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# Health Products and Food Branch
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/health-products-and-food-branch/
- Published: 1999-01-02T17:43:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T22:36:13.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

The **Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB)** is an office within [Health Canada](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Health-Canada).

## Personnel

| Name                | Position                                                                  | Notes                        |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| Sven Schirmer       | Senior Advisor to the Assistant Deputy Minister[\[1\]](#fn1)[\[2\]](#fn2) | Policy Horizons Canada       |
| Maria Sultan-Khan   | Senior Policy Advisor, Assistant Deputy Minister's Office[\[3\]](#fn3)    | Women in Global Health (WGH) |
| Margaret Zimmermann | Senior Policy Advisor, Assistant Deputy Minister's Office[\[4\]](#fn4)    | \-                           |

## Directorates and offices

- [Biologic and Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Directorate](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Biologic-and-Radiopharmaceutical-Drugs-Directorate) (BRDD)
- Food Directorate
- [Marketed Health Products Directorate](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Marketed-Health-Products-Directorate) (MHPD)
- Medical Devices Directorate
- Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate
- Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion
- Pharmaceutical Drugs Directorate
- [Policy, Planning and International Affairs Directorate](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Policy-Planning-and-International-Affairs-Directorate)
- [Resource Management and Operations Directorate](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Resource-Management-and-Operations-Directorate)
- Veterinary Drugs Directorate

## External links

- [Website](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/corporate/about-health-canada/branches-agencies/health-products-food-branch.html)

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1. *Sven Schirmer.* LinkedIn. Retrieved July 4, 2024, from <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sven-schirmer/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. Shared Services Canada. (2020, October 10). *Sven Schirmer - Senior Advisor.* Government of Canada. <https://web.archive.org/web/20240704224708/https://new.geds-sage.gc.ca/en/GEDS/?pgid=015&dn=Q049U1ZFTi5TQ0hJUk1FUkBIQy1TQy5HQy5DQSxPVT1BRE1PLUJTTUEsT1U9QURNLVNNQSxPVT1IUEZCLURHUFNBLE9VPUhDLVNDLE89R0MsQz1DQQ==> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Experience | Maria Sultan-Khan, MSc.* LinkedIn. Retrieved July 4, 2024, from <https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-sultan-khan-msc-83a62679/details/experience/> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. Shared Services Canada. (2020, October 10). *Margaret Zimmermann - Senior Advisor.* Government of Canada. <https://web.archive.org/web/20240704223904/https://geds-sage.itsso.gc.ca/en/GEDS?pgid=015&dn=Q049TUFSR0FSRVQuWklNTUVSTUFOTkBIQy1TQy5HQy5DQSxPVT1BRE1PLUJTTUEsT1U9QURNLVNNQSxPVT1IUEZCLURHUFNBLE9VPUhDLVNDLE89R0MsQz1DQQ==> [↩︎](#fnref4)