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Professor Gerald Evans
Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor, Departments of Medicine
Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, and
Pathology & Molecular Medicine
Queen’s University
Kingston, Canada

Dr. Evans is the Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, and Pathology & Molecular Medicine at Queen's University. He is an attending physician in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine and Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Kingston General Hospital and the Hotel Dieu Hospital. He served as President of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (AMMI) Canada from 2008-10. He is a founding member of the Ontario Anti-infective Review Panel and immediate past Chair of the Committee to Evaluate Drugs, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care expert advisory committee on optimal drug utilization for the province of Ontario. He is also a co-investigator with the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and Chair of the Working Group on Drugs for Rare Diseases for the Ontario MOHLTC. His research interests include clinical guideline development, antimicrobial pharmacology, the microbiology of well water and aquifers, and knowledge translation and health technology assessment for optimal drug utilization.




Professor Catherine Bennett
Alfred Deakin Professor
and Chair in Epidemiology
Deakin University
Melbourne, VIC

Professor Bennett has a distinguished career in public health practice, research, academic governance and teaching. Catherine joined Deakin in 2009 after more than eight years with the University of Melbourne as Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Deputy Chair of the Academic Programs Committee in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and Director of Population Health Practice in the Melbourne School of Population Health.Catherine has also worked with the NSW and VIC State Governments ina variety of senior positions and was also a founding Chair and President of the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australia.