Susan Fletcher
Health Canada
Ms. Susan Fletcher is the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Healthy
Environments and Consumer Safety Branch (HECSB) at Health Canada. The Branch
promotes healthy and safe living, working and recreational environments and
works to reduce the harms caused by tobacco, alcohol, controlled substances,
environmental contaminants, and unsafe consumer and industrial products.
HECSB is a science branch with close to 70 percent of staff conducting
research or related science activities, including performing a range of
surveillance and risk assessment activities to better understand and manage
the risks to human health.
Prior to joining HECSB, Susan was Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of
First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. Over the course of her public service
career, she has held various senior level positions at Health Canada as well
as Executive Director of the Voluntary Sector Task Force with the Privy
Council Office and Account Executive, Public Service Commission.
