Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tapped the president of the National Research Council to lead the Public Health Agency of Canada after the abrupt resignation of PHAC's current president last week.
Iain Stewart, a long-serving bureaucrat, will assume the role of president of PHAC effective September 28 — giving the agency tasked with coordinating the country's pandemic response a new leader just as caseloads are on the rise in Ontario and Quebec.
Stewart was just two years into his five-year term as the head of the National Research Council, the government's primary scientific research organization.