IPPH Institute Advisory Board Members – Biographies
Dr. Richard Massé, MD, FRCPSC, MSc (Chair)
Associate Professor
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
University of Montreal
Director
Montreal Health and Social Services Agency
Dr. Richard Massé has devoted most of his scientific career to public health. After serving in an international co-operation capacity in Africa, he worked as a general practitioner in the Lac Etchemin community clinic in Quebec’s Chaudières-Appalaches region, then became Director of the Department of Community Health of the Montreal General Hospital.
Dr. Massé has held the positions of Assistant Deputy Minister in Quebec’s Ministry of Health and Social Services and Director of Public Health for the province of Quebec for a period of 5 years. For the following 5 years, Dr. Massé served as President and CEO of the Public Health Institute of Quebec.
Dr. Massé is currently an associate professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montreal, where he also founded and directed the School of Public Health. Since Spring 2012, Dr. Massé has been Director of the Public Health Branch of the Montreal Health and Social Services Agency.
Mr. Ted Bruce, MA (Vice-chair)
Executive Director, Population Health, Vancouver Coastal Health
As Executive Director for Population Health with Vancouver Coastal Health, Mr. Bruce is responsible for the development of the health authority's strategy to address the social determinants of health and reduce health inequities. Working with the senior executive team and public health leadership, Mr. Bruce is responsible for the development of innovative approaches to health authority leadership, partnership, advocacy, and policy development to improve the health of various populations.
Mr. Bruce has over thirty years of experience in various policy development, planning and leadership positions in a range of public sector organizations including two provincial government ministries, a professional regulatory organization and health service delivery organizations at both municipal and regional levels. He has worked extensively with community groups to initiate health promotion efforts that address the needs of marginalized people and increase the involvement of communities in health care decision-making.
Mr. Bruce is an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Practice in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He has served on a number of Advisory Boards including The CAPTURE Initiative and the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, one of six national collaborating Centres established by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Mr. Bruce is Past President of the Public Health Association of BC. He has served in various capacities on the executive of the Vancouver regional group of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and the National Board and National Executive of IPAC. He served on the Board of the Canadian Center for the Analysis of Regionalization and Health in 2004 and 2005.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Bruce was Executive Director of the VCH Primary Health Care Network and before that Regional Director of Health Systems Policy and Community Involvement for Vancouver Coastal Health. From 1998 – 2001, Mr. Bruce was Vice President of Systems Development and Performance for the North Shore Health Region.
Dr. James Blanchard, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
James F. Blanchard is an epidemiologist and public health specialist who obtained his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1986. He subsequently received a Master of Public Health (1990) and Ph.D. in Epidemiology (1997), both from the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (Canada), and Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Public Health (awarded in 2004).
Since 2001, Dr. Blanchard has been living and working in Bangalore, India to support the implementation of HIV/AIDS programs on behalf of the University of Manitoba. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the Resident Coordinator of the India-Canada Collaborative HIV/AIDS Project (ICHAP), which is a 5-year project based in the states of Karnataka and Rajasthan designed to build capacities to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since December 2003, he has been the Project Director for the "Sankalp" Project, which is a 5-year focused HIV/AIDS prevention project in Karnataka funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under "Avahan", its India AIDS Initiative. In addition to his project-related work, Dr. Blanchard has provided technical assistance and strategic advice to a number of government and non-government associations, including the governments of Canada, India and Pakistan, the Canadian International Development Agency and the World Bank. Prior to his work in India, Dr. Blanchard was Manitoba's Provincial Epidemiologist and Head of the Manitoba Collaborative Epidemiology Unit (1992-2000). In that role he developed an applied program of surveillance and research of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. He helped establish internationally recognized research programs in inflammatory bowel disease and diabetes, and continues to conduct research in these areas.
Dr. David Butler-Jones, MD, MHSc, CCFP, FRCPC, FACPM
Chief Public Health Officer
Public Health Agency of Canada
Dr. David Butler-Jones is Canada's first Chief Public Health Officer. He heads the Public Health Agency of Canada which provides leadership on the government's efforts to protect and promote the health and safety of Canadians.
He has worked in many parts of Canada in both Public Health and Clinical Medicine, and has consulted in a number of other countries.
Dr. Butler-Jones has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been involved as a researcher in a broad range of public health issues. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba as well as a Clinical Professor with the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine.
From 1995 to 2002, Dr. Butler-Jones was Chief Medical Health Officer and Executive Director of the Population Health and Primary Health Services Branches for the Province of Saskatchewan.
Dr. Butler-Jones has served with a number of organizations including as: President of the Canadian Public Health Association; Vice President of the American Public Health Association; Chair of the Canadian Roundtable on Health and Climate Change; International Regent on the board of the American College of Preventive Medicine; Member of the Governing Council for the Canadian Population Health Initiative; Chair of the National Coalition on Enhancing Preventive Practices of Health Professionals; and Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Public Health in the 21st Century.
