University of Toronto professor Adalstein Brown, who was a regular at Ontario Science Advisory Table press conferences during some of the worst months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is stepping down as one of the table’s co-chairs.
In a news release issued Wednesday, the board said Brown is leaving to focus on his position as dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T.
Co-chair Dr. Brian Schwartz said in a statement that over the past two years, Brown has “been at the forefront of supporting the province’s response to COVID-19,” leading the development of modeling and communicating with experts and stakeholders to ensure practical advice for decision makers in Ontario.
“We would like to express our sincere thanks to Prof. Adalsteinn Brown for his outstanding leadership as [one of] the inaugural co-chairs of the Scientific Advisory Board,” Schwartz said in a statement.
Brown’s replacement is Dr. Upton Allen, who is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto as well as chief of infectious diseases at the Hospital for Sick Children.
Brown has become known for his candid assessments of the situation in Ontario during the pandemic — such as when he said the Omicron wave “will probably be the worst wave of the pandemic” last December and argued for restrictions that would reduce contact.
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