Findmyvaccine Podcast

To Approve or Not to Approve? The Art of Decision Making with Health Canada's Chief Medical Advisor Dr.Supriya Sharma

Episode Summary

๐Ÿ”‹ ๐Ÿ”‹ ๐™Š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง 2000 ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ 100000 ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™œ๐™š๐™จ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ง๐™š๐™ซ๐™ž๐™š๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™– ๐™ซ๐™–๐™˜๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ช๐™—๐™ข๐™ž๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ?!! ๐ŸŒ ๐–๐ž ๐ ๐จ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  vaccines ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ง๐š๐๐š. ๐Ÿ’ก ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ, ๐ƒ๐ซ.๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฒ๐š ๐’๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐š, ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ Health Canada | Santรฉ Canada's ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐Ž๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—. And she ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญ.

Episode Notes

Dr. Supriya Sharma
Chief Medical Advisor, Health Canada

Dr. Supriya Sharma took on the role of Chief Medical Advisor to the Deputy Minister at Health Canada in August 2015, in addition to her role as Senior Medical Advisor of the Health Products and Food Branch in the department.

Dr. Sharma completed her MD from the University of Ottawa. Further to that, she completed a pediatrics residency at the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary. She completed a Masters of Public Health in International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Sharma has held a number of regulatory and policy positions in Health Canada since 2002, and was most recently the Director General of the Therapeutic Products Directorate. She also took a sabbatical working in consulting and with an academic start up out of the University of Western Ontario focusing on innovation adoption in the health care system, returning to Health Canada in 2013 to take on the newly created Senior Medical Advisor role in the Health Products and Food Branch.

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Dr.Sharma in the news:ย 

CBC: Health Canada received more Johnson & Johnson data on same day as U.S. approval

CBS: Health Canada working to review Merck's experimental COVID-19 pill treatment

LA Times: Canadaโ€™s health regulator approves Pfizerโ€™s COVID-19 vaccine