Public Health Dietitian
Gilles Cloutier

I help educate parents and caregivers in preparing and serving healthy food and providing an environment where children will want to eat these foods. That’s where adults have the biggest impact! I also have the opportunity to influence the health of Ottawa residents at the beginning of their life. We provide children with a chance to start off and grow up healthy.

The nutrition team is a fabulous and dynamic team of hardworking and creative people. Working with a strong team like this is motivating! Ottawa Public Health is a great place to work if you want to be innovative and creative!

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Public Health Nurse - exposé program
Lindsay Colas

I love my work as a Public Health Nurse with exposé – a youth-based tobacco use prevention program. I really enjoy working with the public and being in the community. In my view, it is important to encourage young people, our future ambassadors, to adopt healthy living habits.

Ottawa Public Health offers excellent working conditions and provides a great deal of flexibility and promotional opportunities. I encourage our successors to come and join our big team, because Ottawa Public Health offers a variety of programs that will arouse your interest. It is a thoroughly pleasant working environment.

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Public Health Inspector
Alison Girroir

Every day my role as a public health inspector is different which is really exciting. My role now as a public health educator involves teaching about issues in the environment that may put your health at risk, writing about food safety issues, and teaching the food handler’s safety course.

I enjoy the morale and the support I have working here at the City. We also have the opportunity to participate in flexible workweeks and continuing education courses that are available to us free of charge. Those are invaluable!

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Supervisor - Case Management and Info Line - Healthy Sexuality
Chloe Healy

Currently I supervise a multidisciplinary team who follow-up on reportable communicable infections, more specifically, sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

I enjoy my job because it represents the perfect combination of direct client service delivery, disease prevention, and health promotion at both the individual and the community level. There are opportunities to participate in a variety of outreach initiatives and presentations while incorporating project management skills.

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Project Officer
Joanne Kukulka

I work part-time at Ottawa Public Health (OPH) as a Project Officer. I enjoy my work here as an editor of two publications; the OPH Physicians’ Update and Synergy, our monthly internal newsletter for staff.

My position at OPH enables me to use some of the skills that I used in my teaching career. The flexibility in my schedule provides me with some real work-life balance, something I did not have as a full-time teacher. OPH staff are professional, dedicated, and committed to making our city a healthier place to live.

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Summer Student - Environmental Monitoring Assistant
Katelyn Oberlin

Ottawa is a wonderful place to live and work! Ottawa Public Health has a supportive environment and great people to work with. It’s a wonderful job and you get to make a difference!

I am a student at Ryerson University in Toronto studying Occupational and Public Health and Safety with a concentration in Public Health. During my summer position with Ottawa Public Health, I was involved with West Nile Virus surveillance and collecting water samples at Ottawa’s beaches for water quality testing.

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Public Health Nurse - Healthy Sexuality
Tracy Rizok

I inform and educate clients regarding healthy sexuality, which also includes the opportunity to work in schools and community-based clinics.

I have worked in a variety of nursing positions but it was not until I joined Ottawa Public Health (OPH) that I felt that I had an opportunity to make a difference. OPH allows nurses to use their skills and abilities in ways that other areas of nursing may not allow the time for. OPH provides a positive and encouraging work environment where a team approach is the norm.

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Supervisor - Family and Community Health
Marie-Claude Turcotte

I supervise the School Age Health Program overseeing 20 public health nurses that work in elementary schools creating healthy environments for students. I enjoy my job because I have the opportunity to make a difference at the community level as well as helping my team achieve their goals.

I like the independence my job provides as well as the fact that Ottawa Public Health programs are recognized provincially.

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