Maura Brown MD MHA FRCPC
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
Head, Diagnostic Imaging, BC Cancer, Vancouver
Co-Chair BC Cancer Planetary Health Unit
Maura Brown MD MHA is a diagnostic radiologist at BC Cancer, Vancouver and Clinical Associate Professor University of British Columbia. A lifelong enjoyment of the outdoors and love for all living things led to her interest in climate change, biodiversity loss and the associated risks to human health. She is dedicated to engaging others in reducing emissions and waste in healthcare, with a focus on radiology. Dr Brown chairs the BC Radiologic Society Sustainable Medical Imaging working group, co-chairs the Canadian Association of Radiology (CAR) Sustainability working group and co-chairs the provincial BC Cancer Planetary Health Unit. She is a member of Radiologists for a Sustainable Future (R4SF), the Association of Academic Radiologists (AAR) Sustainability working group and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE).
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Devon Greyson (PhD, MLIS) is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health, an Investigator at the Vaccine Evaluation Center at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar, and the CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Building trusted population health information systems and interventions. Dr. Greyson is a health information scientist who applies qualitative, multiple, and mixed methods to understand health information behaviour and to assess effectiveness of population health information interventions. Their current research focuses largely on vaccination, including improving vaccine communication and vaccine safety and coverage surveillance. Prior to establishing this program of research, Devon worked in shelters, co-operatives, in music, public, and academic libraries, and as a research-embedded health librarian.
