Our Advisory Board provides advice to our Scientific Director to inform and influence our work. The Board members bring a pan-Canadian perspective, and act as a liaison between our Centre and public health practitioners, students, researchers, policy makers and community groups. Members are practitioners and academics from most Canadian provinces and territories who come from a range of expertise, backgrounds and networks.
Gaynor Watson-Creed
Associate Dean, Serving and Engaging Society, Dalhousie University
(Chair) MSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC
Caroline Bennett-AbuAyyash
Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist, The Ontario Brain Institute
PhD
Carolina Jimenez Vanegas (she/they)
Family Nurse Practitioner at RISE Community Health Centre, Vancouver, BC
NP, MPH, RN
David Buckeridge
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
MD, PhD, FRCP
Erin Morton (she/her)
Associate Vice President, Research, Graduate & Professional studies, St. Francis Xavier University
PhD
Gayatri Jayaraman
Director General, Social, Justice, and Indigenous Statistics Branch, Social, Health, and Labour Statistics, Statistics Canada
PhD, MPH
Jasmine Pawa
Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
MD, CCFP, MSc, FRCPC
Kimberly R. Huyser
Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Marianne Jacques (she/her)
Scientific Lead, National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP)
Nancy Laliberte
Executive Director, Systems Transformation, Indigenous Health, British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority
Renee Boi-Doku (she/her)
Supervisor Nursing Quality Practice, Toronto Public Health
RN, MScN, CCHN(C)
Rod Knight (he/him)
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal
PhD
Sana Shahram
Assistant Professor, UBC, Co-Director, Equity Science Lab
PhD, MPH
Savita Rani
Resident physician, Division of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan
MD, MPH
Thilina Bandara
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan
PhD
