====== Andrew Blackburn ======

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**Andrew Blackburn** is a Canadian [[public health]] administrator based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]].

===== Education =====

From 2003-2008, Blackburn attended the [[University of Calgary]] where he received a Bachelor of Arts, combined degree in English and Political Science.((//Andrew Blackburn.// LinkedIn. Retrieved May 11, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-blackburn-ba517510))

He then studied public policy at the [[University of Toronto]]'s [[Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy]].

===== Career and Affiliations =====

==== Government of Ontario ====

In 2015, Blackburn worked in a policy co-op for the office of the [[doug ford|Premier of Ontario]]. He then worked as an executive assistant for the [[Ontario Ministry of Housing]], and then [[Ontario Ministry of Energy]]. He moved to a legislative assistant position with the [[Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs]], before landing at the [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]], where he works now.
==== Mitacs ====

The following year, he worked for [[Mitacs]] as Assistant to the VP of National Partnerships. He registered as a lobbyist on behalf of the company in August 2016.((Cross, J. S. (2016, August 26). //Who’s lobbying for whom.// QP Briefing. https://archive.ph/8VXSg))
==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====

Blackburn is an observer of the Modelling Consensus Table for the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((//Our Partners.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143427/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/our-partners/))