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:
Professor, 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
Marni Brownell
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
Ruth Gilbert
ISAC Chair • Director, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital • Theme Director, Population Health at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Sharon Goldfeld
Clinical Professor, Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Patrick Ip
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health • Director, Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) Center
Rita Hamad