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Core Indicator Members
 Core Indicator Members

Core Indicators Work Group - Current Members
Core Indicators Work Group - Past Members

Sub-Groups:
  Built Environment
  Injury and Substance Misuse
  Reproductive Health
  Social Determinants of Health
  Potentially Avoidable Mortality 
  Child and Adolescent Health


Former Sub-Groups:
  Healthy Eating Active Living
 
Cancer, Smoking and Sun Safety
  Infectious Disease
  Leading Causes 


Members of the Core Indicators Work Group (CIWG),
formerly the Provincial Health Indicators Work Group (PHIWG)
February 1998 – Present


Current CIWG Members:

Suzanne Fegan (Chair)
January 2010 – Present
KFL&A Public Health

Brenda Guarda 
January 2001 – Present
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit  

Susan Bondy
July 2001 – Present
University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Sherri Deamond 
January 2001 – Present
Durham Region Health Department, formerly Central East Health Information Partnership (CEHIP)

Lawson Greenberg 
November 2011 – Present
Statistics Canada

Natalie Greenidge
September 2011 – Present
Public Health Ontario

Shanna Hoetmer 
October 2006 - Present
York Region Community and Health Services
 

Ahalya Mahendra
November 2008 – Present
Public Health Agency of Canada

Virginia McFarland
February 2013 – Present
Grey Bruce Health Unit

Mary-Anne Pietrusiak
February 1998 – Present
Durham Region Health Department

Katherine Russell 
February 2006 – Present
Ottawa Public Health -
Currently on leave

 

Past CIWG Members: 
 

Brenda Wannell
October 2006 – June 1011
Statistics Canada
 

Nam Bains
March 1998 – August 2010
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, formerly HSIP, Health Information Partnership Eastern Ontario Region  

Brenda Coleman
January 2001 – August 2007
Formerly Elgin St. Thomas Unit

Evelyn Crosse
January 2001 – September 2004
Formerly Perth District Health Unit

Terry Delmore
February 1998 – November 1999
Formerly Halton Regional Health Department

Popy Dimoulas-Graham
December 2009 – October 2010
Public Health Agency of Canada
  

Jason Garay
December 2004 – December 2005
Formerly Durham Region Health Department

Vivek Goel
February 1998 – November 1999
Formerly Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

Dr. Lisa Hall
February 2007 – April 2008
University of Toronto

JoAnn Heale
February 2006 – March 2011
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, formerly Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health

Jane Hohenadel
July 2001 – April 2008
HSIP, Health Results Team, formerly Sudbury and District Health Unit and Porcupine Health Unit

Anne Marie Holt
September 2009 – January 2010
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge Health Unit 

Karey Iron
October 2006 – November 2008
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Services (ICES)

Luanne Jamieson
January 2011 – February 2013
Hamilton Public Health Services
   

Ian Johnson
February 1998 – November 1999
University of Toronto, formerly City of Toronto Public Health, North York Public Health Department

Brian Laundry
January 2001 – December 2002
Formerly Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Hyewon Lee-Han
February 1998 – June 2001
Formerly Peel Health Department, Ontario Ministry of Health, North York Public Health Department

Gillian Lim
June 2010 – March 2013
Public Health Ontario

Doug Manuel
March 1998 – December 2005
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and University of Toronto, formerly Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Cameron McDermaid
January 2011 – February 2013
Ottawa Public Health

Anjali Misra
April 2009 – November 2009
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Services (ICES)

Peggy Patterson
October 2009 – June 2010
Renfrew County and District Health Unit 

Carol Paul
May 1998 – October 2009
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Jennifer Pennock
July 2001 – December 2005
Formerly Ottawa-Carleton Health Department

Jo-Anne Peterson
May 1998 – January 1999, July 2001 – March 2005
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Health Unit

Nancy Ramuscak
January 2010 – November 2010
Peel Region Health Department
 

Vic Sahai
March 1998 – September 2001
Formerly Northern Health Information Partnership

Michaela Sandhu
October 2006 – November 2007 
Formerly Central LHIN

Ruth Sanderson
February 1998 – December 2005
Formerly Middlesex-London Health Unit, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Health Unit

Heather Schouten
July 2001 – October 2003
Formerly City of Toronto Public Health

Sue Schultz
April 2002 – December 2005
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

Patrick Seliske
February 1998 – February 2001
Wellington-Dufferin Guelph Health Unit, formerly Waterloo Region Community Health Department

