January 2005

Biography - Dr. Paul Gully

Dr. Paul Gully was named as one of two Deputy Chief Public Health Officers of the Public Health Agency of Canada in December 2004. Dr. Gully joined Health Canada in 1990 and subsequently held a number of positions within the former Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Protection Branch. In July 2000, he was appointed the first Director General of the new Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control at the Population and Public Health Branch of Health Canada.

Dr. Gully is a physician with specialty training in public health in the United Kngdom and Canada. Prior to training in public health, he worked in the United Kingdom (UK), Zambia, Vancouver and the Northwest Territories. Before joining Health Canada, Dr. Gully was attached to the UK Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre. He was also Medical Officer of Health in Saskatoon from 1986-1990.

Dr. Gully has written several publications on infectious disease epidemiology and held honorary and adjunct academic positions in the UK and Canada and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. He is a past-president of the National Specialty Society for Community Medicine.