Public Health Agency of Canada Expert Panel on Avian Influenza A(H5Nx) in Canada: Members
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- About membership
- Questions regarding affiliations and interests
- Expert panel member responses on affiliations and interests
About membership
The Public Health Agency of Canada Expert Panel on Avian Influenza A(H5Nx) is composed of a diverse membership to ensure a range of scientific, clinical and public health perspectives and advice. The panel is chaired by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Members include scientists, researchers and experts who are external to the Canadian federal government and scientists and experts from within the federal government.
Technical participants from federal departments and agencies will be invited to PHAC expert panel meetings on topics relevant to their areas of expertise. This includes PHAC, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Health Canada, Indigenous Services Canada, the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Questions regarding affiliations and interests
Affiliations and interests disclosed by extramural expert panel members were reviewed by the Chair and Secretariat. Disclosed interests are summarized below. In no instance was a declared interest assessed such that it precluded participation in the expert panel.
Members are expected to review their affiliations and interests against meeting agenda items and advise the Chair and Secretariat if they see a potential cause for concern regarding the integrity and objectivity of their participation. Based on this review, they will decide, if necessary, to limit a member's participation in all or part of the meeting agenda. They will inform the members of this decision.
Summaries are provided for each of the expert panel members based on the following questions.
1. Direct financial interests
- Do you, your spouse or common-law partner, or dependent family member have any direct financial interests that are of relevance to the mandate of the expert panel, including current employment, investments in companies, partnerships, equity, royalties, joint ventures, trusts, real property, stocks, shares, or bonds?
2. Indirect financial interests
- Within the past 5 years, have you, your spouse or common-law partner, or dependent family member received payment for work done or being done, or financial support, from a party that has an interest in the mandate of the expert panel? Include past employment, contracts or consulting, research support, personal education grants, contributions, fellowships, sponsorships, and honoraria for teaching, speaking, or writing engagements.
- Within the past 5 years, have you, your spouse or common-law partner, or dependent family member received materials, discounted products, gifts, or other benefits, or attended conferences or meetings where all or part of the travel and accommodation costs were provided by a party that has an interest in the mandate of the expert panel?
- Within the past 5 years, have any of the organizations where you, your spouse or common-law partner, or dependent family member are currently employed or participate in internal decision making (for example, as a board member or as an executive or non-executive director) received grants or other funding from a party that has an interest in the mandate of the expert panel?
3. Intellectual interests
- Within the past 5 years, have you provided any formal advice or opinion to industry; a Canadian federal, provincial, or municipal government; a foreign government; or a non-government organization on a matter of relevance to the mandate of the expert panel? Include, for example, expert testimony or acting as witness (full or part-time), participation on an advisory body etc.
- Have you ever made public a statement (for example, speeches or lobbying) or publicly stated a point of view (including in scientific papers, articles, journals, or other publications, or on other websites) on issues of relevance to the expert panel's mandate?
- Do you currently have any professional or volunteer affiliations (such as membership in professional or scientific societies, trade associations, or in public interest, or advocacy groups) that may have an interest in the mandate and work of this expert panel?
4. Other affiliations and interests
- Do you, your spouse or common-law partner, or dependent family member have any other affiliations and interests or potential circumstances that might give a well-informed member of the public reasonable apprehension or grounds for concern regarding the integrity and objectivity of your participation in this expert panel?
- Are you active on social media on issues relevant to this expert panel?
Expert panel member responses on affiliations and interests
Name and affiliation(s) | 1a | 2a | 2b | 2c | 3a | 3b | 3c | 4a | 4b |
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Guy Boivin Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Hélène Carabin Professor Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and Department of Social and Preventative Medicine School of Public Health, Director of the Research Group in Epidemiology of Zoonoses and Public Health (GREZOP), University of Montreal; and Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and One Health |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Stéphane Caron Medical advisor, Occupational Health Scientific Unit, Institut national de santé publique du Québec |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Dominique Charron Visiting scholar in One Health, University of Guelph |
No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
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S. Michelle Driedger Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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Judith Fafard Microbiologist-Infectiologist, Medical Director, Quebec Public Health Laboratory, Institut national de santé publique du Québec |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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Robert Fowler Barrie Fairley Professor of Critical Care at the University Health Network and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; and Chief, Tory Trauma Program, Sunnybrook Hospital |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Todd Hatchette Chief, Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nova Scotia Health Authority; and Professor, Departments of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, Dalhousie University |
No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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Sean Hillier Associate Professor & York Research Chair in Indigenous Health Policy and One Health; and Interim Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, York University |
Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
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Jessica Hopkins Chief Health Protection and Emergency Preparedness Officer, Public Health Ontario |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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Alejandra Irace-Cima Medical Advisor, Biological Hazards, Institut national de santé publique du Québec |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Alyson Kelvin Scientist II and Adjunct Professor at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Joanne M. Langley Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology and GSK-CIHR Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology, Dalhousie University; and Head, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, IWK Health |
No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
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Allison McGeer Infectious Disease Consultant and Senior Clinician Investigator, Sinai Health; and Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto |
No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
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Matthew S. Miller Executive Director, Global Nexus School for Pandemic Prevention and Response; Director, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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Samira Mubareka Scientist, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics, Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Sunnybrook Research Institute and Shared Hospital Laboratory; and Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto |
No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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Shayan Sharif Professor and Interim Associate Vice-President Research (Agri-Food Partnership), University of Guelph |
No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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Danuta Skowronski Physician Epidemiologist, Immunization Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control |
Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
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Kanta Subbarao Professor, Department of Microbiology-Infectiology and Immunology |
No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
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