Jennifer Skinner
October 2009 – November 2011
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit

Julie Stratton
February 1998 – February 2013
Peel Health Department, formerly Health Canada, Perth District Health Unit

Carla Troy
January 2001 – December 2005
Health Canada

Peter Walsh
October 2006 – June 2008 
Public Health Agency of Canada

Jessie Wong
May 1998 – May 2004
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Members of the Core Indicators Sub-Groups

Built Environment Sub-Group:

Ahalya Mahendra (Lead)
Public Health Agency of Canada

Brenda Guarda
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Brian Mosely (GIS Analyst)
KFLA Public Health Unit

Caitlyn Paget
York Region Community & Health Services Department 

Deborah Moore
Niagara Region Public Health 

Fabio Cabarcas
Halton Public Health

Ryan Waterhouse (GIS Analyst)
Niagara Region Public Health 

Steven Johnson (GIS Analyst)
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion


Sean Nix, MCIP, RPP
Professor Mohawk College


Thanks to the past members of the Built Environment Sub-Group:
Sarah Maaten
(Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit), Jennifer Skinner (HKPR Health Unit), Megan Williams (Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit), Jaime Chow (York Region Community & Health Services Department), Carol Craig (Sudbury & District Health Unit), Kristie Daniel (Halton Region Health Department), Donna Howard (Ministry of Health Promotion)


 

Injury and Substance Misuse Sub-Group: 

Suzanne Fegan (Lead)
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health

Natalie Greenidge
Public Health Ontario 

Jeremy Herring
Public Health Ontario

Christina Bradley
Niagara Region Public Health Department

Badal Dhar
Public Health Ontario

Jayne Morrish
Parchute Canada

Michelle Policarpio
Public Health Ontario

Sean Marshall
Public Health Ontario

Narhari Timilshina
Toronto General Hospital

Thanks to a special sub-group who helped develop two new indicators, Alcohol Attributable Hospitalizations and Deaths for the Injury and Substance Miuse Sub-Group:
Suzanne Fegan
 (Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health), Brenda Guarda (Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit), Sinead McElhone (Niagara Region Health Department), Jeremy Herring (Public Health Ontario), Natalie Greenidge (Public Health Ontario), Badal Dhar, (Public Health Ontario)

Thanks to the past members of the Injury and Substance Misuse Sub-Group:
JoAnn Heale (
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care), Brenda Guarda (Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit), Shelly-Ann Hall (Huron County Health Unit), Lee-Ann Nalezyty (Northwestern Health Unit), , Sarah Maaten (Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit), Jennifer Skinner (HKPR Health Unit).


Reproductive Health Sub-Group:

Mary-Anne Pietrusiak (Lead)
Durham Region Health Department

Amira Ali
Ottawa Public Health

Hilary Blackett
Waterloo Wellington LHIN

Becky Blair
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Jessica Deming

Region of Waterloo, Public Health


Arianne Folkema
Region of Waterloo, Public Health

Erin Graves

BORN Ontario

Caitlyn Johnson
York Region Public Health

Magda Mekky
Peel Region Public Health

Paula Morrison
BORN Ontario

Crystal Palleschi
Lambton County Health Unit

Carol Paul
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care


Thanks to the past members of the Reproductive Health Sub-Group:
Ali Artaman (Windsor-Essex County Health Unit), Jim Bottomley (PPPESO), Janet Bowie (MOHLTC) Hilary Caldarelli, Barb Chapman (GTA Niday), Ruth Croxford (ICES), Sherri Deamond (Durham Region), Sandy Dupuis (Niagara Region Health Unit), Karey Iron (ICES), Oren Jalon, Sherrie Kelly (BORN Ontario), Levina Kahumba (MOHLTC), Sarah Knox (MOHLTC), Rosita Liu (MOHLTC), Elizabeth Rael (Ministry of Health Promotion & Sport), Enayetur Raheem (Windsor-Essex County Health Unit), Nancy Ramuscak (Peel Health Department), Suzanne Sinclair (KFLA Health Unit), Julie Stratton (Peel Health Department), Asma Razzaq (ICES), Kirsten Rottensten (MOHLTC), Lorraine Telford (Public Health Ontario), Chee Wong (Ministry of Health Promotion), Graham Woodward (Cancer Care Ontario), Deshayne Fell (BORN Ontario), Fei Zuo (Public Health Ontario)


Social Determinants of Health Sub-Group:


