Eileen de Villa
Dr. Eileen de Villa is an American-Canadian physician and public health official based in Toronto, Ontario. She is notable in the COVID-19 pandemic due to her role as Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto.
Affiliations
Family
de Villa is married to Richard Choi, a St. Joseph's Health Centre-employed physician who has direct financial ties to AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, HLS Therapeutics, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Servier.1) This was raised as a potential conflict of interest in March 2021 due to de Villa's role in imposing restrictive public health measures in anticipation of new pharmaceutical products to combat COVID-19, including COVID-19 vaccines.2) 3)
Career
Toronto Public Health
de Villa is Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto, employed by Toronto Public Health.4)
1)
Verma, S., Bucci, C., Choi, R., & Gupta, A. (2020, June 12). Navigating Vascular Protective Strategies in HighRisk Patients During the Current Era: Practical Applications. CardioVascUpdate. https://web.archive.org/web/20210304170904/https://cardiovascupdate.ca/files/2020/CV%20Update%20Symposium-Presentation.pdf
2)
Staley, G. (2021, March 4). Toronto’s Medical Officer, Dr. Eileen De Villa’s husband has financial relationships with major vaccine manufacturers - is this a conflict of interest? Diverge Media. https://archive.ph/pwrhX
3)
McGovern, C. (2021, March 8). Toronto lockdown czar’s husband has “financial ties” to Pfizer, AstraZeneca. LifeSiteNews. https://archive.ph/FHXyJ
4)
Toronto Public Health. (2019, July 26). About Dr. Eileen de Villa. City of Toronto. Retrieved November 23, 2021, from https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/city-administration/staff-directory-divisions-and-customer-service/toronto-public-health/about-dr-eileen-de-villa