External Committees

Infection Prevention and Control Canada builds relationships with individuals, committees and institutions that influence and relate to infection prevention and control in Canada and globally. Below is a growing list of partnerships that reflect our involvement.


Reporting To Board through Executive Director
Committee/Task Group	Representative
Accreditation Canada	Director(MD)
AMR Aware Canada coordinated by NCCID	Nalini Agnihotri
Canadian Antimicrobial (AMR) Innovation Coalition (CAIC)	President IPAC Canada and Executive Director
Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP)	Senthuri Paramalingam
Canadian Nurses Association Network of Nursing Specialties	Barbara Catt
Canadian Standards Association:
CSA Perioperative Committee	Anne Bialachowski
CSA Sterilization Technical Committee TC-Z262	Merlee Steele-Rodway
CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Healthcare Technologies and Systems	Murtuza Diwan
CSA Z8000 Health Care Design	Barb Shea
CSA Technical Subcommittee on HVAC Systems in HCFs CSA Plumbing Committee CSA, The Healthcare Engineering and Physical Plant Technical Committee	Karen Stoopnikoff Jessica Fullerton Kathryn Wyndham
CSA Z317.13 Infection Control During Construction, Renovation and Maintenance of HCFs	Jessica Fullerton
CSA Z317.12 Cleaning and Disinfection Standard	Jim Gauthier
Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC)	President, IPAC Canada
Chief Public Health Officer Health Professions Forum	President IPAC Canada and Executive Director
Ethical Framework Standards Collaboration (with APIC)	Madeleine Ashcroft, Co-chair
Global Infection Prevention and Control Network (WHO	President, IPAC Canada and Executive Director
Immunize Canada	Eleanor Paget
International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)	(President) Barb Catt
National Patient Safety Roundtable	President, IPAC Canada
Ontario Ministry of Health Hospital Study Working Groups	President, IPAC Canada and Executive Director
World Health Organization IPAC in Dialysis Units	Colleen Weir