Joël Denis

Joël Denis is Director General of the Centre for Vaccine and Therapeutics Readiness at the Public Health Agency of Canada. He has served in various senior policy and program positions in both social and international departments. He has the pleasure of leading a professional and passionate team focused on bridging science evidence to policy development and action by building partnerships to expedite and increase Canada’s role and actions to address the threat of antimicrobial resistance in humans and animals both in Canada and with international partners. He also serves as the Public Health Agency’s Champion for Indigenous employees and advocates equity and indigenous perspectives to be taken into account in all aspects of public health, especially in addressing AMR. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Global antimicrobial resistance research and development Hub – a G20 mandated international partnership that brings together government and non-government actors to gather evidence to inform high-level decision makers to help identify and prioritise actions to address antimicrobial resistance research and development gaps.