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Scientific Director, Fonds de recherche du Québec

Janice Bailey is the Scientific Director of the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec - Nature etTechnologies (FRQNT). She is internationally recognised as a biomedical scientist, elucidatingthe paternal influences on developmental trajectories of health and disease; as an effectiveadministrator supporting trainees and diversity in research; as an advocate for issues ranging fromthe environment to health equality; and as an innovative thought leader in the health sciences.She has served in leadership capacities of major professional organisations, as an advisor togovernment, and has built strong ...

Professeur titulaire, University of Montreal

Dr. Malek Batal is Professor at the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health and Director of the WHO-Collaborating Centre on Nutrition Changes and Development. Holder of the CRC in Nutrition and Health Inequalities, he conducts participatory research studying the link between environment and food system health and population health, in an effort to redress health inequities. He operates in transdisciplinary research teams with First Nations in Canada and Indigenous and rural people internationally, prioritizing engagement with knowledge users from government ...

Professor, Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba

James Blanchard is an epidemiologist who has contributed to the development of scientific knowledge about what creates epidemics of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and in the translation of that knowledge into effective programs and policies to improve health globally. In Canada he has been a leader in developing methods to study the emerging epidemics of diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. Globally, he has advanced knowledge about the factors that generate HIV epidemics and translated that knowledge into high impact programs to control HIV in south Asia and Africa. He holds ...

Dr. Michael Brauer, Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health, is an internationally recognized expert in environmental epidemiology, and widely regarded as a global leader in exposure assessment of air pollution and evaluation of its impacts on population health. Dr. Brauer has advised the World Health Organization and the US State Department on air pollution, and led a working group for the International Agency for Research on Cancer regarding air pollution carcinogenicity. He is a leader in urban sustainability and the built environment; his global work and public health ...

Professor and Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr. Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown is the Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Prior to becoming Dean, Steini was the Director of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Dalla Lana Chair of Public Health Policy also at the University. Other past roles include senior leadership roles in policy and strategy within the Ontario Government, founding roles in startup companies, and extensive work on performance measurement. He received his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University and his doctorate from the University of ...

Distinguished Prof Emeritus, University of Waterloo

Roy Cameron is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo. He was Executive Director of Homewood Research Institute, the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact and the Canadian Cancer Society’s Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation which built out Canada’s behavioural cancer research capacity. He focused on improving the health of individuals and populations by integrating research with policy and practice. He did this by creating and leading networks he aligned with initiatives of other organizations to enhance collective ...

Professor, University of Montreal

Dr. Hélène Carabin is an infectious disease epidemiologist, professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and The School Of Public Health, Université de Montréal. She holds the CRC in Epidemiology and One Health. She is a pioneer in using innovative epidemiological and biostatistical methods to better determine how the interface among animals, environment and humans result in zoonotic infections which are of increasing clinical and public health importance in Canada and globally. Her research team's rigorous epidemiological approaches has led to the addition of cysticercosis and cystic ...

Professor, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Michael earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Waterloo (1979). He was the founding Director of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering (in 2009). Since 1989, his research focus has been in the area of health care resource modeling. As of January 2018, Mike had supervised 23 Ph.D. students, 90 Masters and more than 250 undergraduate engineering students in over 100 projects with industry partners. He is cross appointed to the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the School of Public Policy & Governance at Toronto. He was the winner of the Annual Practice ...

Professor of Medicine and Global Health (Adjunct), University of Toronto

Dr Chockalingam is clearly recognized for his leadership in building programs in Canada and globally for advancing noncommunicable disease research, prevention and policy. He has played leadership roles at five Canadian Universities, in government (Health Canada), research funding organizations (CIHR, NIH), and World Health bodies. His expertise in ‘social innovation’ is exemplified organizing large conferences with private/public sector funding. There are few Canadians who can boast of having had a more important and lasting impact on hypertension and cardiovascular disease prevention. Arun ...

