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| Dr. **Adalsteinn Brown**, DPhil, AB is the Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] at the [[University of Toronto]], and the Co-chair of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]. | Dr. **Adalsteinn Brown**, DPhil, AB is the Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] at the [[University of Toronto]], and former Co-chair of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]. |
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| He grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to New York in 1996 to co-found a healthcare consulting firm with offices on Park Avenue.((Mayer, A., McKinnon, M., Shulgan, C., & Smith, M. (2003, April 25). //top forty/under forty.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/PGKaF)) | He grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to New York in 1996 to co-found a healthcare consulting firm with offices on Park Avenue.((Mayer, A., McKinnon, M., Shulgan, C., & Smith, M. (2003, April 25). //top forty/under forty.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/PGKaF)) |
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| Due to his high-level positions and affiliations (particularly as Dean of the DLSPH), Brown "would effectively be [[the]] boss, and hold power over" several current Medical Officers of Health in Ontario including [[Eileen de Villa]], [[Barbara Yaffe]], [[Lawrence Loh]], [[Vinita Dubey]], [[Lisa Berger]], and [[Avis Lynn Noseworthy]].((Ronnie. (2021, May 15). //Meet Adalsteinn Brown: Swamp King; OST; Dean Of DLSPH; Ministry Of Health; Ford Operative; Premier’s Council.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/AeGUo)) | Due to his high-level positions and affiliations (particularly as Dean of the DLSPH), Brown "would effectively be the boss, and hold power over" several current Medical Officers of Health in Ontario including [[Eileen de Villa]], [[Barbara Yaffe]], [[Lawrence Loh]], [[Vinita Dubey]], [[Lisa Berger]], and [[Avis Lynn Noseworthy]].((Ronnie. (2021, May 15). //Meet Adalsteinn Brown: Swamp King; OST; Dean Of DLSPH; Ministry Of Health; Ford Operative; Premier’s Council.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/AeGUo)) |
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| | On August 3, 2022, Brown stepped down as co-chair of the OST to focus on his work as Dean of the DLSPH. [[Upton Allen]] took his place.((//Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table Leadership Update August 2022.// (2022, August 3). Public Health Ontario. https://archive.ph/24EaY)) |
| ===== Affiliations ===== | ===== Affiliations ===== |
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| ==== Caldwell Partners International ==== | ==== Caldwell Partners International ==== |
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| Brown was named one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 for his work on healthcare performance. selected by a panel of 29 business and community leaders assembled by the [[Caldwell Partners International]], an executive search firm in Canada. Brown was 32 years old at the time. | Brown was named one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 for his work on healthcare performance. selected by a panel of 29 business and community leaders assembled by [[Caldwell Partners International]], an executive search firm in Canada. Brown was 32 years old at the time. |
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| "Caldwell compiled a preliminary list of candidates from more than 1,400 nominations, a record. The panel then rated the finalists on six criteria: vision and leadership, innovation and achievement, community involvement, impact and strategy for growth."((Mayer, A., McKinnon, M., Shulgan, C., & Smith, M. (2003, April 25). //top forty/under forty.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/PGKaF)) | "Caldwell compiled a preliminary list of candidates from more than 1,400 nominations, a record. The panel then rated the finalists on six criteria: vision and leadership, innovation and achievement, community involvement, impact and strategy for growth."((Mayer, A., McKinnon, M., Shulgan, C., & Smith, M. (2003, April 25). //top forty/under forty.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/PGKaF)) |
| ==== CorHealth Ontario ==== | ==== CorHealth Ontario ==== |
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| In his U of T financial disclosures for 2018-2019, Brown reports receiving $25,000.00 from CorHealth (since absorbed by [[Ontario Health]]).((//Adalsteinn Steini Brown | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/hR1oD)) | In his U of T financial disclosures for 2018-2019 and his OST forms, Brown reports receiving $25,000.00 from CorHealth (since absorbed by [[Ontario Health]]) for "consulting on information management requirements."((//Adalsteinn Steini Brown | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/hR1oD)) ((Brown, A. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_Adalsteinn-Brown_20211014.pdf)) |
| ==== Hospital Report Project ==== | ==== Hospital Report Project ==== |
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| Brown has held senior leadership positions in policy and strategy within the Ontario government.((//Board of Directors.// Ontario Health. Retrieved May 15, 2021, from https://archive.ph/vQXKp)) | Brown has held senior leadership positions in policy and strategy within the Ontario government.((//Board of Directors.// Ontario Health. Retrieved May 15, 2021, from https://archive.ph/vQXKp)) |
