Shelley Deeks
Shelley Deeks | |
|---|---|
| Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Minister | Patty Hajdu |
| Personal details | |
| Occupation | Epidemiologist |
Shelley Deeks is a Canadian public health expert who is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.[1] Her advertised "specialities include communicable disease control, outbreak investigations, vaccine safety, epidemiology and program evaluation." She is a fellow of the and the .[2]
Career[]
In 2009, Deeks joined Public Health Ontario.[3][4]
At some time prior to 2020, Deeks was appointed of Ontario.[2]
In 2020, Deeks left the Ontario Ministry of Health one month after she "revealed that the government ignored Public Health Ontario's recommendations on COVID-19."[2] In reality, she was not consulted in November 2020 "on colour-coded COVID restrictions", and two days after the revelations the Ford government moved to bring the colour codes into line with PHO's recommendations.[3][4]
In February 2021, Deeks was appointed the inaugural of Nova Scotia.[2] The press release said she would "lead Public Health surveillance, support epidemiologists and support Nova Scotia's publicly funded immunization program".[4]
On 29 March 2021, as Vice-Chair of the NACI Deeks said that "There is substantial uncertainty about the benefit of providing AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to adults under 55 given the potential risks." She said that the risk of a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis blood clot was "potentially as high as one in 100,000, much higher than the one in one million risk believed before... Most of the patients in Europe who developed a rare blood clot after vaccination with AstraZeneca were women under age 55, and the fatality rate among those who develop clots is as high as 40%."[5]
Other positions[]
Deeks is also or has been:
- an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto[6]
- the Vice-Chair of Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization[6][7]
- a member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts Polio Working Group[6]
- a member of the GAVI Vaccine Alliance[6]
- a member of the (VIPS) Steering Committee[6]
References[]
- ^ Canada, Public Health Agency of (2020-11-02). "National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation". www.canada.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ a b c d "Public health chief who made waves in Ontario moving to Nova Scotia". SaltWire Network. The Guardian. 10 December 2020.
- ^ a b Yang, Jennifer (9 December 2020). "Shelley Deeks, the Public Health Ontario whistleblower on colour-coded COVID restrictions, is leaving for a job in Nova Scotia". Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.
- ^ a b c Ray, Carolyn (10 December 2020). "N.S. recruits top Ontario Public Health physician for new role". CBC.
- ^ Gillies, Rob (29 March 2021). "Canada pauses AstraZeneca vaccine for under 55". Chicago Daily Herald. Associated Press.
- ^ a b c d e "Shelley Deeks". CANVax. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "Dr. Shelley Deeks". CIRN. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
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- Canadian public health doctors
- Canadian health officials
- Living people
- Canadian epidemiologists