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal

Dr. Patricia Conrod, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at Université de Montréal, holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Preventative Mental Health and Addiction. Dr. Conrod co-leads the Quebec Research Network on Suicide, Mood Disorders and Related Conditions (RQSHA) and the Canadian Cannabis and Psychosis Research Team (CCPRT). She developed a targeted drug and alcohol prevention program which was evaluated in multiple international trials and is now recognised as an evidence-based program in the U.S. Surgeon General's Report on Addiction, and the UNODC's International ...

Professor and Vice-Dean School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Dr. Davis, professor and vice-dean in the University of Alberta's School of Public Health received her PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University in 1984 and, in addition to the CAHS fellowship, is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. She has over 175 publications in cancer epidemiology, primarily on topics involving rare cancers. She had a distinguished career at the University of Illinois-Chicago prior to returning to Canada in 2012. While there, she served as division director of epidemiology and biostatistics, senior associate dean and associate dean of ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Professor, University of Toronto Raisa B. Deber of the University of Toronto is an internationally recognized expert on Canadian health policy. She is renowned for her ability to analyze major health policy issues at local, provincial, national, and international levels, and to develop novel conceptual frameworks backed by data analysis, which have generated policy-relevant conclusions that have significantly influenced health policy theory and practice. Through scholarship, mentorship, and championing of multidisciplinary teamwork, she has enhanced our knowledge of shared decision making, ...

Professor, Scientific Director, McMaster University

Dr. Maureen Dobbins is a world-renowned leader in evidence-informed public health. A professor of Nursing at McMaster University, she is building capacity among a generation of public health decision makers across Canada to find and use best available evidence for policy and practice. She created the world's most comprehensive database of systematic reviews in public health, a national knowledge broker mentoring program, a suite of online learning resources, and co-created a citizen-targeted evidence portal on optimal aging. She responded to decision maker requests for rapid reviews during ...

Executive Director, CRDCN, McMaster University

An outstanding health researcher and research administrator who pioneered research and teaching in health geography. He supervised doctoral students who are now health research leaders, led innovative interdisciplinary projects in population health, and founded the Institute of Environment and Health. As the University of Victoria's Vice-President Research, he was instrumental in establishing Canada's leading proteomics facility and in creating the Centre for Addictions Research BC. He chaired the Board of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and now continues his leadership as ...

Research Chair in Mathematical Epidemiology, McMaster University

Professor David Earn is an interdisciplinary scientist who combines mathematical analysis of dynamical systems with detective work on historical disease outbreaks to explore and understand complex epidemic patterns, from the Black Death in the 14th century to the COVID-19 crisis. Throughout the current pandemic, Professor Earn has been deeply involved in real-time assessment and forecasting of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. He co-leads the Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Diseases (CANMOD, https://canmod.net) and currently chairs the Ontario COVID-19 Modelling Consensus ...

Prof. & Chair in Applied Public Health, University of British Columbia

Guy Faulkner is a Professor and Chair in Applied Public Health in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. Coupled with a broader research interest in public health, his research has focused on two inter-related themes: the development and evaluation of physical activity interventions; and physical activity and mental health. He was founding editor of the journal ‘Mental Health and Physical Activity’ which fosters the inter-disciplinary development of this research field. He led the development of, and currently coordinates, the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey ...

Professor, University of Waterloo

I am the Founder and Chief Principal Investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), a research collaboration of over 150 researchers across 29 countries covering over half of the world's population and over two-thirds of the world's tobacco users. Since 2002, the ITC Project has created population cohort studies to measure and understand the factors that are related to tobacco use and to evaluate the impact of tobacco control policies of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on tobacco use. The ITC Project has published over 650 ...

Professor, University of Ottawa

Dr. Angel M. Foster is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University. A global abortion researcher, Dr. Foster leads projects in 22 countries. She has authored more than 100 articles and co-edited three books. She is the National Abortion Federation Canada’s Board Chair and Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. The recipient of numerous awards, she received the Guttmacher Institute’s 2017 ...

