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The Board of Directors provides strategic direction and guidance to the Association on matters concerning the delivery of public health programs and services by Ontario's health units. In particular, these issues relate to policies on public health funding, governance and the provincially-mandated programs that promote and protect the health of the population.
The alPHa Board comprises seven directors from the Board of Health Section (representing board of health members), seven from the Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health (a section of alPHa), and one from each of the seven Affiliate Organizations of alPHa representing public health dentists, health inspection supervisors, nurses, nutritionists, health promoters, epidemiologists, and business administrators. The final and only non-voting seat is held by the representative of the board of directors of the Ontario Public Health Association, bringing the total number to 22 directors on the alPHa board.
Terms for Directors of alPHa's Board run between Annual General Meetings, normally held in mid-June of each year.
alPHa Board of Directors - June 2010-June 2011
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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President:
Valerie Sterling
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Rep. Toronto Board of Health.
As an early childhood educator, teacher, consultant, project manager, community development specialist, Toronto Board of Health member, Chair – North Region Local Health Committee and member of the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) Board of Directors and Board of Health Section Executive, Valerie has been a strong advocate for more than twenty years of early child development, prevention and early intervention, fostering strong partnerships and building community capacity to provide support systems to promote improvements in the health of the residents of Toronto and young children and families everywhere. She has initiated, developed and implemented early childhood programs, early intervention projects, teacher education programs, established over 150 partnerships and coordinated readiness to learn research initiatives. Valerie has been recognized for her work by the Toronto District School Board, the City of Toronto, the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario and the Federal Government. Valerie has always worked to support a society that honours the residents of Toronto by working together with communities and all levels of government to improve health outcomes for all.
Valerie has recently served as Chair of the Board of Health Section and Vice-President of alPHa
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Vice-President:
Dr. Lynn Noseworthy
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Rep. Central-East Region
Dr. Lynn Noseworthy is medical officer of health for the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge Health unit. She has served as COMOH Chair and alPHa President.
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Past-President:
Dr. Charles Gardner
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Ex Officio
Dr. Charles Gardner is the Medical Officer of Health for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Health and is responsible for the overall programs and operations of the health unit.
Dr. Gardner joined the Simcoe Muskoka Health Unit in 2005, after having served as the Medical Officer of Health for the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit for seven years. Prior to that, he worked in general practice for four years in communities in Newfoundland and New Brunswick and worked for a year as well in Zimbabwe.
He received his medical degree from Queen’s University in Kingston. He gained a fellowship with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in the specialty of Community Medicine in 1998.
Dr. Gardner is the past chair of the Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health, is a past president for the Association for Local Public Health Agencies and is a past president of the Ontario Council for Community Health Accreditation.
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Chair, Board of Health Section:
Mary Johnson
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Rep. Eastern Region.
Mary Johnson is the Chair of the Eastern Ontario Board of Health
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Chair, Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health:
Dr. Paul
Roumeliotis
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Rep. East Region
Dr. Paul Roumeliotis is the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit. He received his medical degree in 1983 at McGill University and trained as a pediatrician at the Montreal Children's Hospital. He was Director of Continuing Medical Education in the Department of Pediatrics and founding Director of Multiformat Health Communications at McGill. Dr.Paul created and directed the Montreal Children’s Hospital Asthma Centre and Pediatric Consultation Centre in 1990. He completed his Masters of Public Health Degree at Johns Hopkins in 2009.
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Treasurer:
Maria Harding
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Rep. North Region.
Maria Harding is the Reeve of the Township of Shuniah and has sat on the Thunder Bay and District Board of Health since 1988 and has been an alPHa Board member since 2001.
Maria is the recipient of the 2008 alPHa Distinguished Service Award.
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Affiliate Representative:
Ellen Wodchis
Health Promotion Ontario (HPO)
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Ellen Wodchis has worked in public health for over 20 years. She is a Registered Dietitian and holds a Masters of Health Science (Toronto) and Master of Education (Brock). Currently she is the Director, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at Niagara Region Public Health. Ellen has been a member of Health Promotion Ontario public health (HPOph) for many years. She has represented HPOph on the Ontario Council on Community Health Accreditation board and was Chair in 2007 – 2008.
