Dr. Terrence Sullivan, Chair of the Board

Dr. Terrence Sullivan currently serves in a number of governance and advisory roles in health services and health policy. He chairs the Board of Public Health Ontario (the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion).  From 2001 to March 2011, he occupied successively responsible positions at Cancer Care Ontario — the final seven years as its President and CEO. From 1993 to 2001, Terry was the founding President of the Institute for Work & Health, North America’s leading research centre on work-related injury. Terry has played senior roles in the Ontario Ministries of Health, the Cabinet Office, and Intergovernmental Affairs. He served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Constitutional Affairs and Federal-Provincial Relations, during the Charlottetown negotiations and he served two successive First Ministers of Ontario as Executive Director of the Premier's Council on Health Strategy, including a period as Deputy Minister (1991).

A behavioural scientist, Terry is full Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Faculty of Medicine) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is Associate Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where he is co-editor of www.healthydebate.ca. Among other commitments, he is the academic leader for the EXTRA/FORCES national fellowship program in health care leadership supported by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. He chairs the Research Advisory Committee for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board in Ontario, as well as the Quality Improvement and Systems Performance committee for the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer . He currently provides advisory services to the Rossy Family Foundation regarding cancer programs within the McGill academic hospital network.