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| He is also on the [[covid-19_pandemic:politics:doug_ford|Premier]]'s Council, which was created in 2018 to "provide the Premier of Ontario and the Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care with strategic priorities and actions".((//Hallway Health Care: A System Under Strain – First Interim Report from the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine - Public Information - MOHLTC.// (2018). Ontario Health. https://archive.ph/Srsll)) He was on the team that authored a report determining that Ontario's hospital system was already under strain well before [[COVID-19]] or the "[[divisive_rhetoric_about_the_unvaccinated|pandemic of the unvaccinated]]". [[Canuck Law]] notes, "Even back in 2018, 2019, the Premier’s Council openly admitted that the Ontario Health Care system was overburdened, and was unable to meet current needs, let alone projected increases. Adalsteinn Brown is on that Council. When he headed up Ontario Science Table the following year, did he simply forget his own report?"((Ronnie. (2021, May 15). //Meet Adalsteinn Brown: Swamp King; OST; Dean Of DLSPH; Ministry Of Health; Ford Operative; Premier’s Council.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/AeGUo)) | He is also on the [[covid-19_pandemic:politics:doug_ford|Premier]]'s Council, which was created in 2018 to "provide the Premier of Ontario and the Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care with strategic priorities and actions".((//Hallway Health Care: A System Under Strain – First Interim Report from the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine - Public Information - MOHLTC.// (2018). Ontario Health. https://archive.ph/Srsll)) He was on the team that authored a report determining that Ontario's hospital system was already under strain well before [[COVID-19]] or the "[[divisive_rhetoric_about_the_unvaccinated|pandemic of the unvaccinated]]". [[Canuck Law]] notes, "Even back in 2018, 2019, the Premier’s Council openly admitted that the Ontario Health Care system was overburdened, and was unable to meet current needs, let alone projected increases. Adalsteinn Brown is on that Council. When he headed up [the] Ontario Science Table the following year, did he simply forget his own report?"((Ronnie. (2021, May 15). //Meet Adalsteinn Brown: Swamp King; OST; Dean Of DLSPH; Ministry Of Health; Ford Operative; Premier’s Council.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/AeGUo)) |
| ==== St. Michael's Hospital ==== | ==== St. Michael's Hospital ==== |
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| Brown is the Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] at the [[University of Toronto]]. Prior to becoming Dean, he was the Director of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Dalla Lana Chair of Public Health Policy also at the University. | Brown is the Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]] at the [[University of Toronto]]. Prior to becoming Dean, he was the Director of the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Dalla Lana Chair of Public Health Policy also at the University. |
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| He is also the director of the Institute for Pandemics, which he said will “ramp up research and training for more agile, equitable preparation, resilience and recovery from pandemics.”((Lavery, I. (2020, August 19). //University of Toronto launches new Institute for Pandemics | News.// Daily Hive. https://archive.ph/vDfcB)) ((//Institute for Pandemics.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/pandemics/)) | He is also the director of the Institute for Pandemics, which he said will “ramp up research and training for more agile, equitable preparation, resilience and recovery from pandemics.”((Lavery, I. (2020, August 19). //University of Toronto launches new Institute for Pandemics | News.// Daily Hive. https://archive.ph/vDfcB)) ((//Institute for Pandemics.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Lham0)) |
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| === Massey College === | === Massey College === |
| Brown has been an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at the [[Western University|University of Western Ontario]].((//Key Researcher Profiles.// (2001, August 22). Hospital Report Project; University of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20010822143907/http://www.hospitalreport.ca/ResearcherProfilesPg4.htm)) | Brown has been an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at the [[Western University|University of Western Ontario]].((//Key Researcher Profiles.// (2001, August 22). Hospital Report Project; University of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20010822143907/http://www.hospitalreport.ca/ResearcherProfilesPg4.htm)) |
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| | ==== Workplace Safety and Insurance Board ==== |
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| | Brown was paid by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) as a member on their COVID-19 Expert Committee.((Brown, A. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_Adalsteinn-Brown_20211014.pdf)) |
| ===== Education ===== | ===== Education ===== |
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| He received his undergraduate degree in government from [[Harvard University]] and his doctorate from the [[University of Oxford]], where he was a [[Rhodes Scholar]]. | He received his undergraduate degree in government from [[Harvard University]] and his doctorate from the [[University of Oxford]], where he was a [[rhodes_scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]. |
