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Our staff
General telephone: (416) 408-2249
General toll-free: 1 800 397-9567
General Fax: (416) 408-2122
| Barb
Willet, Executive Director |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2240
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E-mail:
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| Barb has a Masters in Health Sciences with a specialty in Health Promotion. During her 20+ years with Health Nexus, she’s held several different positions, primarily in management, and most recently was Program Director. Barb has provided strategic leadership to the effective planning and delivery of a range of programs to public health, community health, social service agencies and health care. |
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| Meghan
Boston-McCracken, Bilingual Information Specialist, Best Start
Resource Centre |
Telephone:
(705) 254-3463
Fax: (705)
254-7503
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Toll Free:
1-800-397-9567 Ext. 2345 |
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Meghan is the Bilingual Information Specialist with the Best Start Resource Centre. She oversees the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Promotion Network and the Healthy Babies Healthy Children Network, writes the bi-weekly bulletin, conducts research, shares information, supports the team on special projects, and provides information, referrals, and brief consultations to clients. Meghan completed her Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Masters of Social Work. She has conducted research and managed information in the areas of family support, child welfare, homelessness, psychology, child development, social work, health promotion, learning disabilities, and community economic and social development.
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| Sylvie
Boulet, Bilingual Health Promotion Consultant Best Start Resource Centre |
| 705-534-0019 |
Toll Free:
1-800-397-9567 Ext. 2276 |
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| Sylvie
Boulet is a bilingual Health Promotion Consultant. Sylvie has
a Master in Health Sciences - Community Nutrition, two bachelor
degrees in food science and social work and a back ground in
adult education. Sylvie started her career 22 years ago first
as a program coordinator, social worker, adult educator, researcher
and facilitator and then in the nutrition field as a dietitian
and professor of nutrition at 2 post secondary organizations.
Her experience encompasses the fields of non-profit organizations
as well as clinical institutions and a community health centres.
Strengths include strong skills in the area of group facilitation,
activity/group coordination. |
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| Wendy
Burgoyne, Best Start Manager |
Telephone: (807) 623-2922
Fax: (807) 623-2922 (call first)
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Toll Free: 1-800-397-9567 Ext. 2279 |
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Wendy has worked extensively on teen pregnancy, reproductive health risks in the workplace, health before pregnancy and the effects of tobacco smoke and alcohol during pregnancy. She assists communities across the province by providing presentations, consultations and designing new provincial resources. Wendy has presented at many conferences including Missouri Healthy Start, Guelph Conference on Human Sexuality, the Ontario Public Health Association Conference, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse Congress, Maternal Newborn Network and has provided on-site consultations for over 30 Ontario Health Units.
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| Samuel Carboni, IT Administration Support |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2200 Ext. 2242
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Sam is responsible for ensuring the day to day operations of the Health Nexus IT and telecommunications infrastructure, providing desktop support, and the database administration of the Health Nexus programs. Sam brings with him over 12 years of diverse experience in the information technologies field. |
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| Louise
Choquette, Health Promotion Consultant, Best Start Resource
Centre |
| Tel: 705.788.1558 |
Toll Free:
1-800-397-9567 Ext. 2276 |
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Louise Choquette is a Bilingual Health Promotion Consultant. Her formal education is in Communications and Educational Technology. Over the past few years, she has been involved in a variety of health promotion initiatives in public health and for not-for-profit organizations in the areas of heart health, physical activity, tobacco use prevention and substance abuse prevention. Her portfolio with the Best Start Resource Centre has included services to francophones, prenatal education, cultural diversity issues, tobacco, attachment and physical activity.
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| Hiltrud
Dawson, Health Promotion Consultant, Best Start Resource Centre |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2250
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E-mail:
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| Hiltrud
has Ext.ensive experience in the maternal newborn field as a
nurse, midwife as well as lactation consultant. She last worked
as coordinator of the Breastfeeding and Newborn Assessment clinic
at St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton. During that time Hiltrud
pulled together a multidisciplinary team that implemented the
Baby-Friendly Initiative. St Joseph's Healthcare became Ontario's
first Baby-Friendly Hospital in March 2003. Her passions include
breastfeeding and the adjustment of mothers and families after
the birth of their baby and the impact of mother's physical,
social and mental issues on infants. |
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| Subha Sankaran,
Health Promotion Consultant, Best Start Resource Centre |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2245
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Subha Sankaran is a Health Promotion Consultant at Health Nexus where she has been working in a few different roles and program areas since 2004. Her areas of interest include equity and inclusion, as well as community and organizational development. Through her work she helps build capacity for health promotion through the lens of equity and inclusion. Recent projects include adaptation and translation of resources for newcomers related to maternal, newborn and infant health, Primer to Action - taking action on the social determinants of health, and working on stroke prevention for South Asian communities through a model of community engagement. Her current work includes a province wide project funded through the Healthy Communities Fund. Subha has previously worked in the field of HIV/AIDS in Canada, and prior to moving here, taught Sociology at the university level in India.
