Standing Committee on Science
The Standing Committee on Science is a standing committee of Governing Council. The Standing Committee on Science is composed of a group of visionary leaders in health research that identifies and advises Governing Council on opportunities and risks in consideration of CIHR’s strategic directions; and helps inform new horizons in health research through analysis of global and national trends in the health research ecosystem.
Members
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Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
(Chair)
Inaugural Chair, Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy
Co-Scientific Director, DNA to RNA (D2R), An inclusive Canadian approach (Canada First Research Excellence Fund)
McGill University
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Paul Allison
Faculty of Dental Medicine & Oral Health Sciences
McGill University
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Sylvain Baillet
Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering at the Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital, McGill University
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Cheryl Barnabe
Rheumatologist
Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Science
University of Calgary
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Balram Bhargava
Professor of Cardiology at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences
Executive Director for Stanford India Biodesign Centre, School of International Biodesign (SiB)
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Christine Chambers
Professor in the departments of Psychology & Neuroscience and Pediatrics at Dalhousie University
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Christine Fahim
Scientist and Director, TIES
St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Associate, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
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Dermot Kelleher
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health
University of British Columbia
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Claudia Paarmann-Chien
Neuroscientist and magnetic resonance imaging Team Lead
Charité- University Hospital Berlin
Germany
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Rulan S. Parekh
Vice President, Academics, Women’s College Hospital
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Toronto
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Norman Rosenblum
Professor of pediatrics, physiology, and laboratory medicine and pathobiology, University of Toronto
Pediatric nephrologist and senior scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
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John-Arne Røttingen
Chief Executive Officer of Wellcome, UK
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Lisa Saksida
Co-Scientific Director of Western’s Canada First Research Excellence Fund program in cognitive neuroscience
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Mahadeo Sukhai
Vice-President Research & International Affairs and Chief Accessibility Officer for the CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind)
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Tammy J. Clifford
Vice-President Research - Learning Health Systems
Acting President (effective April 8, 2024)
Ex-officio, non-voting member
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