Canada Research Chair in Population Health/Professor, University of Alberta

Dr. Sharma has worked with multi-ethnic populations in 20 countries over 30 years improving nutrition, reducing chronic disease risk factors, and endeavouring to improve healthcare access. Her research group utilizes unique evidence to inform, develop, implement, and evaluate successful community driven and based programs with local training and employment ensuring sustainability. Her research has informed policy and practice, particularly around cancer screening services, and is now focusing on capturing the diverse impacts of COVID-19 with Indigenous populations in Arctic Canada. She ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria

Dr. Margaret Penning examines aging, health and health care, and focuses particularly on social inequality and vulnerability on the one hand and family ties and relationships, caregiving, home and long-term care, and health care policy on the other. She takes a broad perspective, and advances both theoretically relevant and applied research across disciplines and in collaborative community-based contexts. Her research and outreach have improved health care for vulnerable people both directly and through policy changes across Canada.

Dr. Gina Ogilvie is a globally recognized leader in the field of women's reproductive and sexual health, with a particular expertise in cervical cancer. Her team's research has shaped global policy as the world strives to eliminate cervical cancer, including guiding policies on HPV vaccine dosing and optimal screening approaches for cervical cancer. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of HPV related cancers, and has received global recognition for her work and contributions, including YWCA Women of Distinction (2018) and American STD Association Achievement Award (2020).

Director, Centre of Genomics & Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and the Chaire d’excellence Pierre Fermat (France). She is Professor at the Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal and Senior Researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). She is a graduate of McMaster University (B.A.), University of Alberta (M.A.), McGill University (LL.B., B.C.L.), Cambridge University, U.K., (D.L.S.), Sorbonne Paris I) (Phd.) and was admitted to the Bar of Québec in 1985. She has authored numerous articles and books. Professor Knoppers is former Chair of the International ...

Professor & Chairman, Dept of Oncology, McGill University

Eduardo L. Franco, DrPH, FRSC, FCAHS, OC, PhD (Hon.)is James McGill Professor and Chairman,Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGillUniversity, Montreal. Since 1985, he has conducted epidemiologic research onthe causes of cancer and on the means to prevent it or to improve patientsurvival, topics on which he has published 460 articles and two books. He is mostly known for his contributions to our understanding of human papillomavirusinfection as the cause of cervical cancer and using this knowledge to prevent this cancer via vaccination and improved ...