{"id":6405,"date":"2020-11-16T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T07:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvec.mcri.edu.au\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2021-01-27T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:59:38","slug":"covid19-road-to-a-vaccine-episode-17-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-being-managed-in-british-columbia-canada-with-dr-bonnie-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvec.mcri.edu.au\/vi\/covid19-road-to-a-vaccine-episode-17-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-being-managed-in-british-columbia-canada-with-dr-bonnie-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID19 \u0110\u01b0\u1eddng \u0111\u1ebfn v\u1eafc-xin t\u1eadp 17: \u0110\u1ea1i d\u1ecbch COVID-19 \u0111ang \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c qu\u1ea3n l\u00fd nh\u01b0 th\u1ebf n\u00e0o \u1edf British Columbia, Canada, v\u1edbi Ti\u1ebfn s\u0129 Bonnie Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

In episode 17 of our COVID19 Road to a vaccine series, our host, Associate Professor Nigel Crawford, speaks to Dr Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer (PHO) for the Province of BC in Canada. As the PHO Bonnie is leading the province\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bonnie has been in this role since the beginning of 2018 and prior to this was the deputy PHO for three years. She specialises in public health and preventative medicine, and has a background working with the World Health Organisation and UNICEF polio eradication program in Pakistan and with the WHO during the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. She has experience leading responses to SARS, the H1N1 pandemic and the overdose emergency in BC. Bonnie is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine and is a member of the Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunisation. She and Nigel discuss the following:<\/p>\n