Organization
This section describes the Public Health Sudbury & Districts’ organizational structure.
- Download our current organizational chart: Organizational Chart: June 2023 (162 KB, PDF).
Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Penny Sutcliffe
Penny Sutcliffe (MD, MHSc, FRCPC) began her appointment with Public Health Sudbury & Districts in 2000 as the area’s Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer. A Specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Dr. Sutcliffe completed most of her training in Toronto with two years in Newfoundland and Labrador.
While Northeastern Ontario is now her home, she has worked in Thompson, Manitoba, as Medical Officer of Health, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, as Regional Medical Officer of Health and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Territories.
Dr. Sutcliffe completed her Royal College Fellowship in Preventive Medicine and Public Health in 1997 through the University of Toronto and trained in family medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She obtained her medical degree in 1992 from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Sutcliffe’s 2007/08 sabbatical year in Québec City enhanced her French-language abilities and also her understanding of the unique health system structures and processes in Québec.
She has participated in many provincial initiatives contributing to public health renewal in Ontario. She has been the Chair of the Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health (COMOH) and President and a board member of the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa). She was a member of the Agency Implementation Task Force and of the Research and Knowledge Transfer Subcommittee and the Public Health Funding Subcommittee of the Capacity Review Committee.
Dr. Sutcliffe has a faculty appointment with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Public Health, Human Sciences Division, and Associate Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, at Lakehead University/Laurentian University.
She was the chair of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeon’s Examination Board for Community Medicine. She is a recipient of the Canadian Health Research Foundation’s Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) Fellowship (2008-2010) and received a Master’s Certificate in Leadership following her participation in the first cohort of the Ontario Medical Association/Canadian Medical Association/Schulich School of Business Physician Leadership Development Program (2010-2011).
Dr. Sutcliffe has a longstanding interest in health promotion and population health and a keen understanding of how local public health efforts can effectively reduce social inequities in health. Rural and northern health, public health systems and evidence-informed practice are areas of great interest to her.
Executive Assistant and Secretary to the Board of Health
Rachel Quesnel
Corporate Services Division
Positions:
- France Quirion, Director
- Divisional Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistant
- Manager, Human Resources
- Manager, Accounting Services
- Manager, Information Technology
- Facility Co-ordinator
- Specialist, Quality and Monitoring
- Records and Information Management Officer
- Budget and Reporting Officer
- Finance Clerks
- Junior Accountant
- Human Resources Officers
- Information Technologists
- Payroll and Benefits Administrator
- Senior Information Technology Systems Analyst
- Information Technology Business Systems Analyst
- Business Analyst
- Secretary
- Office Assistants
Services:
- Accessibility for people with disabilities
- Accounting
- Business Continuity Plan
- Facilities
- Corporate Legislation and Administrative Policies
- Contract Service Agreements
- District Office and Intake Clerical Support
- Health and Safety
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
- Privacy and Access to Information
- Quality and Organizational Standards
- Records Management
- Risk Management
- Volunteer Resources
Health Promotion Division
Positions:
- Stacey Gilbeau, Director
- Divisional Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistants
- Manager, Mental Health and Addictions and Racial Equity
- Manager, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Injury Prevention
- Manager, Oral Health and Vision Screening
- Manager, Healthy Families
- Community Nutrition Assistant
- Family Home Visitors
- Health Promoters
- Health Promotion Worker
- Office Assistants
- Program Assistants
- Public Health Dietitians
- Public Health Nurses
- Public Health Nutritionists
- Regional Program Officer, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
- Youth Development Specialist, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
- Youth Engagement Coordinator, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
Programs:
- Substance Use Prevention
- Healthy Communities
- Injury and Falls Prevention
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Well-Being (Healthy Eating, Healthy Weights, Comprehensive Tobacco Control, Physical Activity, Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation, Diabetes Prevention)
- Workplace Wellness
- Healthy Growth and Development (Reproductive Health, Child Health and Healthy Babies Healthy Children)
Health Protection Division
Positions:
- Stacey Laforest, Director
- Divisional Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistants
- Managers
- Program Officer
- Nurse Practitioners
- Public Health Nurses
- Environmental Support Officers
- Health Promoters
- Public Health Inspectors
- Smoke-Free Ontario Act Inspectors
- iPAC Practitioners
- Program Assistants
- Office Assistants
Programs:
- Environmental Health Policy
- Food Safety
- Growing Family Health Program – Nurse Practitioners
- Health Hazard Prevention and Management
- Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control
- Legislated Enforcement
- 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)
- Smoke-Free Ontario Act Enforcement
- The Point (Harm Reduction Supplies and Services)
- Tuberculosis Prevention and Control
- Vector-Borne Diseases including West Nile virus (WNv)
Knowledge and Strategic Services
Positions:
- Renée St Onge, Director
- Divisional Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistant
- Manager, Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Exchange
- Manager, Population Health Assessment and Surveillance
- Manager, Professional Practice and Development
- Manager, Health Equity
- Manager, Communications
- Social Determinants of Health Nurses
- Foundational Standard Specialists
- Special Advisor, Indigenous Affairs
- Communications Specialists
- Epidemiologists
- Health Promoters
- Workforce Development Officer
- Data Analysts
- Graphic Designer
- Communications Assistant
- Program Assistants
- Research Assistants
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:
- population health assessment and surveillance
- research and knowledge exchange
- program evaluation
- staff development
- student education
- professional practice
- communications
- community and stakeholder engagement
- strategic planning
School Health, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, and COVID-19 Prevention
Positions:
- Stacey Gilbeau, Director
- Divisional Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistants
- Manager, School Health and Behaviour Change
- Manager, Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Managers, COVID-19 and Schools, and Case and Contact Management
- Managers, COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Logistics
- Managers, COVID-19 Vaccine Program
- Community Nutrition Specialist
- COVax Support Assistants
- COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics Logistics Leads
- COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics Logistics Leads – Inventory
- Dental Hygienist
- Health Promoters
- Health Promotion Worker
- Immunizers, COVID-19 Vaccine Program
- Office Assistants
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Program Assistants
- Program Officers
- Public Health (School Focused) Nurses
- Public Health Dietitian
- Public Health Nurses
- Public Health Nutrionist
- Regional Program Officer, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
- Response Assistants
- Scheduling Clerk, COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics
- Science Communications Intern
- Specialist, COVax
- Specialist, COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics Logistics
- Specialist, Lead COVax Inventory
- Supervisor, COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics Booking Call Centre
- Training Specialists
- Youth Development Specialist
- Youth Development Specialist, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
- Youth Engagement Coordinator, North East Tobacco Control Area Network
Programs:
- COVID-19 Behavioural Change
- COVID-19 Case and Contact Management
- COVID-19 Schools and Child Care
- COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Logistics
- School Health (Northern Fruit and Vegetable Program, Resiliency)
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases
This item was last modified on October 12, 2023