From top left to bottom right: Olivia Aguiar, Shianne Bains, Tobin Copley, and Jeanette Foreman.

‍We are pleased to introduce the individuals who are leading injury prevention initiatives in each of the regional health authorities. Olivia Aguiar, Shianne Bains, Tobin Copley, and Jeanette Foreman hold the role of Lead, Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion.

These positions, created in 2022, are BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) postings embedded within the regional health authorities that will complement and support health authority injury prevention priorities and efforts. The Leads will collaborate with provincial, regional, and local stakeholders in the development, implementation, and evaluation of injury prevention strategies, working with BCCDC and health authority colleagues, Indigenous and local communities, the BCIRPU and others. The leads are also members of the BCIRPU, who support the leads by providing expertise and resources.

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Meet the leads:

Olivia Aguiar, Island Health Authority

Olivia Aguiar (she/her) is an Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Lead with the BC Centre for Disease Control embedded in Island Health and member of the BCIRPU. She has a PhD in Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, from the Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab at Simon Fraser University, and a certificate in Biomedical Visualization and Communication. Olivia is a multidisciplinary researcher with experience in quantitative and qualitative methods and analyses, science and scholarly communication, data visualization, and community outreach. She brings expertise in sport-related head impacts and concussions, fall prevention, and fall-related injuries.

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Shianne Bains, Interior Health Authority

Prior to joining the BCCDC, Shianne was the Coordinator for the Fall Prevention Team at Fraser Health where she led the Mobile Clinic. She completed her BSc in Health Sciences from Simon Fraser University in 2018, and is currently working towards her MA in Community Development from the University of Victoria. Among other extracurriculars, Shianne is a Board Member for the Canadian Red Cross Council for First Aid Education. Outside of work, Shianne loves to go on outdoor adventures, travel and play soccer.

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Tobin Copley, Fraser Health Authority

Tobin has a MA in Medical Geography from McMaster University. Prior to coming to Fraser Health in 2015, Tobin had been a career-long population health researcher with a focus on prevention, both at UBC at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and later spending over a decade running his own applied social research firm.

In his new role, Tobin will work with the Fraser Health Environmental Health Services & Healthy Built Environment Program, and provincial, local, and regional key partners. He will receive co-leadership from Megan Oakey, BCCDC Provincial Injury Prevention Manager, and Sandra Gill, Fraser Health Manager for Environmental Health Services & Healthy Built Environment Program.

Tobin lives in Vancouver. He lives to be active and outside. Tobin has spent decades riding bicycles for transportation, recreation and competition, and supporting youth high performance athlete development. He used to be fast. He also enjoys skeleton, and skate skiing badly.

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Jeanette Foreman, Northern Health Authority

JJeanette has a BA (Hons) in psychology and an MPH in health promotion, completing her practicum in rural injury prevention and unintentional poisonings in children. She has been in the Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Lead role since April 2022, serving the Northern Health region.

Previously, Jeanette has worked in applied health services research, evaluation, and knowledge translation roles.  She has trained health professionals in evidence-informed practice and quality improvement skills, and facilitated priority improvement projects in system quality and patient safety.  

Jeanette brings over ten years of fall prevention experience into the role and has since gained new experience working in life promotion and suicide and self-harm prevention. She earned her Road Safety Professional 1 (RSP1) designation in 2024. Jeanette is dedicated to implementing socioecological health promotion approaches to achieve health equity and to reduce the burden of injury among rural populations.

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