¶ Penny Ballem
Dr. Penny Janet Drury Ballem is a Canadian physician and public health consultant based in British Columbia.
¶ History
Ballem served as Manager for the City of Vancouver from 2008 to 2015.
Ballem is the chair of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH), a position to which she was appointed in January 2019.[1]
¶ COVID-19
Ballem was the executive lead of B.C.’s COVID-19 Immunization Program.[2] For this, she was paid $404,913.75 between January and October 2021, placing her among the top paid public officials in BC in 2021.[3] Ballem was contracted for $250-an-hour through her company, Pendru Consulting 354948 BC Ltd., for “analysis and planning” of the COVID vaccine project.
¶ External links
Dr. Penny Ballem. (2020). Vancouver Coastal Health. http://archive.today/2022.04.29-010036/http://www.vch.ca/about-us/leadership/board-of-directors/board-members/dr-penny-ballem ↩︎
Ministry of Health. (2021, March 30). Immunize BC, pharmacists move up vaccines for ages 55-65 on Lower Mainland | BC Gov News. Government of British Columbia. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0061-000595 ↩︎
Mackin, B. (2022, January 12). COVID Exclusive: $405,000 and counting for B.C. vaccine boss Ballem. TheBreaker. http://archive.today/2022.04.29-004605/https://thebreaker.news/news/ballem-bucks-continued/ ↩︎