Glenda Yeates

Affiliation

Deputy Minister, Health Canada

Committee membership

Governing Council (Ex-officio)

Biography

Glenda Yeates was appointed Deputy Minister of Health in April 2010, after serving as Associate Deputy Minister of Health since May of 2009. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Yeates served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) from August 2004 to April 2009. Previously, she served as the Deputy Minister of Health in Saskatchewan (1999 to 2004), and as Deputy Minister of Social Services (1997 to 1999). She held various Assistant and Associate Deputy Minister positions in Saskatchewan Health from 1990 to 1997, and a number of senior posts in the Saskatchewan Department of Finance.

Ms. Yeates has served in the past as chair of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on Health Services, as co-chair of the National Children's Agenda and as a board member of the Health Council of Canada and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.