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Mireille Lacroix

Mireille Lacroix is a Canadian public health official based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Career and Affiliations

University of Montreal

From February 2004 to April 2006, Lacroix was employed at the University of Montreal in human rights research.

Public Health Agency of Canada

Lacroix works as a manager for the Public Health Agency of Canada.1) She also acts as an ex-officio representative for the Public Health Ethics Consultative Group (PHECG) on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), responsible for approving COVID-19 vaccines in Canada.2)

She is also a Senior Policy Analyst with PHAC, a role she's occupied since April 2006.3)

At the outset of the creation of the PHAC, Lacroix authored a paper suggesting the agency should be modelled after the Quebec Public Health Ethics Committee.4)

Research

Lacroix has contributed to publications on genetic testing.5) 6) 7) 8)

She is listed by the National Collaborating Centre for Public Health Policy (NCCPHP) as an expert in “Public health law and ethics; Ethics and infectious disease law; pandemic planning.”9)

1)
Mireille Lacroix. GOC411. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/WpEgO
2)
National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation. (2020, December 18). Wayback Machine; Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218222110/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/naci-membership-representation.html
3)
Mireille Lacroix. LinkedIn. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/mireille-lacroix-01a24310/?originalSubdomain=ca
4)
Lacroix, M. (2005). Quebec’s Public Health Ethics Committee: A Model for the Public Health Agency of Canada. Alberta Law Review, 43(2), 511. https://doi.org/10.29173/alr1267
5)
Sharpe, N. F., & Carter, R. F. (2006). Genetic testing : care, consent, and liability. Wiley-Liss. https://books.google.ca/books?id=HpBMYPf3-y0C
6)
Lemmens, Trudo; Lacroix, Mireille; and Mykitiuk, Roxanne, “Reading the Future?: Legal and Ethical Challenges of New Predictive Genetic Testing” (2009). Books. 171. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/171
7)
Mykitiuk, Roxanne; MacRae, Andrew R.; Chitayat, David; and Lacroix, Mireille, “Prenatal and Neonatal Screening” (2006). Articles & Book Chapters. 2390. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/2390
8)
Mykitiuk, Roxanne; Turnham, Stephanie; and Lacroix, Mireille, “Prenatal Diagnosis and Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis: Legal and Ethical Issues” (2006). Articles & Book Chapters. 221. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/221
9)
McDougall, C. W. (2009). List of public health researchers and instructors across Canada. National Collaborating Centre for Public Health Policy. https://www.ncchpp.ca/docs/EthicsList_short_EN.pdf
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