In recognition of his service in the field of public health, York University's Faculty of Health bestowed on Dr. Butler-Jones an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Dr. Roy Cameron, PhD
Executive Director
Homewood Research Institute
Roy Cameron, Executive Director of the Homewood Research Institute, spent most of his academic career in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He was Executive Director of the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact for 16 years, until 2011. Dr. Cameron has been a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford.
Early in his research career, Dr. Cameron did impact oriented science designed to guide tobacco control programs and policies that prevent disease at a population level. More recently he has worked with the Canadian Cancer Society, CIHR, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Public Health Agency of Canada and other agencies to create an environment that values impact-oriented science, and to build capacity for such science, with the goal of enhancing the well-being of individuals, organizations, and society. To that end, he played a catalytic role as a collaborator in creating the Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative, the Population Health Intervention Research Initiative for Canada and other capacity development initiatives. His Homewood role enables him to pursue this agenda of linking evidence and action in the mental health field.
Dr. Cameron has received honours for his career contributions from a number of organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine (Fellow), the National Cancer Institute of Canada (Diamond Jubilee Award), the University of Waterloo (University Professor designation), and the Canadian Public Health Association (Honorary Life Membership).
Angus Dawson, BA (Hons), MSc, PhD
Professor
School of Health & Population Sciences
University of Birmingham
Angus Dawson is Professor of Public Health Ethics and Head of Medicine, Ethics, Society & History (MESH) at the University of Birmingham, UK. He studied for his BA (Hons.) in Philosophy at Sussex University (1989), a MSc in the Ethics of Health Care at the University of Liverpool (1990) and a PhD in Philosophy, examining the methodology of applied ethics, at the University of Manchester (2000).
Dr. Dawson's main research interests are in public health ethics (particularly vaccinations and issues related to lifestyle choices) and the use of empirical evidence in moral arguments (particularly in relation to problems in gaining informed consent in clinical trials). He is joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Health Ethics and joint coordinator of the International Association of Bioethics' Public Health Ethics Network (InterPHEN). He has been involved in projects on a range of issues related to ethical issues for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (public health emergency and disaster response), the World Health Organisation (tuberculosis prevention, control and care), the European Union (obesity), the UK's Health Protection Agency (environmental radiation risks) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (public health ethics curriculum development, quarantine).
Dr. Dawson was Faculty Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (2007-2008) and then Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto (2008-2009). He continues to be involved in a number of projects in Canada including being part of the working group that produced the recent white paper on ethical considerations relating to non-research public health interventions for Public Health Ontario.
Ms. Debra Lynkowski, LLB (September 2009 - February 2013)
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Public Health Association
Debra Lynkowski has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) since 2007. Formed in 1910, CPHA is an independent, not-for-profit voluntary association and the national voice for public health in Canada, with membership that includes the public, 25 health disciplines and other constituencies.
Debra received her law degree from the University of Alberta in 1986. Following this, she began a career in the non-profit sector and for over 20 years has worked at all levels within the system: local, provincial/territorial and national. With an initial focus on fund development and volunteer development, Debra worked for both the Youth Emergency Shelter Society and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, managing diverse portfolios.
From 1993 to 1999, Debra served as Executive Director of the Canadian Diabetes Association (Alberta/NWT Division). During this time, she led the organization through a period of major organizational restructuring and reorganization. Managing a budget of over $6 Million and 40 staff province-wide, Debra was responsible for all aspects of the organization including membership development, board and volunteer development, strategic planning, and the start-up of a new business venture. She later took on a national role with the association in Ottawa as the Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, and established a national public policy and advocacy office for the organization. Highlights during this period included developing first-ever position statements for the association on key issues facing people living with diabetes, and creating the first Diabetes Report Card, a comparative assessment of diabetes prevention and care in Canada.
From 2002 to 2004, Debra participated in the Executive Interchange Program at Health Canada as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control. She then served as the Director of the Canadian Stroke Strategy, creating and leading the first national strategy for stroke prevention and care. With a focus on health systems reform, the strategy moved from inception to implementation in less than three years and helped to expedite and support the development of numerous provincial and regional strategies across Canada.
Over the years, Debra has built on her university education with continued professional development, including intensive programs at the Banff Centre for Management on Organizational Change, Executive Leadership, and Government Relations.
Debra was the first layperson to be awarded the Canadian Diabetes Association Sir Frederick Banting Award in 2002 in recognition of her contribution to advocacy efforts on behalf of people affected by diabetes.
Dr. Jeff Masuda, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environment and Geography
University of Manitoba
Dr. Jeff Masuda is a health geographer and specialist in community-driven knowledge translation who obtained his MSc in Health Promotion Studies and his PhD in Human Geography at the University of Alberta. After graduating, Jeff undertook postdoctoral fellowships at the McMaster Institute of Environment and Health as well as two CIHR Strategic Training in Health Research programs, including the University of Toronto's Health Care, Technology, and Place and UBC's Partnering in Community Health Research. Major themes under his program of research include environmental health justice, health promotion interventions, cities and health equity, dissemination, and transmedia methodologies.
