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Meet the isti mentors

President & CEO, Michael Smith Health Research BC 

Bev is a health research system leader with expertise and experience in and passion for the funding, production and use of research evidence to improve health.  She sits on research advisory groups across Canada and internationally, is an associate editor at Implementation Science Communications and participates in the National Alliance of Provincial Health Research Organizations. An adjunct professor at SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences and UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, Bev is also a Chartered Director (Degroote School of Business, McMaster University). She has held a number of management positions in non-profit agencies.

Bev received her MA and PhD from SFU’s School of Communication. She and partner have four children and two grandchildren; they gratefully make their homes on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xÊ·məθkwÉ™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam), SÉ™l̓ílwÉ™taÊ”/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations.