====== Penny Ballem ======

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Dr. **Penny Janet Drury Ballem** is a Canadian physician and [[public health]] consultant based in [[canada:British Columbia]].

===== History =====

Ballem served as Manager for the [[canada:british_columbia:vancouver|City of Vancouver]] from 2008 to 2015.

Ballem is the chair of [[Vancouver Coastal Health]], a position to which she was appointed in January 2019.((//Dr. Penny Ballem.// (2020). Vancouver Coastal Health. http://archive.today/2022.04.29-010036/http://www.vch.ca/about-us/leadership/board-of-directors/board-members/dr-penny-ballem))

==== COVID-19 ====

Ballem was the executive lead of B.C.’s COVID-19 Immunization Program.((Ministry of Health. (2021, March 30). //Immunize BC, pharmacists move up vaccines for ages 55-65 on Lower Mainland | BC Gov News.// Government of British Columbia. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0061-000595)) For this, she was paid $404,913.75 between January and October 2021, placing her among the top paid public officials in BC in 2021.((Mackin, B. (2022, January 12). //COVID Exclusive: $405,000 and counting for B.C. vaccine boss Ballem.// TheBreaker. http://archive.today/2022.04.29-004605/https://thebreaker.news/news/ballem-bucks-continued/)) Ballem was contracted for $250-an-hour through her company, Pendru Consulting 354948 BC Ltd., for “analysis and planning” of the COVID vaccine project.

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/penny-ballem/|White Rose Wiki]]