Dr. Tom Wong at the Public Accounts Committee

On April 11th, 2024. See this statement in context.

April 11th, 2024 / 5:20 p.m.

Chief Medical Officer of Public Health, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Department of Indigenous Services

I have an additional comment regarding that.

Right now there is a new initiative, which is to try to recruit and retain indigenous environmental public health officers. Currently about 40% of the environmental public health officers are indigenous. With this new initiative that's especially supporting indigenous people who want to become one, there are laddering opportunities to work with academic institutions in order to achieve that.

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