Dr Sarah Henderson is trained as an environmental engineer and environmental epidemiologist. She is the Scientific Director of Environmental Health Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control and the Scientific Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). She is also a professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health.
Dr Henderson oversees a broad program of applied research, surveillance, knowledge translation, and training to support evidence-based environmental health policy and practice in BC and across Canada. She co-chaired the BC Safer Operations Working Group (SOWG) during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has significant expertise in indoor environmental quality as it relates to climate change and infectious disease.