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MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
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Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health
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Vice Chair:
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe
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Rep. North Region.
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe was appointed as the Medical Officer of Health for the Sudbury & District Health Unit in August 2000. Before coming to Sudbury, she was the Medical Officer of Health for Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Her first position as Medical Officer of Health was with the Burntwood Regional Health Authority in northern Manitoba. A specialist in Community Medicine, Dr. Sutcliffe has a longstanding interest in socioeconomic inequalities in health and is a strong advocate for incorporating broader determinants of health into core public health programming. She is particularly interested in pursuing opportunities for healthy public policy development at the local and regional level and to this end is engaged with local healthy community initiatives and with critically examining and modifying local public health practice.
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Dr. Malcolm
Lock
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Rep. Central West Region.
Dr. Malcolm Lock is the Medical Officer of Health for the Brant County Health Unit, also acting as MOH for the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit
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Dr. Howard
Shapiro
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Rep. Toronto Public Health
Dr. Howard Shapiro is an Associate Medical Officer of Health with Toronto Public Health
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Dr. Allen Heimann
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Rep. South West Region
Dr. Allen Heimann is the Medical Officer of Health for the Winsor-Essex County Health Unit
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Board of Health Section
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Joseph Matko
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Rep. North East Region
Joseph Matko is a Provincial Appointee to the Porcupine Board of Health
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Vance Blackmore
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Rep. South-West Region.
Mr. Blackmore is a past Chair of the Middlesex-London Health Unit’s Board of Health and has been an active member of that Board since 1994. First elected as a councilor on Mosa Township council in 1992, he served as Reeve from 1994 to 2002. In 2002, Mr. Blackmore was elected Deputy Mayor for Southwest Middlesex, a position he holds to this day. He also served as Warden of Middlesex County from 2002 to 2003. A self-employed businessman, he has been providing hairdressing and barbering services to nursing home residents for the past 33 years.
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VACANT
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Rep. Central West Region.
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VACANT
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Rep. Central East Region.
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Affiliates
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Jo Ann Tober
Public Health Nursing Management
ANDSOOHA
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Jo Ann Tober is the Executive Director of the Brant County Health Unit.
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Gamil Shahein
Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario (APHEO)
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Gamil Shahein is the Manager, Health Information Epidemiology, Research and Evaluation and Senior Epidemiologist for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit
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Bjorn Christensen
Association of Supervisors of Public Health Inspectors of Ontario (ASPHIO)
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Bjorn Christensen is the Director, Environmental Health for Niagara Region Public Health.
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Paul Sharma
Ontario Association of Public Health Dentistry (OAPHD)
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Paul Sharma is the Manager of the Department of Oral Health for the Hastings-Prince Edward Counties Health Unit
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Dale Jackson
Association of Ontario Public Health Business Administrators (AOPHBA)
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Dale Jackson has been with the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit since March 1988 where he holds the position of Director of Administration. In addition to being a District Representative on the AOPHBA Executive since October of 1995, Dale has served as Vice-President and is currently serving a two year term as President of AOPHBA. He is also one of the AOPHBA representatives on the Public Health Financial Planning and Accountability Workgroup, having sat on the workgroup since its inception in 1999. He was a recipient of the alPHa Distinguished Service Award in 2007.
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Tracy Allan-Koester
Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health (OSNPPH)
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Tracy Allan-Koester is the Director of Community Health for Perth District Health Unit.
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alPHa - OPHA CROSS-APPOINTMENT
A reciprocal, non-voting cross-appointment between the Ontario Public Health Association and alPHa boards of directors was implemented as a means to increase collaboration and information exchange between the two closely related associations.
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Liz Haugh
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Liz Haugh is the current president of OPHA, and Director of Health Promotion at the Windsor Essex County Health Unit. She is a member of ANDSOOHA, HPOph and associate member of APHEO and OAPHD. She is also an adjunct associate professor with the Faculty of Nursing at University of Windsor.
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