Vanessa Gruben is a full professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Canada. Her research explores the law and ethics regarding assisted reproduction, harm reduction, organ donation and transplantation, and health care professions self-regulation. She is co-editor of the current edition of Canada’s leading health law text, Canadian Health Law and Policy (LexisNexis Canada). She is also Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, a hub bridging disciplines and sectors. Professor Gruben currently serves as a board member of the Canadian Health Coalition and AMS Healthcare. She clerked for Chief Justice Richard of the Federal Court of Appeal and then Justice Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was called to the bar in Ontario in 2003, after which she practiced as an associate in the litigation group of a national law firm. She joined the University of Ottawa after graduating as a James Kent Scholar from Columbia University’s Master of Laws program.

Roojin Habibi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, a Senior Visiting Fellow of the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health, and a Research Fellow of the Global Strategy Lab. Bridging the fields of international law, health law and human rights, her research examines normative interpretation and change in global health law. In 2019 she was the lead author and rapporteur of the "Stellenbosch Consensus Statement on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks", providing the world’s first in-depth interpretation of the legal parameters governing the application of cross-border health measures under the World Health Organization (WHO)’s 2005 International Health Regulations. She is currently contributing her expertise in ongoing negotiations to draft a WHO pandemic instrument and to amend the International Health Regulations as well as to advise WHO member states on the amendments.

Alice Betancourt is the Director, Legal, Regulatory, and Governance Issues at the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), where she provides leadership on health sector legal, risk, and governance matters. In this role, she supports the OHA’s response to emerging legislation, regulatory developments, and hospital governance issues through engagement with Boards. Prior to joining the OHA in 2014, Alice articled at the law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais, with a focus on litigation and health law practice. In that role, she was also seconded to the Legal Services Team of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Alice has also held policy roles with the Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. She has a Bachelor of Arts from York University (2009) and dual law degrees in common law and civil law from McGill University (2013).

Safura Abdool Karim is a public health lawyer whose research focuses on using law and regulation to improve population health outcomes. She is currently the Oxford–Hopkins GLIDE Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She holds an LL.B. from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her work examines legal and fiscal interventions to prevent diet-related non-communicable diseases. She has advised on national policy development in South Africa and contributed to multi-country studies across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr Raywat Deonandan is a Global Health Epidemiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. Much of his scholastic output involves the epidemiology of reproductive technologies and the ethics of global health interventions, as well digital technologies in health care and the creative use of administrative data to answer questions surrounding population health. He is a former Chief Scientist with the Canadian federal government, and an award-winning writer. In addition to skills in research, his strengths are media engagement, policy advising, oral presenting, and explaining technical concepts to a non-technical audience. He currently holds a funded Research Chair in University Teaching, focusing on the application of AI tools. Dr Deonandan also provides consulting services to governments, media, non-profits, and commercial interests. His services include the conduct of systematic reviews, the preparation of scientific reports for a variety of audiences, providing training in research rigour and science communication, and policy advice.

Roojin Habibi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, a Senior Visiting Fellow of the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health, and a Research Fellow of the Global Strategy Lab. Bridging the fields of international law, health law and human rights, her research examines normative interpretation and change in global health law. In 2019 she was the lead author and rapporteur of the "Stellenbosch Consensus Statement on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks", providing the world’s first in-depth interpretation of the legal parameters governing the application of cross-border health measures under the World Health Organization (WHO)’s 2005 International Health Regulations. She is currently contributing her expertise in ongoing negotiations to draft a WHO pandemic instrument and to amend the International Health Regulations as well as to advise WHO member states on the amendments.

Barbara von Tigerstrom is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, where she has been a member of faculty since 2005. She holds a law degree from the University of Toronto and Ph.D. in law from the University of Cambridge. She has received several awards for excellence in teaching and research, and has held research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Stem Cell Network, and others. Dr. von Tigerstrom’s main areas of teaching and research are information and privacy law, health law and policy, and tort law. She is the author of Information and Privacy Law in Canada (Irwin Law, 2020) and numerous articles and book chapters on privacy law, health information, and public health law and policy.

Y.Y. Brandon Chen is an Associate Professor and holds the Dean’s Research Professorship in Migrant Health Equity at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. A lawyer and social worker by training, Professor Chen’s research program examines laws and policies at the intersection of health and international migration, particularly the mechanics of health inequities facing noncitizens and racialized minorities. His published work has addressed such topics as health rights litigation, migrant and refugee health, social determinants of health, health care solidarity, and medical tourism. Beside his scholarly pursuits, Professor Chen engages in a variety of community-based work and pro bono legal services. He was previously the Vice Chair of the HIV Legal Network and Co-Chair of the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment.

Dr. Alex Petiquan is Anishinaabe from Wabauskang First Nation and graduated from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Before joining the federal government, his work during his pathology residency included evaluating medical devices as part of an Ontario Centres of Excellence grant on remote pathology solutions. He now works as a Senior Analyst in the federal sector, with focus spanning Indigenous public health, epidemiology, data sharing agreements, regional Indigenous community engagements and participating in joint departmental public health responses for emerging issues and COVID-19. His personal work has spanned First Nation governance and health policy. He is a member of the Health Expert Advisory Panel for Grand Council Treaty #3 in Northwest Ontario. Dr. Petiquan currently works at Inuit Tapiritiit Kanatami, the national representational body for Inuit in Canada, leading the Public Health and Tuberculosis files.

Patrick Fafard is a full professor of Public and International Affairs and holds the Research Chair in Science Diplomacy at the University of Ottawa. He has enjoyed a lengthy career that spans both government and academia. While with the Government of Canada he served as a Director-General in the Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat of the Privy Council Office, and at the provincial level he served in multiple capacities with three provincial governments, including as Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Commission on Medicare. Patrick’s academic interests are wide-ranging, and he is the author, co-author and editor of numerous publications on public health, trade, and environmental policies, and intergovernmental relations. His current teaching and research includes the public administration of public health, building the political science of public health, and global health governance to address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance.

Marco Zenone is an assistant professor of health science communication at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. He completed his Ph.D. in public health and policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He then completed his postdoctoral training as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. His research interests include public health and medical mis/disinformation, commercial determinants of health, digital platform governance, portrayals of public health topics in online and public spaces, and science communication.

Laura Rosella is a full professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, the Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, the Education Lead for the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine, and the Associate Director of Education and Training at the University of Toronto’s Data Science Initiative. Her additional scientific appointments include Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute and the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and Site Director for ICES UofT. Her research interests include population health and health equity, data science, predictive models to support public health planning, knowledge translation and evaluation, and population health management. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. She was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.