Salim Yusuf is a Professor of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University and Director of the Population Health Research Institute. As a Rhodes Scholar, he initiated the concept of large simple trials, coordinating the first ISIS trial and developing concepts of meta-analysis. Subsequently, he has applied these principles to several other areas that led to the SOLVD and DIG trials in heart failure while at the US NIH, and more recently the HOPE, OASIS, CURE and CREATE trials since his move to McMaster University, Canada. He holds a Heart and Stroke Foundation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Jha is an influential figure in epidemiology and economics of global health. He leads the "Million Death Study" (MDS) in India, one of the largest health studies ever done. The MDS has demonstrated that smoking kills about 1 million adults annually, that malaria kills far more than estimated from earlier hospital records, but that the AIDS deaths are fewer than feared earlier. These studies have transformed Indian and global health. His research showing that prenatal sex determination followed by selective abortion in India accounted for up to 6 million missing females led to policy ...

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

John Floras is Professor of Medicine in the Divisionof Cardiology, University of Toronto. From 2004 to 2018 he held theCanada Research Chair (Tier 1) inIntegrative Cardiovascular Biology. He pursues innovative patient-oriented translational research into circulatory and cardiac control mechanisms withtherapeutic implications for conditions as diverse as hypertension, heart andkidney failure, diabetes and sleep apnea. Regarded internationally as a leadingexpert on hypertension, Dr. Floras has also broken new ground withcollaborative work on the prevalence of obstructive and central sleep apnea ...

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 ...