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Bonnie Henry
Dr. Bonnie Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. She was appointed to this position in 2018, and has been responsible for BC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the drug overdose epidemic.1)
COVID-19
Preparations
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Henry was deeply immersed in pandemic preparedness as an area of study.
She co-authored a paper that proposed a public health emergency preparedness framework to promote resilience, alongside colleague Adalsteinn Brown (who would go on to co-chair the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and direct the Institute for Pandemic Preparedness at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, where he was also Dean.) 2)
Public Health Orders
On January 17, 2022, Henry's Office released an order requiring teachers and employees at educational facilities to report their vaccination status, under new powers delegated to regional health authorities.3)
1)
Biographies. Province of British Columbia. Retrieved January 17, 2022, from https://archive.ph/PMpwF
2)
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
3)
Henry, B. (2022, January 17). SCHOOL STAFF MEMBER VACCINATION STATUS REPORTING – JANUARY 17, 2022. Government of British Columbia. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/office-of-the-provincial-health-officer/covid-19/covid-19-pho-order-school-staff.pdf