The C-EnterNet team

The multi-disciplinary C-EnterNet team includes experts with unique combinations of training in epidemiology, veterinary medicine, environmental microbiology and public health.

Dr. Frank Pollari, a veterinarian and senior epidemiologist with the Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, is the project leader. He has extensive surveillance experience and specific expertise in improving both data quality and analysis as well as the scientific interpretation of results.

Dr. André Ravel, a veterinarian and senior quantitative epidemiologist, directs the initiative's scientific framework as well as its source attribution component.

Dr. Angela Cook, a veterinarian and epidemiologist with a background in agri-food inspection and retail food surveillance, leads the initiative's agriculture and retail food components.

Ms. Barbara Marshall, a senior public health manager and public health inspector, leads the public health partnership, and plays a lead role in establishing sentinel site and laboratory working relationships.

Dr. Katarina Pintar, a microbiologist and an epidemiologist, leads the water component, while contributing significantly to the agriculture and retail food components.

Ms. Andrea Nesbitt, an epidemiologist, with a background in enteric disease surveillance and food safety, plays a lead role in epidemiological and statistical analysis and interpretation of human enteric disease data.

Mr. Kevin R. Smith, an epidemiologist analyst, with a background in researching the impacts on human health from environmental exposure, leads C-EnterNet data management component while contributing significantly to the agriculture and retail food components.

The team is supported by a 37-member advisory committee whose members' expertise reflects the scientific and multi-disciplinary nature of C-EnterNet. The committee meets with the team twice a year to provide input into the interpretation of results, program improvements and scientific advances (including improved source attribution methods).

In addition, C-EnterNet employs a part-time retail sampler, Ms. Alyssia Sunnucks, and has a core administrative support person, Ms. Connie Bernard, who is integrally involved in the business activities at C-EnterNet Central in Guelph. In partnership with each sentinel site health unit, C-EnterNet also supports a full-time site liaison position. The C-EnterNet site coordinator in Site 1 (Region of Waterloo Public Health) is Ms. Nancy Sittler, a public health inspector with over 20 years experience in infection control and communicable disease. In Site 2 (Fraser Health Authority), Mr. Rod Asplin brings 10 years experience as an Environmental Health Officer to his role as site coordinator.