I have been lucky enough to live, work and play within the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl ̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (TsleilWaututh) Nations. Since 2002, I have worked at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Currently (2023), I am the Medical…
Courtney currently calls Edmonton in Treaty 6 Territory her home… but has been fortunate to live all across Canada: from PEI to the home of the world’s tallest moose statue: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and many of Ontario’s towns and cities in between. She received her PhD in Medicine from the University of Alberta in 2020,…
Jonathon is an assistant professor at McGill University, with expertise in economic evaluation and epidemiology and a research focus in tuberculosis. He is interested in informing the design, cost, and implementation of interventions and programs aimed to support tuberculosis elimination in Canada and globally. He is also interested in investigating how best to design and…
Dr. Brett Edwards is a clinician and researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Calgary. He completed his subspecialty medicine training in Infectious Diseases before obtaining a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Mycobacterial Disease at the University of Toronto and West Park Health Care Centre. He obtained further clinical training in…
Adina Lakser is the Shelters Project Coordinator at the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) in Winnipeg. She joined NCCID in the summer of 2022, bringing over two decades of experience managing projects in the community and with the University of Manitoba to address health inequities, exploring topics such as women and HIV, sexual and…
Tina Campbell is an Indigenous woman of Cree Ancestry from Treaty 5 Territory. She has lived the majority of her life in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory. This is where she started her career in Public Health in a Tuberculosis Clinic. She has 11+ years of experience working in various levels within TB care as well as…
Igah Sanguya is from Kangitugaapik, Nunavut. Much of Igah’s work has focused on the connection between health and community. Igah has been a community health representative for almost 20 years. Igah is trusted by her community to answer questions and maintain confidentiality, and she is trusted and respected by other CHRs, nurses, and health staff…
Dr. Alex Petiquan is Anishinaabe from Wabauskang First Nation and graduated from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Thunder Bay, ON. His work during his pathology residency before joining the Federal government included evaluating medical devices as part of an Ontario Centres of Excellence grant on remote pathology solutions. He now works as a…
Kelsie McGregor is an Anishinaabe Kwe (Ojibwe Women, she/her) from Whitefish River First Nation, on the north shore of Lake Huron, and is from the Crane Clan. Kelsie received a BA in Psychology and Health Sciences in 2019, then a Master of Public Health from Western University in 2020. Prior to joining the Assembly of…
Catherine Dickson is a public health and preventive medicine physician working as a medical advisor for the Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Disease at the Public Health Agency of Canada, where she works on several aspects of vaccine preventable disease epidemiology, including vaccine safety. Catherine previously worked as a Field Epidemiologist in the Public Health…
Dr. Bryna Warshawsky is a Medical Advisor at the Public Health Agency of Canada working on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out response. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University and a past Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization. She has worked as the Associate…