A leader in the study of physical activity promotion and prevention of eating disorders for over 25 years. One of the inaugural CIHR Applied Public Health Chairs, she pioneered the scientific use of innovative quantitative methodologies to study the reach, acceptability and outcomes of population level interventions including public bicycle share programs, inter-sectorial collaboration to promote healthy and diversified body image and grassroots initiatives to render built environments more sustainable. She co-presided the writing team that developed the Toronto Charter for Physical Activity, ...

Dr. Volker Gerdts is an internationally recognized expert in the development of vaccines for humans and animals. His work has contributed to the development of several vaccines, adjuvants and novel animal models, and has shed light on our understanding of the immune response to vaccines and infections in both humans and animals. His current research is focused on the interface between humans and animals (One Health) and the emergence of new diseases. Under Dr. Gerdts' visionary leadership, the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan has become a ...

Vice-Dean, MBA Programs, University of Toronto

A recognized leader in health sector policy and research, Brian Golden is the Sandra Rotman Chaired Professor of Health Sector Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, and Vice-Dean of Professional Programs. He is the Executive Director of the Collaborative for Health Sector Strategy, a policy, research and leadership development institute funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health. Recipient of Canada's Ted Freedman Innovation in Healthcare Education Award and the Canadian Medical Association's first Eureka Award for Innovation in Physician Education. Professor Golden's research influences ...

Emeritus Professor, University of British Columbia

Carolyn Gotay is a psychologist and researcher. Her long career in cancer prevention and controlresearch includes leadership rolesin academia and in the community. She has published over 175 manuscripts andhas received national and international support for her research. Dr. Gotay is an outstanding leader who works beyond the academy to improve the health of Canadians. She has headed pan-Canadian initiatives in cancer control. In addition, she directs the Cancer Prevention Centre, a partnership between the Canadian Cancer Society and the University of British Columbia. Dr. Gotay's work has ...

Professor, School of Public Health, University of Waterloo

Dr. Hirdes played an integral role in the development, evaluation and implementation of the interRAI famil of assessment systems, which has become a Canadian standard for assessing the needs of persons wit complex health problems across the continuum of health care. He developed novel decision support tool that are in widespread use in Canada and internationally to inform clinical practice, policy development resource allocation and quality measurement in home care, nursing home, and mental health settings Hirdes' contribution to improving the quality of health care for vulnerable Canadians ...

One of Canada's leading HIV/AIDS researchers and Director of the Drug Treatment Program of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. His research has informed Governments, enhanced best practice guidelines and provided essential evidence for groundbreaking policies including the expansion of anti-retroviral therapy in BC and elsewhere. His work provided the first global scientific evidence that HIV can be a long term chronic condition rather than a fatal disease in high income countries. This paradigm shift has reduced the fear and stigma surrounding the disease in both HIV positive persons ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo

Susan Horton holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University and an AM and PhD also in Economics from Harvard. She holds a research chair in Global Health Economics at University of Waterloo. She is also a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She has worked in over 20 low- and middle-income countries and has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, several United Nations agencies, and the International Development Research Centre, among others. She led the paper on nutrition for the Copenhagen ...

Professor of Health Promotion, Dalhousie University

Dr. Lois A. Jackson, Professor of Health Promotion, is internationally recognized for her community based, collaborative research with marginalized populations. Dr. Jackson's highly productive program of research identifies how social inequities impact access to health services, and her work draws attention to inequities across urban and rural places. She is a leader in population health research providing a voice for communities living socially and economically on the margins of society. Her research informs programs and policies, and has significantly advanced community-engaged scholarship. ...

