Speakers

* as of May 21 – please continue to check the website regularly as more names will be added once confirmed 

Dr. Mustafa Al-Zoughool, University of Ottawa

Dr. Lihua An, Statistics Canada

Ms. Anne Arthur, Epidemiologist, Communicable Disease Surveillance Unit, Toronto Public Health

Dr. Neil Arya
, Director of the Global Health Office, University of Waterloo

Dr. Pierre Band, Senior Medical Epidemiologist, Health Canada

Ms. Julie Bernier, Chief, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada

Dr. Marc Brisson, Laval University

Dr. Heather Bryant, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Dr. Patricia Buffler, Professor of Epidemiology and Dean Emerita Kenneth and Marjorie Kaiser Endowed Chair, School of Public  Health - Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Rick Burnett, Health Canada

Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada

Mr. Peter Calamai, Science Journalist and and Adjunct Research Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University

Dr. Richard Cook, University of Waterloo

Dr. Ilona Csizmadi, Research Scientist/Epidemiologist, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Dr. Shalu Darshan, University of Ottawa

Dr. Michael Escobar, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Ms. Lee Fairclough, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Dr. David Fisman, Medical Epidemiologist, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Mr. Bill Flanagan, Chief, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada

Dr. Eduardo Franco, Professor, Department of Oncology, McGill University

Dr. Theresa Glaville, Professor and Chair, Mount Saint Vincent University

Dr. Vivek Goel, President and CEO, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Dr. Chris Gravel, Carleton University

Mr. Doug Haines, Manager, Chemicals Surveillance Division, Risk Management Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch Health Canada

Dr. Bob Hills, Health Canada

Ms. Hannah Hoag, Freelance Journalist and Board Member, Canadian Science Writers Association

Dr. Muin Khoury, Director, National Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick, AHFMR Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Dr. Laura Koutsky, University of Washington

Dr. David Krewski, Director, RS McLaughlin Centre for Population Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa

Dr. John Last, Professor Emeritis, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa

Mr. Tim Lougheed, Freelance Science Writer and President, Canadian Science Writers' Association

Dr. Loraine Marrett, Cancer Care Ontario

Mr. Les Mery, Program Director, Surveillance Action Group, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary

Dr. Noel Murray, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Ms. Victoria Ng, Doctoral student in Epidemiology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Astralia

Dr. Jillian Oderkirk, Director, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada

Mr. Ken Ogilvie, Environmental Consultant and past Executive Director of Pollution Probe

Dr. Tamer Oraby, University of Ottawa

Ms. Janice Pogue, McMaster University

Ms. Melissa Potestio, CIHR Doctoral Student, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Dr. Heather Strosnider, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Dr. Nigel Rawson, GlaxoSmithKline Canada

Dr. Duncan Saunders, Professor and Chairman, University of Alberta

Dr. Mike Sawada, Director, GIS Lab, University of Ottawa

Dr. Lauren Scott, Product Engineer, ESRI Canada

Mr. Jack Siemiatycki, University of Montreal

Ms. Jennifer Siushansian, Manager, Public Health Learning Solutions, ES Development Program, Epi Stream, Lead Professional, Public Health Agency of Canada

Dr. Robert Spasoff, Professor Emeritis, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa

Dr. Colin Soskolne, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta

Mr. Marc St-Denis, Assistant-director, Statistics Canada

Dr. Lehana Thebane, McMaster University

Ms. Michelle Turner, MSc. PhD candidate at the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa

Mr. Tim Trussell, SAS Canada

Dr. David Waltner-Toews, Professor, University of Guelph

Dr. George A. Wells, University of Ottawa and Ottawa Heart Institute

Ms. Kitty Wilkins, Senior Researcher, Health Information and Research Division, Statistics Canada

Dr. Nagarajkumar Yenugadhati, Cancer Epidemiologist, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa

Ms. Melanie Zahab, Doctoral student in Geography, University of Ottawa

Dr. Jan Zielinski, Research Scientist / Senior Statistician, Environmental Health Directorate, Public Health Agency of Canada

Dr. Susan Zimmerman, Executive Director, Secretariat on Research Ethics