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Provincial Health Services Authority

Provincial Health Services Authority
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The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a Canadian provincial government agency based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is a province-wide publicly funded healthcare services provider.

History

Following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, PHSA received funding from the Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund as an affiliation institution of the University of British Columbia (UBC).[1]

Penny Ballem was announced as the new interim director of the PHSA on March 31, 2025.[2]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Penny Ballem Interim Director[2:1] Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Réka Gustafson Vice President of Public Health and Wellness, Deputy Provincial Health Officer (former)[3] Vancouver Island Health Authority, UBC School of Population and Public Health, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
Matthew Hetu Information Access Advisor -
Sableen Minhas Communications and Reporting Assistant (former)[4] British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), Captus Advertising, Stenberg College, Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), International Association of Business Communicators British Columbia (IABC/BC)
Laura Sauvé Interim Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control[5] British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program, CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network
Alice Virani Executive Director, Clinical Ethics and Spiritual Care Service[6] BC COVID-19 Strategic Research Advisory Committee, Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
Julie Wilson Provincial Director, Clinical Sourcing[7] BC Clinical and Support Services (BCCSS), Health Shared Services BC, Fraser Health Authority

Subsidiaries

Activities

PHSA has provided funding to:

  1. The Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund. UBC Research + Innovation. Retrieved November 6, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.06-224043/https://research.ubc.ca/crcef ↩︎

  2. Shaw, R. (2025, April 1). NDP’s cost-savings plan for health care starts with $400K salary. The Orca. https://www.theorca.ca/commentary/rob-shaw-ndps-cost-savings-plan-for-health-care-starts-with-400k-salary-10458548 ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. Réka Gustafson. BC Centre for Disease Control. Retrieved December 11, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.11-220653/http://www.bccdc.ca/our-research/people/reka-gustafson ↩︎

  4. Sableen M. LinkedIn. Retrieved June 14, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/sableenminhas/ ↩︎

  5. Laura Sauve. LinkedIn. Retrieved February 1, 2023, from www.linkedin.com/in/laura-sauve-030057236/ ↩︎

  6. Alice Virani. UBC Department of Medical Genetics. Retrieved June 13, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240613234516/https://medgen.med.ubc.ca/alice-virani/ ↩︎

  7. Julie Wilson. LinkedIn. Retrieved June 14, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-wilson-consulting/ ↩︎

  8. Dominato, C. (2020). 2019-2020 Annual Report (p. 21). BCCDC Foundation for Public Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20221112032818/https://bccdcfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BCCDCF_Annual-Report_2020_Final2.pdf↩︎ ↩︎

  9. Stakeholder Report. (2019). British Columbia Academic Health Sciences Network. https://web.archive.org/web/20220520055407/https://www.bcahsn.ca/sites/default/files/2021-06/BCSUPPORTUnit Annual Report 1.0 - 2019-2020 V2.0.pdf ↩︎

  10. 2015 Annual Report. Canadian Public Health Association. Retrieved April 24, 2019, from https://web.archive.org/web/20190424195702/https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/assets/annual-reports/2015_ar_e.pdf ↩︎