Session Chair

Full Bio: Peter Coleridge is a Senior Advisor, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, Provincial Health Services Authority in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to this, Peter was the Vice President, Education and Health Promotion, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has over 15 years of experience at the provincial, national and international levels in health promotion, planning, public policy, educational resource material development and training, and marketing and strategic communications. He has a Masters of Health Science (Health Promotion), a Bachelor of Science (Psychology), and formal training in public relations. Peter has also held senior management positions with the former Addiction Research Foundation and the Health Promotion Branch and Substance Abuse Bureau, Ontario Ministry of Health.

Peter is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, a Lecturer in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, a Special Advisor, Mental Health Promotion, Global Economic Roundtable on Mental Health and Addiction, a founding member of the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions, and an Associate of the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto.

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