Dr. Meaghan Thumath is a Canadian clinician scientist and public health nursing leader working at the intersection of health security, trust, and crisis response.

An Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and a member of the World Health Organization’s Emergencies Programme and the Canadian Red Cross, she has led outbreak response in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Haiti. In Canada, Dr. Thumath has served as Chief of Staff to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, an Executive Director of Public Health for the B.C. Ministry of Health, and as Regional Director of Communicable Disease Control at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), where she led one of Canada’s largest immunization programs.

Internationally, she has advised WHO, the Global Fund, UNDP and the World Bank on health systems strengthening across more than 25 countries.

A Trudeau Scholar and graduate of the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dr. Thumath leads UBC’s HERO Lab (Health Equity and Resilience Observatory) and works as the part-time Director of Strategy and Public Health Planning for the Office of the Chief Medical Health Officer at VCH.