Frank Gavin has chaired OSSU’s Board of Directors since 2022, having previously served on the Board from 2014 to 2020. He has been involved in health care and health research, mainly as a volunteer, from the time he joined the Family Advisory Committee to The Hospital for Sick Children in 1995. He later chaired the committee for four years and then founded and chaired the Canadian Family Advisory Network, which linked family councils at paediatric centres across Canada. From 2011 to 2017 he was a public member of The Canadian Drug Expert Committee at The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). He directed the Citizen Engagement Program for CHILD-BRIGHT, the national CIHR research network focused on children with brain-based developmental disabilities, from 2016 to 2021 and from 2019 to 2024 chaired the Public Advisory Council of the Health Data Research Network (Canada). Frank also served on the inaugural Patient Advisory Committee of The Society for Medical Decision-Making and has had articles published in the BMJ, Healthy Debate, and Paediatrics and Child Health. For nearly 30 years he taught English at Centennial College in Toronto.