Professor, University of Toronto

A renowned exercise physiologist, his expertise has been sought by national and international organizations to understand human performance capabilities and limitations in environmental extremes. Professor Jacobs is an academic leader who promotes the academic discipline of kinesiology as being integral to improving and sustaining the health of Canadians through physical activity.  

Heather Keller RD PhD FDC FCAHS is the Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of Dietitians of Canada. Research programs cross the continuum of care and are focused on improving the nutritional status and food intake of older adults. Her acute care program of research is focused on improving food quality and nutrition care processes to prevent, detect and treat malnutrition. Research in residential and long term care is focused on improving the nutritional and sensory quality of food, as well as enhancing the mealtime experience for ...

Professor of Physiology, University of Ottawa

An international leader in Human Thermoregulation, Dr. Kenny has made significant advances in measuring and understanding the human body's capacity to dissipate heat during exercise and/or exposure to hot environments. His findings are widely used to predict, prevent, and mitigate the health risks of workers exposed to hot environments, especially those who are older or have chronic conditions. He is training the next generation of researchers who will respond to the growing public health threats arising from extreme heat events. Dr. Kenny held an Ontario Ministry of Health career scientist ...

Professor and Head/Chief, Dalhousie University

Dr. Susan Kirkland is Professor and Head/ District Chief of the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University/Nova Scotia Health. She holds the distinctions of Dalhousie Distinguished Research Professor and AGE-WELL Honorary Fellow. An epidemiologist by training, her research lies at the intersection of chronic disease epidemiology and aging. She is one of three principal investigators to design and implement the internationally-renowned Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, a 20-year study of 50,000 older Canadians. Dr. Kirkland is recognized for her scholarly works ...

Director, Inst. for Advanced Study of the Americas and Prof, University of Miami

Felicia Marie Knaul dedicates her research and advocacy to reducing inequities and strengthening health systems to improve the wellbeing of vulnerable populations. Combining health systems science and economics, she has made policy contributions and pioneered research in women´s and children´s health, global cancer, palliative care and pain relief, and health financing. She founded Tómatelo a Pecho, a Mexican NGO dedicated to improving women´s health and transformed her breast cancer experience into evidence-based innovations for low-income populations. She directs the University of Miami ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa

Prof Labonté’s career began in public health service, where he developed population health promotion models that have had national and global influence. In 1999, he became inaugural Director of the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit. His research on globalization and health equity, supported by numerous research grants, led to a Tier 1 CRC award at the University of Ottawa in 2004. Prof Labonté exercised international leadership as Chair of the Globalization Knowledge Network for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. His contributions have been ...

Director, Ongomiizwin Research, University of Manitoba

Dr. Josée G. Lavoie is an international renown French Canadian scholar who, for the past thirty years, has been working in partnership with Indigenous communities and organizations to improve Indigenous peoples’ access to responsive health services. She is a professor in Community Health Sciences at the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, and Fulbright scholar. She is also Director of Ongomiizwin Research at the Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing. She is actively engaged in collaborations in Australia and New Zealand, and in circumpolar countries.

Professor, University of British Columbia

Kathleen Martin Ginis’ work focuses on innovating, testing, and implementing behavioural interventions to improve physical activity participation among people living with disabilities. She has received nearly $20M in research funding, published over 300 papers, and developed physical activity research tools, methods, and guidelines that are used worldwide. She has established two academic health-research Centres and leads multidisciplinary teams that have developed and disseminated over 150 knowledge-products and programs. Through interdisciplinary, community-partnered research and knowledge ...

Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Health, York University

Paul McDonald is a Professor of Health Policy and Managment and the former Dean of the Faculty of Health (2016-2022) at York University. He was previously the founding Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Health (2013-2016) at Massey University in New Zealand and spent 15 years in various leadership roles in the University of Waterloo including Director of the School of Public Health and Health Systems as well as Director of the Population Health Research Group. He has extensive managerial and governance experience in the public health and health care service sectors and has been a policy ...

