Perry Kendall

After about 20 years, Kendall retired from the Provincial Health Office role on Jan. 31, 2018 and was replaced by Bonnie Henry.

[1] Born in the United Kingdom in 1943, Kendall completed his undergraduate medical training at University College Hospital Medical School in 1968 before spending a year as Senior House Officer at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.

Kendall also participated on a number of provincial and national committees and was the first provincial-territorial co-chair of then Pan-Canadian Public Health Network Council.

Kendall appointed Evan Adams and Bonnie Henry as Deputy Provincial Health Officers.

He was responsible for a number of ground breaking health reports including the first provincial report on the health and wellness of Indigenous People in British Columbia and played a significant role in the establishment of Insite, North America’s first legally sanctioned supervised consumption site.