Dr Dominique Charron

Dr Dominique Charron is Vice-President, Programs and Partnerships at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), where she leads research for development programming strategy and builds partnerships toward supporting knowledge and innovation in developing regions, led by researchers in those regions.

She contributed to writing IDRC’s new Strategy 2030, and a transformational agenda for the organization. She has implemented a new framework for more gender-responsive and inclusive programming that reduces inequalities in the world. She was instrumental in building IDRC’s animal health innovation and emerging infectious disease prevention and control programs and co-authored the Centre’s pandemic preparedness plan in 2009. Dominique previously was IDRC’s Director, Agriculture and Environment, and Program Leader, Ecosystems and Human Health.

Dr Dominique Charron holds a PhD in epidemiology and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Guelph. Previously, she managed research programs on infectious diseases, environment and climate change and engaged in international cooperation with Caribbean developing countries while at the Public Health Agency of Canada. She has authored reports, editorials, an edited volume and articles in peer-review in the areas of One Health, Ecohealth, and emerging diseases. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.