Professor Emerita of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Public health physician, former three-term Dean and a Canadian pioneer in household food insecurity research. Contributions to the improvement and occasional transformation of a range of Government and non-Government Canadian institutions are the outcome of her ethos of service, skills in good governance and belief in the importance of civil society.  Her steadfast commitment to social justice and her unrelenting pursuit of excellence have left their mark on food insecurity policy analysis. A recognized mentor to students and colleagues at all stages of career.

Professor and Executive Director, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

John McLaughlin is Chief Science Officer and Senior Scientist at Public Health Ontario, and a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. As an epidemiologist he has an international reputation for his work on the origins of illness and in the strategic application of research findings to improve health at the population level. As an active scholar he has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. Professor McLaughlin established and directed large collaborative teams for major studies of the role of environmental and genetic causes of disease across ...

Dr. David Moher is an internationally recognized leader and pioneer in the conduct of randomized clinical trials, methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, developing guidelines for reporting health research, and for pioneering the emerging field of journalology (publication science). He is one of the most cited and impactful researchers in the world having published more than 700 peer-reviewed papers and holding an h-index of 126 with over 197 000 citations (Google Scholar, March 1st 2019); he has been formally recognized as one of the world's most highly influential biomedical ...

Dr. Kieran Moore is the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario, Canada, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Director for the Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen's University in Kingston. Dr. Moore has extensive experience in public health surveillance systems, pre-hospital care, and multidisciplinary research projects. His main areas of interest are: evaluation of various data streams for the early detection of ...

Professor, University of Manitoba

Dr. Stephen Moses is a physician and scientist who has made major contributions internationally to understanding biological and behavioural risk factors for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly HIV infection, and translating research findings into practice. Over the past 25 years, he has been at the forefront of investigating, and integrating into programs, three major innovations for HIV prevention: improved management and control of other “conventional” STIs; implementation of targeted, peer-led educational interventions for high-risk populations; and male circumcision for ...

Prof. & Director, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine is one of Canada’s most accomplished population health researchers and a driver of change at the community level to promote better health. Specializing in social epidemiology, Dr. Muhajarine has excelled in conducting research that is translated into change. He has led projects nationally and internationally, built research institutions and infrastructure, and is a highly sought-after mentor. Dr. Muhajarine exhibits remarkable depth and range in his scholarly work. He is at once a highly respected researcher, leader, and builder; a valued mentor and teacher; and an ...

Director, Public Health Risk Sciences Division, Public Health Agency of Canada

Dr. Nick Ogden is a UK-trained veterinarian (University of Liverpool), with a doctorate in zoology (University of Oxford), and was a professor at University of Liverpool’s veterinary school. He trained in disease modelling at Université de Montréal before joining the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), where he directed programs on climate change, infectious diseases, and zoonoses. He is now Director of PHAC’s Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, assessing disease risk by studying ecology and epidemiology of arthropod vectors and pathogens, and impacts of ...

Dr. O’Loughlin is a Professor in the School of PublicHealth at the University of Montreal School. She is a Tier 1 Canada ResearchChair in the Early Determinants of Chronic Disease, a member of the Carrefour de l’innovation et del’évaluation en santé at the University ofMontreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM), an elected member of the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, and a member of the Canadian Academyof Health Sciences. Her team is housed at the CRCHUM and in addition to localresearchers Dr. O’Loughlin has ongoing collaborations nationally andinternationally. Her research ...

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary

Dr. Patten is a psychiatrist and epidemiologist. His research applies population-based approaches to questions related to mental health, including the prevalence of mental disorders, associated risk and prognostic factors and patterns of mortality. He has led studies of medical-psychiatric comorbidity and mental health stigma in Canada. His over 800 publications have been cited over 50,000 times (HIndex: 72). He is recognized as one of the world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the ...

