Dr. Heather Manson

In a career that spans the individual to the population, Dr Manson’s professional roles include a decade of clinical practice as an internist and hematologist in Richmond BC, medical health officer and senior medical director with Richmond Health Services, and Vice-President Health Services Integration and Population Continuums at Vancouver Coastal Health. Currently in her role as Director of Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Dr Manson directs the planning and policy development, evaluation and research activities of the Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (HPCDIP) portfolio.  Dr Manson promotes Ontario-wide system-level changes including providing evidence and best practices to public health partners to meet their needs and obligations regarding health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention. Throughout her career, Dr Manson has focused on bringing evidence to inform best practices to achieve improvements in health – whether at the individual patient or population level.  Dr Manson obtained her BSc, MD and MHSc degrees from the University of British Columbia, trained in internal medicine at the University of Toronto, and completed her Hematology training at McMaster University.