Council Members 2013-2014
PresidentDr. Joel Kettner
Past-President
Dr. Maura Ricketts
Treasurer
Dr. Ingrid Tyler
Secretary
Dr. Sandra Allison
Dr. Thomas Piggott
Dr. Jia Hu
Member-at-Large
Dr. Ak'Ingabe Gyon
Member-at-Large
Dr. Helena Swinkels
Ex-Officio Member, Chair, PHPC Advocacy Committee
Dr. Maura Ricketts
Ex-Officio Member , Chair, PHPC CPD Committee
Dr. Barry Pakes
Ex-Officio Member, Chair, Specialty Committee for Community Medicine
Dr. Jane Buxton
Ex-Officio Member, Program Director Representative
Dr. Julie Emili
Ex-Officio Member, Quebec Community Medicine Association Representative
Dr. Isabelle Samson
Member-at-Large
Dr. Ak'Ingabe Gyon
Member-at-Large
Dr. Helena Swinkels
Ex-Officio Member, Chair, PHPC Advocacy Committee
Dr. Maura Ricketts
Ex-Officio Member , Chair, PHPC CPD Committee
Dr. Barry Pakes
Ex-Officio Member, Chair, Specialty Committee for Community Medicine
Dr. Jane Buxton
Ex-Officio Member, Program Director Representative
Dr. Julie Emili
Ex-Officio Member, Quebec Community Medicine Association Representative
Dr. Isabelle Samson
President
Joel Kettner MD MSc FRCSC FRCPC
Associate professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba;
Senior knowledge broker, National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba;
Adjunct professor, Department of Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Winnipeg;
Medical director and senior knowledge broker, International Centre for Infectious Diseases;
Medical advisor, Canadian HIV Vaccine Research and Development Initiative Alliance Coordinating Office, International Centre for Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Kettner was raised in the north end of Winnipeg and obtained his medical degree at the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1976. After two years of work in emergency medicine, he undertook his first residency program, obtaining his general surgery specialty certificate in 1984 (University of Manitoba). Following that, he obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the University of London School of Hygiene and Topical Medicine in 1986. He obtained his Community Medicine specialty certificate (University of Manitoba) in 1991.
Since then, he has worked at the University of Manitoba and as a Medical Officer of Health, first in rural and northern Manitoba and then in Winnipeg before his appointment as the Provincial Chief Medical Officer of Health in 1999 and as Manitoba’s first Chief Provincial Public Health Officer in 2007, a job he had until 2012.
After leaving government, Dr. Kettner has taken on a number of new roles. He was a director of the board of the Canadian Public Health Association from 2012-2014, and is currently a member of the board of the Canadian Association of Medical Education Foundation. He has been president of PHPC since 2013.
He and his wife Charlotte live in Winnipeg and Caddy Lake, Manitoba. They have six children and seven grandchildren.
Past-President & Ex-Officio Member
Dr. Maura Ricketts MD MHSc FRCPC
Director, Public Health Group
Research and Policy
Canadian Medical Association
Dr. Ricketts is a public health physician, with a Masters degree in Health Sciences and FRCPC in Public Health. Her professional career has been focussed on the development of public health surveillance systems and the development of public health policy. She developed the Canadian federal scientific policy underlying the management of blood safety for prion diseases and the Canadian CJD surveillance system. Dr. Ricketts worked for five years at the WHO where she was responsible for global programs and recommendations regarding prion diseases. In 2004, Dr. Ricketts changed her career path to begin working in PH policy as pertains to the health care system, first as the most senior medical officer in the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch in Health Canada, then as the Director General/A for the Office of Public Health Practice within the Public Health Agency of Canada. Dr. Ricketts is currently the Director of the Public Health Group in the Canadian Medical Association where she is responsible for public health policy development for the Association.
Treasurer
Dr. Ingrid Tyler
Ingrid Tyler is a physician at Public Health Ontario (PHO), Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Associate Course Director, Determinants of Community Health Course, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Ingrid has been working on PHOs equity mandate, including activities across the spectrum of knowledge generation, knowledge synthesis, knowledge exchange and capacity building, since 2009. Her activities include developing tools, training, research and reviews to support integration of equity considerations with local, provincial and national partners. Ingrid is also involved in health systems research, including the development of measures for the impact of knowledge organizations in health and evaluating equity planning tools.
Ingrid obtained her MD from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia. She completed her residency training at the University of Toronto and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and a certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Family Medicine. She also has a Master of Health Sciences from the University of British Columbia and a Masters of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Secretary
Dr. Sandra Allison
Dr. Sandra Allison BSc, MD, MPH,CCFP, FRCPC, is a Medical Officer of Health with Manitoba Health, in the Western Region based in Brandon, Manitoba. She completed her MD, MPH, and residency training in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Manitoba.
Resident Representative
Dr. Thomas Piggott
Dr. Thomas Piggott is pursuing training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, with Family Medicine, at McMaster University, and an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked with the Public Health Agency of Canada, and has diverse interests in research and the practice of public health, global health and leadership. In his spare time he enjoys running, hiking, climbing, and travelling.
Dr. Jia Hu
Dr. Jia Hu is a fourth year Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Toronto. He recently completed a Masters in Heath Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics. Previously he studied development economics at Harvard University. He has many interests in public health including health economics, health policy, global health, health systems integration, and pharmaceutical policy. In his spare time he enjoys squash, jogging, science fiction, and whiskey.
Dr. Ak'Ingabe Guyon
Dr. Ak’ingabe (a-king-ga-bay!) Guyon is from Montreal. She first trained and worked as an epidemiologist after obtaining her MSc in Communicable disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1999. She then embarked in medical studies and earned her MDCM degree at McGill University. She completed her family medicine training at University of British Columbia and her Community medicine specialty training at McGill.
Over the last 15 years, Ak’ingabe has cumulated public health work and training experiences in multiple regional and provincial Quebec public health institutions, rural and urban British-Columbia, East Africa, England and Denmark.
More recently she has worked as Public health and preventive medicine specialist in rural Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent) and now works at the Montreal Public health unit. Her main interests are around healthy public policy, public health systems and general public health practice."
More recently she has worked as Public health and preventive medicine specialist in rural Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent) and now works at the Montreal Public health unit. Her main interests are around healthy public policy, public health systems and general public health practice."
Member-at-Large
Dr. Helena SwinkelsEx-Officio Member
Dr. Barry Pakes
Chair, PHPC CPD Committee
Ex-Officio Member
Dr. Jane Buxton, Chair, Specialty Committee for Community MedicineEx-Officio Member
Dr. Julie EmiliProgram Director Representative
Ex-Officio Member
Dr. Isablelle Samson
Quebec Community Medicine Association Representative
Spécialisée en santé publique et médecine préventive depuis 2008, Dre Isabelle Samson c’est joint à l’équipe de la direction de santé publique du CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS en 2012. Elle œuvre en santé environnementale; son rôle consiste notamment à agir au niveau de la protection, ce qui comprend la gestion des risques en lien avec la qualité de l'eau, de l'air et du sol, mais surtout à prévenir ces risques et leurs conséquences en collaborant avec diverses instances pour réduire leurs présences, proposer des mesures d'atténuation et se préparer à mieux agir en cas de sinistre. Auparavant, elle travaillait à la Direction de santé publique de Montréal dans le domaine de la promotion-prévention en périnatalité et petite enfance. Elle est aussi présidente de l’Association des médecins spécialistes en santé publique et médecine préventive ou en médecine du travail.