{"id":487977,"date":"2026-02-20T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:21:07","slug":"dr-joss-reimer-named-canadas-new-chief-public-health-officer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487977\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Joss Reimer named Canada&#8217;s new chief public health officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joss Reimer, a physician from Manitoba, has been named Canada\u2019s new chief public health officer.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Marjorie Michel welcomed Reimer to the role in a social media post today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She replaces Dr. Theresa Tam, who retired in June after becoming a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Reimer was chief medical officer for the Winnipeg health authority, and was medical lead for Manitoba\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine implementation task force.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the past president of the Canadian Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p>Reimer is set to begin her term on April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Joss Reimer, a physician from Manitoba, has been named Canada\u2019s new chief public health officer. Health Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-487977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}