Astrid Guttmann is a Senior Scientist and Chief Science Officer at ICES, Canada’s largest health services and policy research institute. She is also a general paediatrician and Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Child Health Services and Policy, Professor of Paediatrics, Health Policy and Public Health and co-Director of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children at the University of Toronto. The Leong Centre is focused on catalyzing research and improvements in child health equity. Her research aims to improve child health through population-based studies that inform or evaluate health system programs and wider policies with a focus on health equity. She leads provincial initiatives in Ontario to build integrated, multi-sector data platforms and develop governance and strategies for their use for research, analytics and policy development and sits on a number of local and international policy and research advisory boards.