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National Advisory Committee on Immunization

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is a Canadian advisory body operating within the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).1) It is tasked with “providing guidance on the use of vaccines currently or newly approved for use in Canada to the Government of Canada.”2)

Organization

Members

Current

Name Position Notes
Shelley Deeks Chair Member of committees under World Health Organization and GAVI, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Robyn Harrison Vice-chair University of Alberta
Melissa Andrew Member -
Julie Bettinger Member -
Nicholas Brousseau Member -
Hélène Decaluwe Member -
Philippe De Wals Member -
Eve Dubé Member -
Vinita Dubey Member -
Kyla Hildebrand Member -
Kristin Klein Member -
Jesse Papenburg Member -
Anne Pham-Huy Member -
Beate Sander Member -
Susan Smith Member -
Sarah Wilson Member -
Matthew Tunis Executive Secretary -
- Liaison Representative for the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada -
Deshayne Fell Liaison Representative for the Canadian Association for Immunization Research and Evaluation -
Monika Naus Liaison Representative for the Canadian Immunization Committee -
Lea Bill Liaison Representative for the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association -
Lucie Marisa Bucci Liaison Representative for the Canadian Public Health Association -
Dorothy Moore Liaison Representative for the Canadian Paediatric Society -
Amanda Ung Liaison Representative for the Canadian Pharmacists Association -
Amanda Cohn Liaison Representative for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -
Martin Lavoie Liaison Representative for the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health -
Sarah Funnell Liaison Representative for the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada -
Eliana Castillo Liaison Representative for the Society of Obstetrics and Gyneacologists -
Lorette Dupuis Liaison Representative for the Canadian Nurses Association -
Jia Hu Liaison Representative for the College of Family Physicians of Canada -
Celia Lourenco Ex-officio Representative for the Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, Health Canada -
Erin Henry Ex-officio Representative for the Centre for Immunization Readiness, Public Health Agency of Canada -
Susanna Ogunnaike-Cooke Ex-officio Representative for Vaccine Safety, Public Health Agency of Canada -
Diane MacDonald COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance, Public Health Agency of Canada -
Vincent Beswick-Escanlar Directorate of Force Health Protection, National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces -
Guillaume Poliquin National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada
Tom Wong First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Indigenous Services Canada -
Kelly Robinson Marketed Health Products Directorate, Health Canada -
Mireille Lacroix Public Health Ethics Consultative Group -
Nicole Forbes Secretariat3) -

Former

Name Position Notes
Natalie Dayneka Member -
Soren Gantt Member Funding from GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Moderna, Pfizer
Coleman Rotstein Member Funding from Astellas, Avir Pharma, Chimerix, Cidara Therapeutics, Merck, Pendopharm, Pfizer, Roche, Sunovion, and Teva
Althea House Manager -
Deborah Danoff Ex-officio representative for the Marketed Health Products Directorate -
Julie Emili Liaison representative for the College of Family Physicians of Canada -
Jennifer Pennock Ex-officio representative for the Surveillance and Epidemiology Division of the Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases (CIRID) at Public Health Agency of Canada -
Robert Pless Ex-officio representative for the Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate at Health Canada -
1)
Public Health Agency of Canada. (2022, September 16). National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Terms of reference. Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20230406185629/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/terms-references.html
2)
Public Health Agency of Canada. (2022, April 22). National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation. Government of Canada. https://archive.ph/CDZrB
3)
Where Are They Now: Nicole Forbes. (2020, November 20). BioCanRx. https://web.archive.org/web/20230316080334/https://biocanrx.com/now-nicole-forbes
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