Meaghan Thumath

Meaghan Thumath is a registered nurse and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the regional director of communicable disease control at Vancouver Coastal Health.

For over a decade Meaghan has provided technical assistance to international organizations such as the World Bank and the Global Fund to End AIDS, TB, and Malaria, supporting outbreak response and strengthening health systems in over 26 countries in Central Asia, Latin America, West Africa, Central Africa and North Africa. She has also served as the chief of staff to the Minister of Mental Health and Addiction and as a senior practice leader at the BC Centre for Disease Control. She is an active member of the World Health Organization’s WHO Emergencies Programme (WHE) with recent deployments to support the COVID-19 response in South Africa and the Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  

As a clinician scientist, Meaghan's research and practice focuses on health systems strengthening and the intersection between human rights and outbreak response. She is currently a Trudeau Scholar and doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention and holds an academic affiliation with the Women’s Health Research Institute at UBC. She has a Master of Science in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is a registered nurse with advanced practice certification in IPC, reproductive health, HIV and addiction medicine.