About Us

Dr. Geneviève Boily-Larouche is the Managing Director of the AMR Policy Accelerator. In her role, she draws upon her significant expertise in global health research and policy to provide strategic leadership to the team, while overseeing critical policy advisory projects and day-to-day activities of the Accelerator.

Geneviève has over 15 years of experience in academic research, knowledge mobilization, science and public health policies, an…

Mathieu Poirier is the Director of the Global Strategy Lab, Scientific Director of the AMR Policy Accelerator, York Research Chair (Tier II) in Global Health Equity, and Associate Professor of Social Epidemiology at the School of Global Health. His research ranges from evaluating international law to developing health equity metrics and generating policy-relevant research on sociall…

Julia Bishop is the Director of Global Engagement for the Policy Team, where she leads the Policy Translation and Capacity Strengthening streams. Julia’s work focuses on strategic planning and decision-making, building meaningful partnerships, and amplifying the impact of our work through engagement with stakeholders around the world. Julia’s background is in international and human rights law; she holds a JD from Queen’s University and an LLM from the University of Cape…

Fiona is a veterinary-research fellow at the Global Strategy Lab who supports the lab’s antimicrobial resistance policy research. Her previous policy and research experience focused on improving One Health approaches to global food security through climate-smart agricultural technologies, and infectious disease surveillance.

Fiona’s previous research and work experience was focused on improving One Health approaches to global food securit…

Taylor is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Global Health. She holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) from the University of Calgary, where she cultivated a strong passion for research and the social determinants of health.

Taylor has also worked as a Research Coordinator with the University of Calgary’s Nephrology Research Group, focusing on person-centred integrated care and …

Alison Humphrey plays with story across drama, digital media, and education. Since starting out as an intern at Marvel Comics, she has directed classical and live-mocapped interactive theatre, produced alternate reality games, and written transmedia television.

The research-creation dissertation for her PhD in Cinema and Media Arts, titled The Shadowpox Storyworld as Citizen Science Fiction: Building Co-Immunity through Participatory Mixed-Reality Storytelling centred on a mixed-reality storyworld co-created with young people on three continents, imagining immunization through a superhero metaphor.

Clare McGall is a Policy Advisor at the AMR Policy Accelerator. In this role, she collaborates with national governments, civil society organizations, and academic researchers to provide evidence-informed AMR policy guidance.

Prior to this work, she completed her MScPH at McGill University. Her graduate education and previous research assistant experiences harnessed her skills in critical appraisal and research design.

Suzanne Naro designs and delivers evidence-informed strategies that help governments and global institutions tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). She leads the development of policy frameworks, facilitates co-creation workshops with ministries of health, and supports the implementation of national AMR action plans.

Suzanne spearheaded the creation of the Smart Choice Process, a policy-responsive framework that helps countri…

Cindy is a fourth year student at the University of Waterloo majoring in Public Health with a minor in Psychology. Her academic interests reflect her passion to understand how the healthcare system and policies intersect to shape the health and well-being of people.

Dr. Kadia Petricca is the Senior Policy Lead at the Global Strategy Lab’s AMR Policy Accelerator, where she draws on her expertise in global health policy and implementation science to lead the Smart Choice process in advancing national AMR action planning with partner countries.

Kadia is deeply committed to strengthening the translation of evidence into real-world impact. She has extensive experience facilitating policy dialogues with …

Heba is a dedicated public health professional committed to advancing social justice, health equity and improving health outcomes for marginalized communities worldwide. She has served as a Policy Analyst in the Office of International Affairs at the Public Health Agency of Canada, contributing to Canada’s international health engagement, and has conducted extensive research on access to medicines, human rights, and the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and students.&…

Arne Ruckert is the Director of Research at the Global Strategy Lab’s AMR Policy Accelerator, overseeing all research activities and contributing to the development of policy products. His previous academic work revolved around understanding how social determinants of health are driving global health inequities, using political economy and social sciences approaches. More recently, he has researched the governance and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) drawing on t…

Kayla Strong is the Capacity Strengthening Lead at the Global Strategy Lab, where she synthesizes and translates evidence specific to antimicrobial resistance and supports study design development. She completed her Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary, specializing in antimicrobial resistance transmission modelling within beef supply chain operations, aiming to influence both policy and practice in the Canadian beef industry. Kayla is deeply passionate …

Ramdhanie holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Social Science Degree in Economics from the University of Guyana. He is also a certified Project Manager (PMP) and is trained in financial management, results-based budgeting and monitoring & evaluation.

Demetria heads communications strategy and planning at the Global Strategy Lab and is a member of the AMR Policy Accelerator leadership team. Demetria’s role includes working with the team to develop comprehensive dissemination plans, exploring strategies to make GSL’s research more accessible to key audiences and encouraging a culture of strategic communication.

Dr. Lauren J. Wallace is a Research Associate at the Global Strategy Lab, where she uses her expertise as a medical anthropologist to synthesize research on the complex social components of AMR.

As a member of the AMR Policy Accelerator team, Lauren spearheads evidence synthesis focused on unpacking the pathways between gender, equity and AMR. She also contributes to research on the design of a global governance panel on evidence for action …

Patrick Fafard is a Senior Investigator with the Global Strategy Lab and Full Professor cross-appointed to the Faculties of Social Science and Medicine, University of Ottawa. Earlier in his career he served as a senior executive with the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan. His current research focuses on public health policy and governance and the role of scientific evidence in the making of public policy.

Dr. A.M. Viens is York Research Chair in Population Health Ethics and Law and Inaugural Director of the School of Global Health at York University. He is also a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. He has degrees in philosophy and law from the Universities of Toronto, Oxford, and London. A key area of his research focus centres on demonstrating how philosophical analysis, legal epidemiology, and regulatory theory should shap…