Dr. Vasanthi Srinivasan, the former Assistant Deputy Minister of the Health Systems Strategy and Policy Division at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC), is the founding Executive Director of the Ontario Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) SUPPORT Unit. Vasanthi led the MOHLTC Research Program and has held several senior management positions at the federal and provincial levels of government. During her tenure in the Policy Research Initiative of the Privy Council Office of Canada, she was seconded to the Cabinet Office in the United Kingdom to the Performance and Innovation Unit, and she has won awards for her policy work on immigration, indigenous and mental health policy issues. Vasanthi has her PhD from the University of Ottawa.