Gracia Mabaya

Biography

Gracia is a public health professional currently working as a Lead, Clinical and Quality Standards at Ontario Health. In this role, she leads the development and updates of quality standards on various health conditions and processes of care to improve the quality of clinical care in Ontario, as well as patient health outcomes. She possesses international professional experience working as a Consultant with the Convention Secretariat of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

Gracia joined the PhD program in Health Policy and Management at DeGroote School of Business as a part-time student in 2020. She holds a Master of Science in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and a Master of Public Health from Western University.

Gracia is currently working on her PhD thesis focused on the role of social dynamics and hierarchy in antibiotic prescribing within clinical teams in acute care settings. Her experience with the implications of appropriate antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial stewardship while developing Ontario Health’s Lyme disease clinical guidance document, in collaboration with Public Health Ontario, clinical and public health experts, and people with lived experience, sparked her interest in further understanding related issues from the Ontario perspective.

Gracia also has sessional instructor experience at DeGroote School of Business, teaching the Business Administration Health Care Funding and Resource Allocation (C715) Course.