Dr. Joe Vipond
Dr. Joe Vipond is an emergency doctor in Calgary, Alberta, the past-president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and a co-founder of the Calgary Climate Hub, Masks4Canada, Protect our Province Alberta, and the Canadian Covid Society. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Chris Houston
Chris Houston (FRSA, CFIRM) has worked as an international humanitarian worker for Doctors without Borders, the Canadian Red Cross and the World Health Organization (WHO). He is Faculty at the University of Toronto’s Global Health Education Initiative.
Chris has governance experience at Doctors without Borders Canada, ALIMA Canada, Conquer COVID-19, Humanitarian Partners International and the WHO’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. He is the co-founder of the Canadian Peace Museum charity.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and the Institute of Risk Management and serves on his local municipal government’s safety and wellness committee.
Cheryl White
Cheryl White, P.Eng, is a Lean leader and Professional Engineer with a track record of teaching and fostering an environment to drive cross functional team building and a passion for solving difficult problems.
She is a cancer survivor who was in active treatment at the onset of the pandemic which informs her passion to reduce transmission in healthcare, other workplaces, education and community settings.
Dr. Kashif Pirzada
Kashif Pirzada, MD, CCFP(EM) is an emergency physician based in Toronto with academic ties to McMaster University and the University of Toronto. He is a well known medical expert and commentator on local and national media, and is a co-founder of Conquer-Covid-19 and Masks4Canada.
He has served on a number of boards and quasi-judicial panels, including the University of Toronto Governing Council, the Ontario Consent and Capacity Board, and the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He is also a founder of a news and social media startup, Raven.
Dr. Marie-Michelle Bellon
Dr. Marie-Michelle Bellon is a specialist in internal medicine.
She practiced in community hospitals as well as in a clinic specializing in the care of HIV+ patients in Montreal.
Dr. Bellon is interested in epidemics and global health. In Quebec, she was involved in the Programme national de mentorat sur le VIH et les hépatites virales (PNMVH) and led the INTERVIR (Internal Medicine and Chronic Viral Diseases) group.
Since 2020, she is co-directing the Covid-Stop collective, worked on a Covid ward and blogged about her experience, in addition to speaking frequently in the media and developing her communication skills.
