Jillian Clare Kohler is a Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto.

Her research focuses on anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability in pharmaceutical and health systems, as well as promoting fair access of populations to medicines and other health products globally.

Dr. Kohler has decades of experience providing policy expertise on pharmaceutical issues to international organizations, such as the WHO, the UNODC, the World Bank, and the UNDP. She is a Steering Committee Member of the Global Network for Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in Health, led by the WHO, a Senior Fellow and Member of the Governing Board, Massey College and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, Oxford University Press.

For the BRC, Jiliian and her team will conduct a scoping review that systematically maps institutional-level influences on vaccine access across Canada. While existing literature has examined vaccine hesitancy and barriers at individual and community levels, their comprehensive synthesis of peer-reviewed and grey literature documents examines how systemic processes shape vaccine availability, accessibility, acceptability, and uptake in Canada. They will identify key barriers and facilitators to vaccine access, including geographic disparities, funding structures, and the role of inter-institutional collaboration.