¶ Timothy Evans
Dr. Timothy Grant Evans, MD, PhD is a Canadian public health academic. He is the Director and Associate Dean of McGill University's School of Population and Global Health.[1] He is on the board of directors for Last Mile Health.[2] He also serves as Executive Director of the Government of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and a member of its Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group (VSRF).[3][4] He is described as a co-founder of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.[5]
He previously served as director of the Health Equity Theme at the Rockefeller Foundation.[5:1]
¶ History
Evans received his medical degree from McMaster University. He studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.[5:2]
¶ Career
Early in his career, Evans worked as an attending internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and as an assistant professor in International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health.[5:3]
From 2003-2010, Evans served as assistant director general of the World Health Organization (WHO).[5:4] He championed the WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health which ran from 2005-2008,[6] and oversaw the production of the annual World Health Report.[5:5]
From 2010-2013, he was dean of the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health at Brac University in Bangladesh.[5:6]
From 2013-2019, Evans was senior director of the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank Group.[5:7]
Evans participated in "A Spreading Plague," a pandemic preparedness exercise which took place on February 14, 2019 in Munich, Germany.[7][8] The exercise simulated "command, control, and coordination of an international response to an unusual and rapidly spreading biological event."[9]
Evans became the inaugural Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) at McGill University in September 2019.[1:1]
On October 18, 2019, Evans participated in Event 201, a tabletop pandemic preparedness exercise simulating the response to a global coronavirus pandemic.[10]
¶ COVID-19
On April 23, 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the creation of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force co-led by Evans.[11][12] A secretariat for the task force was housed at Evans's McGill School of Population and Global Health.[13]
Evans spoke at the 3rd Annual Canada-Italy Business Forum on Artificial Intelligence on November 18-19, 2021.[1:2]
Evans was a member of the International Advisory Committee for the World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress 2023 which took place from June 25-30, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario.[14]
¶ External links
Tim Evans - Covid Immunity Task Force (CITF), McGill Faculty of Medicine. Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada. Retrieved December 5, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221205071243/https://italchamber.qc.ca/speakers/dr-tim-evans/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Our Leadership. Last Mile Health. Retrieved May 2, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240502201500/https://lastmilehealth.org/about-us/our-leadership/ ↩︎
Labonne, S. Leadership Group. COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. Retrieved April 24, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.03.31-011624/https://www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/leadership-group/ ↩︎
Vaccine surveillance Reference group (VSRG). (2021). COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. http://archive.today/2021.04.28-205527/https://www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/vaccine-surveillance-reference-group-vsrg/ ↩︎
Tim Evans. World Bank Blogs. Retrieved May 12, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.05.12-164342/https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/team/t/tim-evans ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Marmot, M., Friel, S., Bell, R., Houweling, T. A., & Taylor, S. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. World Health Organization; Commission on Social Determinants of Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20231022122123/https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/43943/9789241563703_eng.pdf?sequence=1 ↩︎
Cameron, E., Katz, R., Konyndyk, J., & Nalabandian, M. (2019). A Spreading Plague: Lessons and Recommendations for Responding to a Deliberate Biological Event (p. 8). Nuclear Threat Initiative. https://web.archive.org/web/20230630161331/https://media.nti.org/documents/NTI_Paper_A_Spreading_Plague_FINAL_061119.pdf ↩︎
Tabletop Exercise on International Response to Deliberate Biological Events Munich Security Conference - Participants List. (2019). Nuclear Threat Initiative. https://web.archive.org/web/20230630164516/https://media.nti.org/documents/Participants_List_TTX_on_Deliberate_Bio_Event_2019_MSC_2.14_FINAL.pdf ↩︎
A Spreading Plague: Lessons and Recommendations for Responding to a Deliberate Biological Event. (2019, June 13). The Nuclear Threat Initiative. http://archive.today/2022.03.25-104220/https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/spreading-plague-lessons-and-recommendations-responding-deliberate-biological-event/↩︎ ↩︎
Event 201. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved May 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240511171034/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise ↩︎
Prime Minister announces new support for COVID-19 medical research and vaccine development. (2020, April 23). Prime Minister of Canada. http://archive.today/2020.05.09-223235/https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2020/04/23/prime-minister-announces-new-support-covid-19-medical-research-and ↩︎
Zimonjic, P., & Kapelos, V. (2020, April 23). WHO set pandemic response back by 2-3 weeks, says doctor on new federal task force. CBC News. http://archive.today/2020.04.24-102736/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/naylor-china-who-data-trust-1.5543281 ↩︎
COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. McGill University School of Population and Global Health. Retrieved May 18, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.18-193120/https://www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-us/covid-19-immunity-task-force ↩︎
International Advisory Committee. World Non-Communicable Diseases Congress 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230927205948/https://www.torontownc2023.org/international-advisory-committee/ ↩︎