Lizanne Béïque
Lizanne Béïque is a Canadian public health official based in Ottawa, Ontario. She is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Branch.
History
Education
Béïque attended the Université de Montréal for her Bachelor of Pharmacy and the University of Toronto for her Doctor of Pharmacy. At some point, she received a Certificate in Epidemiology in Public Health Practice from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She graduated with her Master in Education from the University of Ottawa in 2018.
Career
Béïque worked as Scientific Information Officer at Berlex Canada from 1995-1997. She founded PharmEd Consultants in 1999,1) and served as Director of Research and as a Clinical Pharmacist in HIV and Family Medicine at University of Ottawa Health Services from 2000-2004. From 2005-2013, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine.
She then worked as a HIV Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at the Ottawa Hospital until 2005, when she was promoted to Clinical Director of the Clinical Investigation Unit at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute alongside her work as a Clinical Investigator in the Clinical Epidemiology Program. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a Drug Information Pharmacist Specialist at the Ottawa Valley Region Drug information Service (OVRDIS).
In 2011, Béïque implemented the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the Ottawa Hospital, leading the program until 2019.
Béïque started working at the Public Health Agency of Canada in October 2019.
Activities
Research
Béïque has published research funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb.2)