Public & Community Health News and Vaccine Updates.
Mar 13, 2023 11:45 AM
11:45 In Person Meeting with Dr. Thomas Piggott
Public & Community Health News and Vaccine Updates.

Dr. Thomas Piggott, MD MSc CCFP FRCPC, is Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer of Peterborough Public Health. Join us as Dr. Piggott shares public and community health news and vaccine update information.

Dr. Piggott has been medical officer of health and VP lead for population health and rural and remote health in the northern region of Labrador-Grenfell Health. He has experience in collaborative Indigenous public health in Canada and internationally.

Through the COVID-19 pandemic, he led a response in solidarity with Indigenous governments in Labrador for outbreak prevention and a vaccination rollout prioritizing Indigenous communities, the health unit said.

Prior to work in Labrador, he was a field doctor with Médicins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a public health and preventive medicine specialist, and a practising family physician who completed his Masters in Public Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and residency training at McMaster University.

This is an in person meeting but will also be available via Zoom at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82832051360?pwd=LzRYcGZsTjYrUk5BYTd1WHYySWpKdz09