Virginia McFarland (Lead)
Grey Bruce Health Unit

Sarah Edwards
Brant County Health Unit
 

Ziad Khatib 
BORN Ontario

Cameron McDermaid
Ottawa Public Health

Bill Kou
York Region Community and Health Services

Thanks to the past members of the Social Determinants of Health Sub-Group:
Suzanne Fontanna
(Region of Peel Public Health), Elizabeth Rael (Ministry of Health Promotion), Diane Patychuk (Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network), Fran Scott (Dalla Lana School of Public Health), Luanne Jamieson (Hamilton Public Health Services), Dinna Lozano (North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit), Alissa Palangio (Sudbury & District Health Unit), and thanks to Natalie Greenidge (Public Health Ontario) for her work with the group

 

Potentially Avoidable Mortality Sub-Group:

Jeremy Herring (lead)
Public Health Ontario

John Barbaro
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Elisa Candido
Cancer Care Ontario

Sherri Deamond
Durham Region Health Department 

Ramsey D'Souza
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit 

Andrew Harris
HKPR District Health Unit
 


Child and Adolescent Health  Sub-Group:

Fangli Xie (Lead)
November 2014 – Present
Durham Region Health Department

Becky Blair 
November 2014 – Present
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Debby Gregory
November 2014 – Present
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Debeka Navaranjan
November 2014 – Present
York Region Community and Health Services

Denis Heny
November 2014 – Present
York Region Community and Health Services

Dwight Bungay
November 2014 – Present
Region of Peel Public Health

Elaine MacIntyre
November 2014 – Present
Public Health Ontario

Karin Hohenadel
November 2014 – Present
Public Health Ontario

Frank Shi
November 2014 – Present
Eastern Ontario Health Unit

Suzanne De Haney
November 2014 – Present
Eastern Ontario Health Unit

Gloria Duke-Aluko
November 2014 – Present
Durham Region Social Services

Katrice Carson
November 2014 – Present
Hamilton Public Health Services

Lynne Frank
November 2014 – Present
HKPR District Health Unit

Sharon Vanderburg
November 2014 – Present
Algoma Public Health

Jordan Robson
November 2014 – Present
Algoma Public Health

Hannele Dionisi
November 2014 – Present
Algoma Public Health


Former Sub-Groups

Healthy Eating Active Living Sub-Group:

Suzanne Fegan (Lead)
January 2010 – Present
KFL&A Public Health

Elsa Ho
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Ahalya Mahendra
Public Health Agency of Canada

Fangli Xie
Durham Region Health Department

Elizabeth Rael
Ontario Ministy Health Promotion Division

Natalie Greenidge
Public Health Ontario

Jeremy Herring
Public Health Ontario

Katherine Russell
Ottawa Public Health

Thanks to the past members of the Health Eating Active Living Sub-Group:

Jennifer Skinner (Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit), Carma Lynn Koole (Niagara Region Public Health)

Thanks to Shanna Hoetmer, York Region Community and Health Services, for her valued leadship, and to Natalie Greenidge, Deborah Moore, Krystina Nickerson, Sujitha Ratnasingham, Catherine Shea and Wendy Young for their work on the sub-group.

 

 

Cancer, Smoking and Sun Safety Sub-Group:

Brenda Guarda
(Lead)
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Ali Artaman
Windsor Essex County Health Unit

Susan Bondy
University of Toronto

Jolene Dubray
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU)

Katherine Russell
Ottawa Public Health

Carol Paul
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Elizabeth Rael
Ministry of Health Promotion
 
Beth Theis
Cancer Care Ontario
 

Thanks to John Barbaro and Scott Leatherdale for their work on the Sub-Group.


Infectious Disease Sub-Group (2006-2011):

Sherri Deamond
(Lead)
Durham Region Health Department

Dara Friedman
Ottawa Public Health

Rachel Savage
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Vidya Sunil
Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit

Lindsay Whitmore
Ottawa Public Health

Stephanie Wolfe
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Thanks to Brenda Coleman, formerly of Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit for her valued leadership and to Anne Arthur, Joanna Oliver, Andrea Currie, Popy Dimoulas-Graham, Katherine Haimes and Siroos Hozhabri for their work on the sub-group.


Leading Causes Sub-Group:

JoAnn Heale (Lead)
Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

Jane Hohenadel
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Brenda Guarda
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

Katherine Haimes
Ottawa Public Health

Elizabeth Rael
Ministry of Health Promotion

Julie Stratton
Region of Peel Health Department

 


Last Revision:  June 25, 2014

 

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