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| During his time working as the principal investigator on the Hospital Report Project with the [[University of Toronto]], Brown was completing his doctorate in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine at Oxford on differences in hospital utilization and health care system performance in the UK and Canada.((//Key Researcher Profiles.// (2001, August 22). Hospital Report Project; University of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20010822143907/http://www.hospitalreport.ca/ResearcherProfilesPg4.htm)) | During his time working as the principal investigator on the Hospital Report Project with the [[University of Toronto]], Brown was completing his doctorate in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine at Oxford on differences in hospital utilization and health care system performance in the UK and Canada.((//Key Researcher Profiles.// (2001, August 22). Hospital Report Project; University of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20010822143907/http://www.hospitalreport.ca/ResearcherProfilesPg4.htm)) |
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| * [[https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-018-6250-7.pdf|December 5, 2018]]: //Public health emergency preparedness: a framework to promote resilience//((Khan, Y., O’Sullivan, T., Brown, A., Tracey, S., Gibson, J., Généreux, M., Henry, B., & Schwartz, B. (2018). //Public health emergency preparedness: a framework to promote resilience.// BMC Public Health, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6250-7)) | * [[https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-018-6250-7.pdf|December 5, 2018]]: //Public health emergency preparedness: a framework to promote resilience//((Khan, Y., O’Sullivan, T., Brown, A., Tracey, S., Gibson, J., Généreux, M., Henry, B., & Schwartz, B. (2018). //Public health emergency preparedness: a framework to promote resilience.// BMC Public Health, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6250-7)) |
| * Co-authored by [[Bonnie Henry]], who would act as Provincial Health Officer for [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] | * Co-authored by [[Bonnie Henry]] (who would act as Provincial Health Officer for [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]), and Brown's OST Co-Chair [[Brian Schwartz]]. |
| * Funded by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) | * Funded by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) |
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| * [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-6773.12847|October 2018]]: //Development of Enriched CoreCompetencies for Health Services and Policy Research//((Bornstein, S., Heritage, M., Chudak, A., Tamblyn, R., McMahon, M., & Brown, A. D. (2018). //Development of Enriched Core Competencies for Health Services and Policy Research.// Health Services Research, 53, 4004–4023. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12847)) | * [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-6773.12847|October 2018]]: //Development of Enriched Core Competencies for Health Services and Policy Research//((Bornstein, S., Heritage, M., Chudak, A., Tamblyn, R., McMahon, M., & Brown, A. D. (2018). //Development of Enriched Core Competencies for Health Services and Policy Research.// Health Services Research, 53, 4004–4023. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12847)) |
| * Funded by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]]’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR) via its Institute Strategic Grant and by a CIHR-IHSPR Institute Community Support Grant held by Dr. Adalsteinn Brown and Dr. Stephen Bornstein | * Funded by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]]’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR) via its Institute Strategic Grant and by a CIHR-IHSPR Institute Community Support Grant held by Dr. Adalsteinn Brown and Dr. Stephen Bornstein |
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| * [[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28219957/|February 20, 2017]]: //Evaluating investment in quality improvement capacity building: a systematic review//((Mery, G., Dobrow, M. J., Baker, G. R., Im, J., & Brown, A. (2017). //Evaluating investment in quality improvement capacity building: a systematic review.// BMJ Open, 7(2), e012431. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012431)) | * [[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28219957/|February 20, 2017]]: //Evaluating investment in quality improvement capacity building: a systematic review//((Mery, G., Dobrow, M. J., Baker, G. R., Im, J., & Brown, A. (2017). //Evaluating investment in quality improvement capacity building: a systematic review.// BMJ Open, 7(2), e012431. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012431)) |
| * Funded by Improving & Driving Excellence Across Sectors ([[IDEAS Initiative]]), which is funded by the [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]] and partnered with the [[University of Toronto]], [[Health Quality Ontario]] (HQO), [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[McMaster University]], [[Northern Ontario School of Medicine]], [[Queen's University]], [[University of Ottawa]], and Western University.((//About IDEAS.// IDEAS. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Xx24h)) | * Funded by Improving & Driving Excellence Across Sectors ([[IDEAS Initiative]]), which is funded by the [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]] and partnered with the [[University of Toronto]], [[Health Quality Ontario]] (HQO), [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[McMaster University]], [[Northern Ontario School of Medicine]], [[Queen's University]], [[University of Ottawa]], and Western University.((//About IDEAS.// IDEAS. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Xx24h)) |
