Witnesses: Assembly of First Nations: Kimberley Barker, Public Health Advisor; Angus Toulouse, Regional Chief. Canadian Public Health Association: James Chauvin, Policy Director; Elaine Randell, Communicable Disease Consultant, Department of Health and Social Services, Government of Nunavut. Northlands Denesuline First Nation: Joseph Dantouze. University of Alberta: Anne Fanning, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: Elizabeth Ford, Director, Department of Health and Environment; Gail Turner, Chair, National Committee on Health and Director of Health Services, Department of Health and Social Development, Government of Nunatsiavut. Canadian Lung Association: Brian Graham, Chair of the Chronic Disease Policy, Chief Executive Officer of the Lung Association of Saskatchewan. Canadian Society for International Health: Janet Hatcher Roberts, Executive Director. University of Alberta: Richard Long, Professor, Director of the Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, First Nations and Inuit Health, Immediate Past Medical Officer of Health for Tuberculosis, Province of Alberta. As individuals: Pamela Orr, Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Community Health Science, University of Manitoba; Earl Hershfield, Professor of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Former Director of Tuberculosis, Province of Manitoba. Department of Health: RoseMarie Ramsingh, Executive Director, Community Medicine, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch; Shelagh Jane Woods, Director General, Primary Health Care and Public Health Directorate, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. |