One of Jeff's primary career motivations is to make environmental health research more responsive to the needs and priorities of society's most socially marginalized populations. Jeff is currently a CIHR New Investigator in the area of Knowledge Translation (2010-2015) and is founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Health Equity, a knowledge translation platform for enhancing linkages between community, research, and policy in order to address socioenvironmental inequalities in health. In this role, Jeff currently co-leads with the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment a two-year study focused on enhancing knowledge translation capacity for addressing environmental health inequities that affect children living in urban areas. As an Allergen NCE Investigator Jeff conducts research to improve peer support among low-income and Aboriginal children with allergies and asthma. Jeff is an award-winning teacher and is well known for his expertise in integrating social theory, participatory action research, and arts aligned research methodologies focusing on gaining a better understanding of the spatial context of environmental health problems affecting vulnerable and marginalized populations. For this work, he received the Julian M. Szeicz Award for Early Career Achievement from the Canadian Association of Geographers.
Dr. David Peters, MD, MPH, DrPH
Professor and Chair, Department of International Health
Director, Health Systems Program
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
David H. Peters is a specialist in international health systems who has worked as a researcher, policy advisor, educator, bureaucrat, manager, and clinician in developing countries over the last two decades. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health, and Director of the Health Systems Program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an academic program that focuses on research, teaching, and service in low- and middle-income countries and includes over 40 full-time faculty, 65 graduate students, and a research portfolio of over $60 million. His teaching and research focus on the performance of health systems, poverty and health systems, innovations in organization, technology, and financing of health systems, the role of the private sector, human resource management, and ways to use donor assistance to strengthen local capacity in low-income countries, pioneering the development of Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) in health.
Dr. Mark Petticrew, PhD
Professor
Department of Social and Environmental Health Research Faculty of Public Health and Policy London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Mark Petticrew is Professor of Public Health Evaluation in the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
He has a PhD in Psychology from Queen's University Belfast, where he also did his first degree. His research has involved primary research on the health effects of housing, urban regeneration, transport and employment interventions. He has also worked on systematic reviews of the effects on health and health inequalities of employment, housing, transport and tobacco control policies. He is one of the convenors of the Cochrane/Campbell Health Equity Group.
Other research interests include the evaluation of complex interventions, and the role of evidence in policymaking in different sectors.
Dr. Louise Potvin, PhD
Professor
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Université de Montréal
Scientific Director
Centre Léa-Roback sur les inégalités sociales de santé de Montréal
Louise Potvin completed her doctorate in Public Health from Université de Montréal and post doctoral training in program evaluation. She is currently professor at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montreal and Scientific director of the Centre Léa-Roback sur les inégalités sociales de santé de Montréal. She holds the Chair on Community Approaches and Health Inequalities. This Chair aims at documenting how public health interventions in support to local social development contribute to the reduction of health inequalities in urban settings. Her main research interests are the evaluation of community health promotion program and how local social environments are conducive to health. She was a member of the WHO-EURO Working Group on the Evaluation of Health Promotion. She is a member of the Canadian Reference Group on the Social Determinants of Health and of the WHO Scientific Resource Group on Health Equity Analysis and Research. She is a globally elected member of the Board of Trustees of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She has published 5 books and more than 200 papers and book chapters.
Jeannie Shoveller, PhD
Professor
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Professor Shoveller holds the CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Improving Youth Sexual Health in the School of Population & Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She also holds a Senior Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree and her Master of Arts degree, both with a specialty in health education, from Dalhousie University. Prof. Shoveller obtained a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia in 1997, and completed postdoctoral training at the BC Research Institute for Children's and Women's Health. She assumed her current faculty position in 1999.
Professor Shoveller's research program addresses the theme of reducing health and social inequalities among youth. She has written extensively about social context and structure as determinants of health, with a particular emphasis on investigating the impacts of gender, culture and place as key determinants of young people's sexual health. She also is well-known for her contributions to the use of qualitative methods as well as survey methodologies. She continues to serve on several peer review committees for the CIHR and other Canadian and international health research funding agencies. In addition, she reviews for many international and Canadian peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Shoveller also is a member of the National Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention Research for the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (formerly known as the National Cancer Institute of Canada). Prof. Shoveller is a member of several international collaborative networks, including an appointment as a Collaborating Professor at the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro and the Institute for Studies in Public Health, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Ms. Armine Yalnizyan, MIR
Senior Economist
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Armine Yalnizyan has written about labour markets and public finance for over 20 years since receiving her Masters of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto. After 10 years as program director with the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, she authored a ground-breaking report in 1998 on income inequality in Canada, entitled The Growing Gap. She reprised the topic of income inequality after the national economy had experienced 10 years of strong economic growth, releasing the report The Rich and the Rest of Us in 2007. Armine joined the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives as senior economist in 2008. Over the years she has served on advisory groups to Ministers at the federal and provincial levels with respect to labour and income support policies. She is the honoured first recipient of the Atkinson Foundation Award for Economic Justice, and received the Morley Gunderson Prize from the University of Toronto in 2003. Armine is a founding member and steering committee member of the Progressive Economics Forum and the Alternative Federal Budget. She also serves on the boards of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Canadian Association of Business Economists.
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