Gayle Bursey
Biography:
GAYLE BURSEY is an experience public health expert serving Toronto, North America's forth largest city. Gayle has been is the Director of Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention, leading a directorate that delivers progressive programming in nutrition, physical activity, tobacco, injury and falls prevention.
Prior to this, she was the City's Director Healthy Public Policy, a directorate focused on issues such as, policy measures to mitigate, traffic related air pollution; use of dry cleaner solvents; noise pollution; sustainable diets, and on designing urban space to maximize health.
Before her current stint at the City of Toronto, Gayle severed for 12 years Region of Peele's Director Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. At Peel Region, her management skills earned her a variety of other roles: Director of Growth Management Strategy, Acting Commissioner of Human Services, and Director of Property Transformation.
Gayle earned a BASc, Nutrition Sciences at Ryerson University, a MES (Master of Environmental Studies), Food Policy, at York University, and Fellowship, Public Health Policy, at the Canadian Health Services Foundation.
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