International Scientific Advisory Committee
The International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) is a global panel of child health equity experts. Its members share their expertise with the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine and The Hospital for Sick Children leadership, to enhance the vision of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children.
The ISAC mandate is to advise the Centre’s Co-Directors and is comprised of the following members:
ISAC Chair
Director, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital
Theme Director, Population Health at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Australia
Sharon Goldfeld
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Co-Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University
USA
Janet M. Currie
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Co-Director of the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit
Theme Lead for Public Health, Health Data Research London
England
Ruth Gilbert
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
Director, Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) Center
USA
Rita Hamad
Clinical Professor, Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
China
Patrick Ip
Director of the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University
Autism and Neurodevelopment Chair at McMaster Children’s Hospital
Canada
Stelios Georgiades
Past International Scientific Advisory Committee Members
Marni Brownell, Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba; Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director of Research, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy; Research Scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Canada (2020 - 2024)
Tumaini Rucker Coker, Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s; Co-Director, Child Health Equity Research Fellowship, University of Washington, USA (2021 - 2023)