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| Ronald Dieleman, Adjoint de programme (OHPRS) |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2264
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| Ronald
Dieleman is a bilingual administrative assistant. His experience
is greatly diversified. He has worked in the areas of education,
administration and client services with different organizations
and corporations; and was involved in community based groups
in Haiti. He also works as a volunteer for French non-profit
organizations: L'Association des communautés francophones
de l'Ontario de Toronto (ACFO-Toronto) and FrancoQueer as a
board member. He has now joined the Health Promotion Hub to
provide administrative support both in English and in French. |
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| Melanie Ferris, Aboriginal Health Promotion Consultant Best Start Resource Centre |
| Phone: 416.408.2249 Ext. 2263 |
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Melanie Ferris (Horse Clan) is our Aboriginal Health Promotion Consultant. An Anishnawbe woman originally from the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba, Melanie’s passion is in creating products that use plain language and clear design so that Aboriginal people have useful and enjoyable products to use in building healthier communities. Melanie is a published author and especially enjoys gathering information from Elders for her work. Through Health Nexus, Melanie is working closely with Aboriginal people in Ontario to create a toolkit and training for service providers to help them include culture in their approaches to preventing obesity in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children. |
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| Roshni Juttun, Administrative Assistant, Best Start Resource Centre |
| Phone: 416.408.2249 Ext. 2336 |
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Roshni Juttun integrated the Best Start team since beginning of January 2009 as Bilingual Administrative Assistant and will be providing full support in both English and French to the team, reporting directly to the Health Promotion Manager. Backed with 6 years experience in Administrative and Human Resources acquired through numerous and reputable French companies in Mauritius, she recently moved to Canada with her family. |
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| Robyn Kalda,
Health Promotion Information Specialist, Health Promotion Hub |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2226
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| Robyn
joins the Health Promotion Hub team as a Health Promotion Information
Specialist. She will be part of the OHPE Bulletin team and will
also be exploring ways to develop, store, retrieve, use and
share health promotion information to maximize its usefulness
and impact. She has been online since 1992, and has worked online
with a number of groups at the local, provincial, and national
levels. |
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| Kousar Khan, Webmaster |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2200 Ext. 2200
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Kousar Khan is a webmaster and has been with Health Nexus since December, 2008. Kousar is responsible for the designing, development and administration of Health Nexus’s various websites, in English and French. She brings to us a wide range of knowledge and skills and has over 7 years of experience in this field. |
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| Hélène
Roussel, Health Promotion Consultant, Health Promotion Hub |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2244
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E-mail:
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| Hélène
Roussel has many years of experience within community based
agencies. Her experience is greatly diversified. She has worked
in the areas of adult education training, volunteer management,
programme management, administration, public relations, events
coordination, fundraising, and community health development
specifically in the natural health field. Hélène
has a great interest in capacity building and the ethno-cultural
diversity of the franco-ontarian agencies.
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| Peggy Schultz,
Health Promotion Consultant, Health Promotion Hub |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2231
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her 20 years as a Health Promotion Consultant with Health Nexus, Peggy has continued to build on her
earlier career as an occupational therapist in community mental
health. Peggy's work includes consultation, facilitation and
information dissemination with groups and organizations to support
system-based change.
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| Suzanne
Schwenger, Interim Hub Manager |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2267
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| Suzanne
Schwenger has worked in health promotion for 15 years. She speaks
French and holds Masters Degrees in Social Work and Education.
Her passions include community engagement, public policy development
and electronic dialogue. Suzanne is co-author of the resource,
Prescribing Prevention: Health Promotion and Stroke Prevention.
Suzanne has been a member of Prevent Stroke team since November
2002.
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| Alison
Stirling, Knowledge Management Developer |
Telephone:
(416) 408-2249 Ext. 2227
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| Alison
Stirling is currently the Health Promotion Knowledge Management
Developer. Between 2005 and 2007, she was on assignment as the
Health Promotion Information Specialist to the Health Promotion
Affiliate, Canadian Health Network (CHN) at
Health Nexus. Alison provides specific support and expertise
in the fields of health promotion and information management.
She has both a Master's degree in Health Promotion (MHSc) and
a Master's degree in Information Studies (MISt) from University
of Toronto. She brings over 20 years experience in building
health promotion capacity at both the local and provincial levels;
and in research, writing and advocating for health promotion.
Alison is an enthusiastic proponent of the uses of the Internet
for health promotion, is the founder of the 10 year old Click4HP
international health promotion listserv and the Ontario Health
Promotion Email (OHPE) Bulletin, and is currently working on
HP Web 2.0 tools for social networking on the Internet (blogs,
wikis, tagging and more). |
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