Organization

This section describes the Public Health Sudbury & Districts’ organizational structure.

• Download our current organizational chart: Organizational Chart: March 2024 (169 KB, PDF, 4 pages).

Acting Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer

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.

Executive Assistant and Secretary to the Board of Health

Rachel Quesnel

Corporate Services Division

Positions:

• France Quirion, 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

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)

Knowledge and Strategic Services

Positions:

• Renée St Onge, Director
• Kathy Dokis, Director, Indigenous Public Health
• 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, Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Exchange
• Program assistants
• Research assistants
• Social determinants of health nurses
• Special advisor, Indigenous Affairs
• Workforce development officer

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
• Indigenous engagement
• Population health assessment and surveillance
• Professional practice
• Program evaluation
• Research and knowledge exchange
• Staff development
• Strategic planning
• Student education

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This item was last modified on April 11, 2024