{"id":52621,"date":"2018-12-18T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=52621"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:40","slug":"carleton-professor-appointed-to-health-canada-scientific-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-professor-appointed-to-health-canada-scientific-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Professor Appointed to Health Canada Scientific Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Professor Appointed to Health Canada Scientific Advisory Committee\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/sce.carleton.ca\/faculty\/jaskolka\/\">Jason Jaskolka<\/a>, professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/\">Department of Systems and Computer Engineering<\/a>, has been appointed to Health Canada&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/drugs-health-products\/medical-devices\/activities\/scientific-expert-advisory-committees\/digital-health-technologies.html\">Scientific Advisory Committee on Digital Health Technologies (SAC-DHT)<\/a> for a two-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am honoured to participate in Health Canada\u2019s SAC-DHT and contribute to strengthening Canada\u2019s global leadership in cybersecurity research, awareness and advancement, especially in the emerging and impactful area of digital health technologies,\u201d said Jaskolka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAC-DHT provides Health Canada with timely scientific, technical, medical and clinical advice related to the regulation of digital health technology. Involvement of the scientific, medical and consumer communities in the regulatory review process enhances transparency, provides an opportunity for external advice and improves the device review process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaskolka\u2019s research spans cybersecurity evaluation and assurance, security by design, software engineering, distributed systems and formal specification and verification, with applications including critical infrastructure, cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). Prior to joining Carleton, he was a U.S. States Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where he worked on critical infrastructure cybersecurity. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca\">Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carleton Flipboard account: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@carletonstories\/carleton-stories-0gbu905my\">https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@carletonstories\/carleton-stories-0gbu905my<\/a><br>\n<strong>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>Need an expert?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Go to:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts\">www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s Jason Jaskolka, professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, has been appointed to Health Canada&#8217;s Scientific Advisory Committee on Digital Health Technologies (SAC-DHT) for a two-year term. \u201cI am honoured to participate in Health Canada\u2019s SAC-DHT and contribute to strengthening Canada\u2019s global leadership in cybersecurity research, awareness and advancement, especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":51692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,112],"class_list":["post-52621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-awards","tag-systems-and-computer-engineering"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52626,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52621\/revisions\/52626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}