Anya Keefe is an occupational and public health consultant with over 35 years of experience in occupational disease prevention, policy and research. She has consulted for a number of academic and research institutions, government and regulatory agencies, charitable organizations and private industry. Prior to launching her consulting practice, Anya was the Director of the Research Secretariat at WorkSafeBC, where she created and superintended a systematic process for research, knowledge transfer and strategic initiatives. During her time at WorkSafeBC, she also gained considerable policy and public consultation experience developing occupational health and safety regulations as well as occupational disease compensation policy. 

Her initial career was with the BC Cancer Agency, where she performed retrospective exposure assessments for occupational epidemiological studies in British Columbia and internationally. Since 2014, she has provided pro bono assistance to workers diagnosed with occupational diseases (or their surviving spouses), helping to identify possible sources of exposure and working with them to create comprehensive occupational histories to support their claim for workers compensation. Anya has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and a graduate degree in Occupational Hygiene, both from the University of British Columbia. She is adjunct faculty in the School of Population and Public Health – and fun fact, she is also a formally trained chef and chocolatier.