Marcia Johnson

Dr. Marcia Johnson, MD is a Canadian public health official based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Johnson is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health for Alberta Health Services under Deena Hinshaw.¹⁾

She formerly served as Deputy Medical Officer of Health for the Capital Health Authority.²⁾ She has also worked as a clinical professor at the University of Alberta.³⁾

In a November 2005 interview, Johnson stated that a pandemic caused by influenza was to be expected, and that it likely would start in Asia.⁴⁾ She revealed that the Capital Health Authority, Alberta Ministry of Health and Health Canada were “co-ordinating their efforts to prepare Alberta for a pandemic, and in fact, for the worst possible pandemic.” She anticipated that such a pandemic “will cause a lot of illness and death in Canada.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson served as a representative for the Office of the Medical Officer of Health on the AHS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group. In this role, she contributed to an October 2021 publication asserting that COVID-19 vaccines prevent transmission is most cases.⁵⁾