Professor, Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal

Dr Potvin, a Professor in Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Montreal, is an internationally recognized public health scientist. In 2001, she was selected in a national competition for one of only two CHSRF/CIHR Chairs in Health Services Research in public health intervention, a testament to the high quality of her work. Her research focuses on how programs that address social determinants in the community contribute to reducing health inequalities. Her expertise is much sought after. She helped develop Canadian policies to address health inequalities and the strategy for ...

Professor, Dept. Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

International expert on health services research methodology who pioneers innovative programs for analyzing big health data. His contributions have improved optimal use of big data in numerous health research studies worldwide to advance science and discovery, and change research practice in the use of health data. In 2014 and 2015, he was designated one of the most highly cited researchers in the world (top 1%) by Thomson Reuters. Hude leads Alberta's Strategies for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Methods Platform and directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in ...

Chef du Département de médecine préventive et santé publique, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Marie-France Raynault is a public health physician and Director of the University of Montreal’s Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. Her research and intervention interests focus on the social determinants of health, the impact of social policies on health, and the fight against poverty. In 2001, she founded OMISS (Observatoire montréalais des inégalités sociales et de la santé), an organization promoting knowledge exchange between researchers and decision makers. She is currently Executive Director of the Lea Roback Research Centre, which groups researchers from four Montreal ...

Professor, School of Excise Science, University of Victoria

Ryan E. Rhodes is a Professor in the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, Director of the Behavioral Medicine Laboratory, and Associate Director of the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria, Canada. His primary area of research is on the psychology of physical activity and sedentary behavior with an applied focus of physical activity promotion during early family development. Dr. Rhodes has held over 90 grants for this research and he has contributed over 300 publications on the topic as well as 25 book chapters and an undergraduate ...

Prof. & CRC, University of Toronto

Professor Catherine Sabiston is a Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Mental Health at the University of Toronto. She is an authoritative pioneer in interdisciplinary exercise and sport psychology, and is recognized globally for her innovative research in physical activity and mental health. Her exceptional expertise is at the intersection of body image and health. Sabiston improved vulnerable people’s health worldwide by designing sharable programs and measures to substantially improve access to quality physical activity experiences, especially for girls. She is also a tenacious ...

Chairman, Schlegel Health Care Inc.

Ronald Schlegel is an academic, innovator, entrepreneur, visionary, and philanthropist. After a 24 year academic career, he turned his focus to business and philanthropy. He founded the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging, focused on seniors’ care, and the Homewood Research Institute, focused on mental health/addictions. Through deep collaborations with academia and with practice sites, and by earmarking revenue from his businesses into building research capacity, Ron currently supports the academic careers of over 20 applied researchers, the Living Classroom model, and Living Research ...

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Epidemi, University of Montreal

Jack Siemiatycki is an epidemiologist. He has contributed to several areas of health research, most notably cancer epidemiology. He developed novel and influential methods of exposure assessment to investigate environmental and occupational causes of cancer, and has carried out large population-based studies of several types of cancer. His are among the most frequently cited epidemiologic results in the authoritative Monographs on Evaluation of Carcinogens of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. He has contributed to development of epidemiologic methodology. He has more than 300 ...

Professor, Western University

Dr. Kathy Nixon Speechley is a Professor at Western University and Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute and Children’s Health Research Institute. An epidemiologist, her primary research focus is determinants of quality of life in children with chronic health conditions with an emphasis on improving quality of life in children with epilepsy. Her publications describing key risk and protective factors for quality of life in childhood epilepsy have contributed to advances in family centered care. She is a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society, Past Chair of the Canadian Paediatric ...

Distinguished ProfessorEmerita, University of Saskatchewan

One of Canada's leading nutrition scholars and an internationally recognized authority on vitamin D and calcium supplementation. For over 40 years, Dr. Whiting has conducted research on dietary influences of bone health, effectiveness of nutrient supplements and calcium and vitamin D status. She has served on internationally significant boards and panels such the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Use of Dietary Reference Intakes in Nutrition Labelling and the North American Dietary Supplements Advisory Board. She received the Canadian Nutrition Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. ...

