> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Eileen de Villa - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/eileen-de-villa/ - Published: 2026-02-23T19:52:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-02-23T19:52:10.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, Person, COVID-19, Canada, Ontario, #toc, Government **Eileen de Villa** is an American-Canadian physician and public health official based in Toronto, Ontario. She is notable in the declared COVID-19 pandemic due to her role as Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto. de Villa is married to Richard Choi, a St. Joseph's Health Centre-employed physician who has direct financial ties to [AstraZeneca](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/AstraZeneca), [Bayer](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Bayer), [Boehringer Ingelheim](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Boehringer-Ingelheim), [Eli Lilly](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Eli-Lilly), HLS Therapeutics, Novartis, [Pfizer](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pfizer), Sanofi, and Servier.[\[1\]](#fn1) This was raised as a potential conflict of interest in March 2021 due to de Villa's role in imposing restrictive public health measures in anticipation of new pharmaceutical products to combat COVID-19, including [COVID-19 vaccines](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-vaccine).[\[2\]](#fn2)[\[3\]](#fn3) ## Career de Villa is the former Medical Officer of Health for Toronto, employed by [Toronto Public Health](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Toronto-Public-Health).[\[4\]](#fn4) She announced her resignation on May 14, 2024, effective at the end of the year.[\[5\]](#fn5) > Good afternoon, Toronto. Today I am announcing my resignation as Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, effective December 31, 2024. > > — Dr. Eileen de Villa (@epdevilla) [May 14, 2024](https://twitter.com/epdevilla/status/1790461695116165252?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) ## Publications - April 28, 2015: "[The evidence base of primary research in public health emergency preparedness: a scoping review and stakeholder consultation](https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-015-1750-1)" - Published in *BMC Public Health* - Co-authored by Yasmin Khan, Ghazal Fazli, [Bonnie Henry](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Bonnie-Henry), Charoula Tsamis, Moira Grant and [Brian Schwartz](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Brian-Schwartz) - Funded by the [Canadian Institutes of Health Research](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Canadian-Institutes-of-Health-Research) (CIHR) ## External links - [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=eileen%5Fde%5Fvilla) - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%5Fde%5FVilla) --- 1. Verma, S., Bucci, C., Choi, R., & Gupta, A. (2020, June 12). *Navigating Vascular Protective Strategies in HighRisk Patients During the Current Era: Practical Applications.* CardioVascUpdate. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210304170904/https://cardiovascupdate.ca/files/2020/CV Update Symposium-Presentation.pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20210304170904/https://cardiovascupdate.ca/files/2020/CV%20Update%20Symposium-Presentation.pdf) [↩︎](#fnref1) 2. Staley, G. (2021, March 4). *Toronto’s Medical Officer, Dr. Eileen De Villa’s husband has financial relationships with major vaccine manufacturers - is this a conflict of interest?* Diverge Media. [↩︎](#fnref2) 3. McGovern, C. (2021, March 8). *Toronto lockdown czar’s husband has “financial ties” to Pfizer, AstraZeneca.* LifeSiteNews. [↩︎](#fnref3) 4. Toronto Public Health. (2019, July 26). *About Dr. Eileen de Villa.* City of Toronto. Retrieved November 23, 2021, from [↩︎](#fnref4) 5. Dr. Eileen de Villa \[@epdevilla\]. (2024, May 14). *“Good afternoon, Toronto. Today I am announcing my resignation as Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health, effective December 31, 2024.”* \[Post\]. X (Formerly Twitter). [↩︎](#fnref5) ## Sign up for White Rose Intelligence Research and intelligence in defense of liberty Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. Access premium profiles by becoming a Patron