Donna Turner is an Epidemiologist and Provincial Director of the Population Oncology portfolio at CancerCare Manitoba. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. She began her training at the University of Victoria in Health Information Science, followed by graduate work in epidemiology and oncology at the Universities of Calgary and Alberta and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. She further developed her interest in cancer epidemiology by working at two Canadian cancer agencies (the Alberta Cancer Board and CancerCare Manitoba).

As a result of these experiences, her research interests revolve around the use of population-based cancer registry data, particularly record linkage using cancer registries and administrative data (information collected as part of the management of health care insurance plans or employment) as a means of informing cancer control activities. Her current position allows her to work in various aspects of cancer control research - from prevention/etiology to early detection to diagnosis/treatment to outcomes - using the population-based data resources of the provincial health department and the cancer agency in Manitoba.

Jane Griffith is an Epidemiologist and Team Leader of the Epidemiology Unit at CancerCare Manitoba. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Griffith earned her PhD at the University of Manitoba.

Currently, her research focuses on behavioural and environmental risk factors for chronic diseases including cancer and diabetes. Her interest in using risk factor surveillance to inform effective prevention practices has resulted in involvement with a variety of agencies including Aboriginal organizations, Regional Health Authorities, government departments, non-government organizations, universities, school systems and communities.

An active member of Partners in Planning for Healthy Living, a Manitoba collaborative group of stakeholders, Dr. Griffith provides analytic support to communities and regions interested in collecting and analyzing data to support planning for programs and interventions. She has also been involved in the development and administration of the Manitoba Youth Health Survey in Manitoba schools.

Gail Noonan is the Manager of the Cancer Registry and a certified tumour registrar. She has spent her career at CancerCare Manitoba worked at CCMB for 30 years now with most of those years in the Cancer Registry as a cancer registrar.

Her research interests revolve around the collection and quality of the data in the Manitoba Cancer Registry and staying up-to-date with all the current coding and staging classifications to assist researchers, analysts and/or physicians looking to the Registry for information. She chairs the Committee on Data and Quality Management which provides recommendations and advice to the Canadian Council of Cancer Registries on matters relating to the quality and the standardization of the Canadian Cancer Registry data collection, storage, analysis and reporting. The membership includes representatives from across Canada and allows her to network, leverage knowledge and keep current with all aspects of cancer data collection in the Registry.