology Transfer and Commercialization Committee. He was a member of the Agency Implementation Task Force which developed the blueprint for OAHPP. |
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