Hasantha C. Sinnock

Hasantha C. Sinnock is an MSc student with the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Prior to graduate studies, she completed her BSc in biochemistry in 2008 and worked as an analytical biochemist for Health Canada for six years. Upon graduation, Ms. Sinnock hopes to pursue a career in epidemiology and promote the…

Songul Bozat-Emre

Songul Bozat-Emre, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba Pharmacoepidemiology, vaccine effectiveness and safety, population-based epidemiology of cancer / infectious diseases, aging, and administrative data

Eilish Cleary

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Originally from Ireland, Dr. Eilish Cleary received her Medical degree from Trinity College, Dublin. She came to New Brunswick from Manitoba where she worked as a Regional Medical Officer for several years before becoming the Medical Officer for Emergency Preparedness and Response for Manitoba. Before working in the Public Health field, Dr….

Leah Seaman

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Dr. Leah Seaman is the Regional Medical Health Officer for the Beaufort-Delta Health/Social Services Authority in the western Arctic town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Along with her work as a full-service family medicine provider, including ER and obstetrics, Dr. Seaman teaches residents and medical students from all over Canada and overseas through Beaufort Delta’s…

Barbara Yaffe

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Dr. Barbara Yaffe is the Director, Communicable Disease Control & Associate Medical Officer of Health for Toronto Public Health. Dr. Yaffe received her degrees as a Medical Doctor and Master of Health Sciences in Community Health and Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, and is a Fellow of the Royal College…

Kathy MacLeod

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Kathy MacLeod is a Home and Community Care Nurse Manager for the Southeast Resource Development Council in Winnipeg which develops, plans, and implements the Home & Community Care Programs for Little Grand Rapids and Pauingassi First Nations. In this role, Kathy oversees the management and technical infrastructure of these programs by…

Noni MacDonald

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Dr. Noni MacDonald is a Professor of Paediatrics (Infectious Diseases) at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre in Halifax Canada. She is a former Dean of Medicine. Her current three major areas of interest are: 1) Vaccines, especially vaccine hesitancy, vaccine safety, vaccine pain mitigation at immunization and AEFI surveillance…

James Irvine

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Dr. James Irvine has lived and worked in northern Saskatchewan since 1981, first as a family physician, then as the Director of University of Saskatchewan’s Northern Medical Services during its start-up years and since 1985 as northern Saskatchewan’s Medical Health Officer. James works in the Population Health Unit with the three…

Margo Greenwood

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Dr. Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, is an Indigenous scholar of Cree ancestry with years of experience focused on the health and well-being of Indigenous children, families and communities. She is Vice-President of Aboriginal Health for the Northern Health Authority in British Columbia and…

Sevgi Aral

Member, NCCID Advisory Board Dr. Sevgi O. Aral, PhD, MS, MA, came to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1978 to begin a career in Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) research and in 1993 became the Associate Director for Science in the Division of STD Prevention where she is responsible for the oversight…

James Blanchard

Dr. James (Jamie) Blanchard, BSc Med, MD, MPH, PhD, is a professor of Community Health Sciences and Medical Microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. He received his Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in epidemiology and global public health in 2004. Blanchard’s research aims to better understand the underlying determinants of epidemics, and ultimately…