IWH welcomes new science, KTE advisors

IWH is pleased to announce appointments to its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and its Knowledge Transfer & Exchange Advisory Committee (KTEAC).

Joining the SAC are:

• Les Boden, a professor and associate chair of environmental health in the School of Public Health at Boston University, U.S.A.;
• Eira Viikari-Juntura, a researcher at the Centre of Expertise of Health and Work Ability at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health; and
• Margaret Whitehead, who holds the W.H. Duncan Chair of Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Liverpool, U.K., where she is also the head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on the Social Determinants of Health.

The new KTEAC members include:

• Maureen Dobbins, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University and a scientist at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care;
• Paul Kilbertus, a corporate communications professional who has held positions with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Services Restructuring Commission and eHealth Ontario; and
• Jill Ramseyer, the health, safety and disability manager for the TDL Group, the operating company of Tim Hortons.

Source: At Work, Issue 57, Summer 2009: Institute for Work & Health, Toronto