{"id":8797,"date":"2025-06-13T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T03:20:25","slug":"canadas-top-doctor-theresa-tam-leaving-position-when-term-ends-june-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canadas-top-doctor-theresa-tam-leaving-position-when-term-ends-june-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s top doctor Theresa Tam leaving position when term ends June&nbsp;20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 As Dr. Theresa Tam prepares to leave her position next week, Canada\u2019s top doctor says it\u2019s more important than ever for Canada to stand up for science and combat disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s held the role of chief public health officer for eight years, but became a household name in the last five years as she led the country\u2019s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Her term ends June 20 and she doesn\u2019t have another job lined up, Tam said in a wide-ranging interview Friday that touched on her desire to be remembered for more than COVID, her passion for health equity and the musical side of her the public hasn\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 As Dr. Theresa Tam prepares to leave her position next week, Canada\u2019s top doctor says it\u2019s more important than ever for Canada to stand up for science and combat disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s held the role of chief public health officer for eight years, but became a household name in the last five years as she led the country\u2019s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Her term ends June 20 and she doesn\u2019t have another job lined up, Tam said in a wide-ranging interview Friday that touched on her desire to be remembered for more than COVID, her passion for health equity and the musical side of her the public hasn\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canadas-top-doctor-theresa-tam-leaving-position-when-term-ends-june-20\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada\u2019s top doctor Theresa Tam leaving position when term ends June&nbsp;20<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,96,18,35,388,97,14,51],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-measles","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}