Organization
This section describes the Public Health Sudbury & Districts’ organizational structure.
- Download our current organizational chart: Organizational Chart: April 2025 (155 KB, PDF, 4 pages).
Acting Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Mustafa Hirji
In March 2024, Mustafa Hirji (MD MPH FRCPC) started his leadership role as the Acting Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer with Public Health Sudbury & Districts.
Dr. Hirji received a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Calgary in 2010, a Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto) in 2013, and completed specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program at McMaster University from 2010–2015.
Dr. Mustafa Hirji previously served as the Associate Medical Officer of Health for Niagara Region Public Health (between 2015 and 2024) including serving in an acting capacity as the Medical Officer of Health & Commissioner of Public Health & Emergency Services for Niagara Region (from 2018 to 2023). During his time in Niagara, Dr. Hirji led the region’s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He worked with municipalities to embed health impact assessments into their budget decisions, strengthened healthy public policies around smoking and vaping, improved the organization’s capacity to address social determinants of health through developing and implementing a health equity strategic plan, and enhanced the agency’s communications and data analytics capabilities. Dr. Hirji also led an effort to refocus health promotion work to maximize its impact.
Dr. Hirji is honoured to have the opportunity to contribute to Public Health’s efforts to improve health throughout Sudbury and Manitoulin districts, striving to address social determinants of health and building capacity to reduce health inequities. By working alongside Indigenous people and nurturing strong partnerships with communities and partner agencies, Dr. Hirji fosters the agency’s values of humility, trust, and respect.
Dr. Hirji’s experience demonstrates his foundational commitment to health equity and a focus on effective public health practice. He is dedicated to ensuring Public Health programming—work protecting and promoting health—remains locally responsive and contributes to building healthy communities for all.
Acting Associate Medical Officer of Health
Dr. Emily Groot
Emily Groot (MD, MPH, FRCPC) joined Public Health Sudbury & Districts in January 2025 as the Acting Associate Medical Officer of Health (AMOH). Dr. Groot’s responsibilities include assisting in performing the duties of the Medical Officer of Health (MOH), and supporting the MOH, the Board of Health, and the organization in achieving the public health mandate by providing leadership and surge capacity. Dr. Groot completed her medical education at McMaster University followed by speciality training in public health and preventive medicine at Queen’s University. She also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Toronto.
Executive Assistant and Secretary to the Board of Health
Rachel Quesnel
Corporate Services Division
Positions:
- Sandra Laclé, Interim Director
- Administrative assistant
- Budget and Reporting officer
- Business analyst
- Database officer
- Divisional administrative assistant
- Facility co-ordinator
- Finance clerks
- Human Resources officers
- Information technologists
- Information Technology Business Systems analyst
- Junior accountant
- Manager, Accounting Services
- Manager, Human Resources
- Manager, Information Technology
- Office assistants
- Payroll and Benefits administrator
- Records and Information Management officer
- Senior Information Technology Systems analyst
- Specialist, Quality and Monitoring
- Workforce development officer
Services:
- Accessibility for people with disabilities
- Accounting
- Business continuity plan
- Contract service agreements
- Corporate legislation and administrative policies
- District office and intake clerical support
- Facilities
- Health and safety
- Human resources
- Information technology
- Privacy and access to information
- Quality and organizational standards
- Records management
- Risk management
- Volunteer resources
Health Promotion and Vaccine and Preventable Diseases
Positions:
- Stacey Gilbeau, Director and Chief Nursing Officer
- Administrative assistants
- Clinical dental assistants
- Clinical dentist
- Dental health educators
- Divisional administrative assistant
- Family home visitors
- Health promoters
- Immunizers
- Manager, Children’s and Seniors Oral Health and Vision Screening
- Manager, Healthy Families
- Manager, Mental Health and Substance Use
- Manager, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Injury Prevention
- Manager, School Health
- Manager, Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Office assistants
- Program assistants
- Public health dietitians
- Public health nurses
- Public health nutritionists
- Regional program officer, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
- Registered dental hygienists
- Specialist, program
- Tobacco control coordinator, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
- Youth development specialist, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
Programs:
- Body diversity
- Children’s oral health
- Chronic disease prevention and well-being, including healthy eating, built environment, sleep, physical activity, exposure to ultraviolet radiation)
- Harm reduction
- Healthy aging
- Healthy growth and development and healthy babies healthy children
- Injury prevention, including fall prevention, road safety, concussions
- Mental health promotion
- Seniors oral health
- Substance use
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Vision health screening
Health Protection Division
Positions:
- Stacey Laforest, Director
- Administrative assistants
- Divisional administrative assistant
- Environmental support officers
- Health promoters
- iPAC practitioners
- Managers
- Nurse practitioners
- Office assistants
- Program assistants
- Program officer
- Public health inspectors
- Public health nurses
- Smoke-Free Ontario Act inspectors
- Specialist
Programs:
- Control of infectious disease and case and contact management
- Environmental health policy
- Food safety
- Growing family health program – nurse practitioners
- Health hazard prevention and management
- Infection prevention and control (IPAC) HUB
- Infectious diseases prevention and control
- Legislated enforcement
- Menu labelling
- Needle/syringe program – The Point (harm reduction supplies and services)
- Part 8/Ontario Building Code (septic systems)
- Public health emergency preparedness and response
- Rabies prevention and control
- Safe water (drinking water and recreational water)
- Sexual health, sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne infections (including HIV)
- Skin Cancer Prevention Act
- Smoke-Free Ontario Act enforcement
- Tuberculosis prevention and control
- Vector-borne diseases including West Nile virus (WNv)
Indigenous Public Health
Positions:
- Kathy Dokis, Director
- Special advisor, Indigenous Affairs
- Health Promoters
Services:
Indigenous Public Health is based in the Knowledge and Strategic Services Division and is responsible for implementing the agency’s Indigenous Engagement Strategy by engaging respectfully with key partners; assessing strengths, needs, and gaps; exchanging knowledge; and engaging in evaluation and research.
Activities and services include:
- Indigenous engagement
Knowledge and Strategic Services
Positions:
- Renée St Onge, Director
- Administrative assistant
- Communications assistant
- Communications specialists
- Data analysts
- Divisional administrative assistant
- Epidemiologists
- Foundational standards specialists
- Graphic designer
- Health promoters
- Manager, Communications
- Manager, Health Equity
- Manager, Population Health Assessment and Surveillance
- Manager, Professional Practice and Development
- Manager, Effective Public Health Practice
- Program assistants
- Research assistants
- Social determinants of health nurses
Services:
Knowledge and Strategic Services plays both a key leadership and support role in the implementation of the Foundational Standard of the Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS), and in the areas of professional practice and development. Our core function is to provide reliable information, share knowledge, and build capacity to support excellence in public health practice within the agency.
Activities and services include:
- Communications
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Population health assessment and surveillance
- Professional practice
- Program evaluation
- Research and knowledge exchange
- Staff development
- Strategic planning
- Student education
This item was last modified on July 14, 2025