Professor, HEI, McMaster University

Dr. Lehana Thabane is a Professor in Biostatistics at McMaster University. He is a pioneer in health-research and clinical-trials methodology, celebrated as an academic mentor, and an advocate of evidence-based medicine and health care in Canada and the world. Dr. Thabane was the lead statistician on several trials that won national and international awards for their methodological rigour and impact on health policy and practice. He is dedicated to developing biostatistical expertise in the Sub-Saharan region of Africa and is distinguished by his extraordinary passion and aptitude for ...

Professor, University of Calgary

Dr. Suzanne Tough 's research on maternal health has led to fundamental changes in prenatal care, and clinical practice. She leads the innovative All Our Babies/Families study; a cohort of over 3000 families followed prospectively for 10 years resulting in a changed understanding of the relationship between early life events, mental health and long-term outcomes. She is a leader in translating evidence to practice, longitudinal research, and mental health. She is a Professor in the Cummings School of Medicine and has held leadership roles as a Scientific Director and Policy Fellow. She has ...

Professeur titulaire, Département de kinésiologie, Université Laval

Le Professeur Tremblay est un chercheur universitaire dont la carrière a été orientée envers l'étude de l'obésité humaine. Il a mis à profit avec justesse ses compétences de physiologiste spécialiste de la bioénergétique afin de mieux comprendre les déterminants de l'obésité et fournir aux professionnels de la santé des outils pour la prise en charge de cette condition. Cette recherche lui a permis de contribuer à la formation de plusieurs chercheurs dont certains sont devenus des chefs de file dans leur domaine de spécialité. Il figure parmi les spécialistes de la bioénergétique de l'obésité ...

Professor Mark Tremblay has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Sports Administration and a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education degree from Laurentian University.His graduate training was from theUniversity of Toronto where he obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of Community Health with a specialty in Exercise Science. Dr. Tremblay is the Director of Healthy Active Living and ObesityResearch (HALO)at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario ResearchInstitute and Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society ...

Dr. Ross E.G. Upshur is recognized for his significant contributions to primary care/family medicine research in Canada, particularly in multi-morbidity and the integration of public health and primary care, for which has been named one of Top 20 Pioneers in Family Medicine Research in Canada. Additionally, Dr. Upshur contributed to the resurgence of public health ethics as an academic discipline particularly with respect to work in ethics and infectious diseases helping Canada and other countries develop their approach to responding to outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, pandemic influenza and Ebola. ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Xiaolin Wei is a Professor and Dalla Lana Chair of Global Health Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Professor Wei is an internationally recognized leader at using implementation science frameworks in health service research, specifically in the control of tuberculosis, diabetes and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). His scholarship has reformed health policies to promote quality and equitable care in COVID-19, tuberculosis, AMR and diabetes at national and global levels. He has served as the Vice President and Secretary General of the International Union ...

Distinguished Research Professor, York University

Renowned applied mathematician Dr. Wu has made foundational contributions to supporting infectious disease public health decision-making strategies based on novel applications of the bifurcation theory, a mathematical theory of long-term epidemiological scenario analyses. Internationally recognized as a powerhouse in dynamical systems and data clustering, his disease modelling research provides critical insights on mechanisms behind complex patterns and is used to accurately forecast disease trends. He is a major contributor to a paradigm shift towards an extensive use of interdisciplinary ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta

Kue Young has played a pivotal role in the development of Aboriginal and northern health research in Canada and internationally. He was one of the first researchers in Canada to recognize the emerging diabetes epidemic among First Nations in the early 1980’s. He has contributed substantially to understanding the epidemiology and genetics of diabetes in that population, and its prevention and control. A population health research scientist of the first order, he received the CIHR Senior Investigator award 1998-2008. Dr. Young has authored six books on Aboriginal and circumpolar health, and a ...