Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 9, 2022
• Invested on: June 25, 2025

Angela Ella Cooper Brathwaite, C.M., O.Ont.
Whitby, Ontario

Long-time nurse Angela Cooper Brathwaite has done it all. A former regional manager in community health and staunch public policy advocate, she helped bring about Ontario’s Healthy Babies Healthy Children program in the 1990s. At Ontario Tech University, where she is an associate graduate faculty member, she focuses her research on culturally tailored intervention programs for type II diabetes among racialized, marginalized and immigrant populations. Former president of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, she now co-chairs its Anti-Black Racism Task Force.