Climate Change, Communication and Mobilizing Public Health with Canada's Top Doctor: Dr.Theresa Tam

▶️  🗨️ We are excited to sit down with Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr.Theresa Tam, to discuss her personal thoughts about how this pandemic has  reshaped how we think about public health's role and new opportunities to synergize with frontline healthcare providers.  

🎬🎙️ Often climate change is not a top of mind issue  when it comes to healthcare planning and resource allocation. In anticipation of Dr.Tam's upcoming Annual report, we deep dive into how public health is building in plans to address climate change, extreme weather event, and the changing endemicity of transmissible diseases as a result.

💡   You also don't want to miss Dr.Tam's secret talent.

🎬NOTE: Links added below to Dr.Theresa Tam's Annual Report: Mobilizing Public Health Action on Climate Change in Canada as episode was recorded prior to release******

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/corporate/publications/chief-public-health-officer-reports-state-public-health-canada/state-public-health-canada-2022/report.html

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🟢 EPISODE TIME STAMPS🟢

02:08  Intro

04:21  Dr.Tam's journey from practitioner to public health leader  

07:48   Dealing with being a very public face and the pressures that come with it

14:55 Planning for the future of public health in Canada and the next "x" factor

21:18 Addressing gaps and needs in healthcare communication  

28:36 Mapping synergy betwen frontline healthcare providers and public health in Canada

31:03 At the intersection of climate change and public health planning

35:09 What does Dr. Tam  have to say to the next generation of leaders on the front line and potentially leaders in public  

           health?

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🎙️ ABOUT DR.THERESA TAM

Dr. Theresa Tam was named Canada's Chief Public Health Officer on June 26, 2017. She is a paediatric infectious disease specialist with expertise in immunization, emergency preparedness and global health security.

Dr. Tam obtained her medical degree from the University of Nottingham in the U.K. She completed her paediatric residency at the University of Alberta and her fellowship in paediatric infectious diseases at the University of British Columbia.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has over 55 peer-reviewed journal publications in public health. She is also a graduate of the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program.

Dr. Tam has held several senior leadership positions at the Public Health Agency of Canada, including as the Deputy Chief Public Health Officer and the Assistant Deputy Minister for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control. During her 25 years in public health, she provided technical expertise and leadership on new initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance, enhance immunization programs, strengthen health emergency management and laboratory biosafety and biosecurity. She has played a leadership role in Canada's response to public health emergencies including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), pandemic influenza H1N1 and Ebola.

Dr. Tam has served as an international expert on a number of World Health Organization committees and has participated in multiple international missions related to SARS, pandemic influenza and polio eradication.