Dr. Bonnie J. Fraser Henry is a well-known doctor from Canada. She is the first woman to be the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia (BC). She was given the job in 2018, and since then she has been doing the things that come with the job.
Dr. Henry has a lot of experience with global pandemics, preventative medicine, and public health, thanks to her time as deputy provincial health officer and interim provincial executive medical director for the BC Center for Disease Control (BCCDC), among other jobs.
Because of all she did to help health and the health system during the pandemic, The New York Times called her “one of the most effective public health figures in the world” in 2020, and Canadian newspapers called her a “calm voice in a sea of coronavirus madness.”
In this part, let’s talk about where Dr. Bonnie is right now.
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Where Is Dr. Bonnie Henry Today?
Dr. Bonnie Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for the province of BC and an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine.
As a Provincial Health Officer, Henry is in charge of keeping an eye on everyone’s health in British Columbia and putting in place steps to prevent, control, promote, and protect health. She has been a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia since 2010.
Dr. Bonnie has worked in specialized public health jobs like being the medical director for the provincial emerging and vector-borne diseases program and the provincial executive medical director of the BC Centre for Disease Control.
Dr. Bonnie is thought to be the best public health leader in the world. She is the Deputy Provincial Health Officer, was the chair of Immunize Canada, is a member of the Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the National Infection Control Guidelines Steering Committee, among other things.
Bonnie Henry Health Update
As a Provincial Health Officer for the Province of BC, Dr. Bonnie Henry is in charge of giving all the facts and updates about health to the people of BC and dealing with any health-related problems that may arise in BC.
On April 20, 2022, Henry gave an update on the COVID pandemic. She said that her province will no longer have to follow public health rules about wearing masks and staying away from other people. She even decided to stop the province’s daily updates on COVID-19 and switch to weekly updates on new infections and deaths, saying again that the virus is “not there right now.”
But people didn’t like her decision, especially when she got rid of the mask rule and didn’t have a clear plan for when the school would reopen, and she got a lot of criticism for it. This is not the first time Dr. Bonie made a decision that the people did not like.
During the pandemic, Dr. Bonnie Henry was harassed, slashed, and even threatened with death by the people of BC because they didn’t like what she did to stop the COVID-19 outbreak.
People in BC held protests to criticize Henry for the restrictions she put on social mobilization during the pandemic, and they continued to make fun of her by putting up posters and posting on social media. People who spread lies about maskers even posted violent and offensive comments about her online.
More On Dr. Bonnie Henry- Ex-husband And Children
Sources say that Dr. Bonnie Henry was married to her long-time boyfriend, Bob Henry, for 20 years. Not much else is known about her personal life.
Bonnie met Bob when they were both in the Royal Canadian Navy. They ended up getting married. But after 20 years, the couple broke up. There is also information about her children under the sheets.
The Provincial Health Services Authority pays Dr. Bonnie Henry’s salary and benefits, and the Ministry pays for any costs she has to pay for herself.
The Breaker News said that her contract said she would make a gross annual salary of $301,078 plus an extra $12,000 for the Ministry’s public health on-call rate and up to $5,000 for professional membership and licensing fees, as well as pension, health, dental, and insurance benefits.
The price of her contract was set at $384,316. But the PHSA sunshine list shows that Henry got $342,292 and $9,758 in reimbursements for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2021.
