Speakers


Stacey Gabriel
Senior Director of the Genomics Platform
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Bronwyn MacInnis
Director of Pathogen Genomic Surveillance
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Anthony Fauci
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)

Roxanne Khamsi
Writer/Editor

André Picard
Author and Journalist, Health Columnist
The Globe and Mail

Catalina Lopez-Correa
Chief Scientific Officer
Genome Canada

Sharon Peacock
Executive Director and Chair, COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)
COG-UK

Jennifer Gardy
Deputy Director, Surveillance, Data, and Epidemiology
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jeffrey Joy
Research Scientist
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE)

Mel Krajden
Medical Microbiologist, Special Projects
BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)

Margaret (Peggy) Johnston
Independent Consultant
Former Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bonnie Henry
Provincial Health Officer
Province of British Columbia

Michael Ryan
Executive Director
WHO Health Emergencies Programme

Steven Hoffman
Scientific Director
CIHR Institute of Population & Public Health

Penny Ballem
Premier's Special Advisor on Health
BC Office of the Premier

Gina Ogilvie
Professor
University of British Columbia

Manish Sadarangani
Director, Vaccine Evaluation Center
BC Children's Hospital

Timothy Caulfield
Professor of Health Law and Science Policy
University of Alberta

Samantha Yammine
Director
Science Sam Media

Jessica Malaty Rivera
Science Communication Lead
The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic

Emily Vraga
Associate Professor
Hubbard School of Journalism And Mass Communication, University of Minnesota

Zabrina Brumme
Director, Laboratory
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE)

Lorraine Graves
Reporter
Richmond Sentinel

Asher Williams
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell University

Alex Dainis
Science Communicator/Video Producer
Helicase Media, LLC

Kristamarie Collman
Founder and CEO
Prōse Medical

Pascal Spothelfer
President and CEO
Genome British Columbia

Federica Di Palma
CSO & VP Research and Innovation
Genome British Columbia

Tony Brooks
CFO and VP, Entrepreneurship & Commercialization
Genome British Columbia

Ellie Griffith
Director, Sectors
Genome BC

Sally Greenwood
VP Communications, Education & Societal Engagement
Genome BC

Phoebe Melvin
Communications and Outreach Specialist
GenomeBC