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…
Kate O’Connor is a Registered Nurse Educator with the Community Antimicrobial Stewardship team at the BC Centre for Disease Control. As a settler on the traditional and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Musqueum, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh Nations, Kate is very grateful to live on this land and learn from traditional ways of knowing and…