Canada launches new preventive health advisory committee after disbanding task force
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OTTAWA — The federal government has launched a new advisory committee on preventive health care more than a year after pausing the work of a task force that had come under fire for failing to keep up with expert advice on cancer screening.
The National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services is a 14-member group led by Dr. David Keegan, a family physician and a professor at the University of Calgary’s school of medicine.
It replaces a task force that was launched in 2009 to develop preventive health services guidelines and screening recommendations for conditions like cervical and breast cancer.
That group’s work was paused in March 2025 by Mark Holland, the health minister at the time, after concerns were raised about the task force’s unwillingness to change breast cancer screening guidelines.
