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Dr. Shelly Bolotin
Scientist
Research Focus:
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- population immunity
- hepatitis C
- sero-epidemiology
- microbiology
Dr. Erin Hobin
Scientist
Research Focus:
- population-level interventions for obesity prevention
- environmental factors and obesity-related behaviours including healthy eating and physical activity
- school-based policies targeting physical activity and healthy eating
- food and nutrition labels
Dr. Jessica Hopkins
Vice President and Chief, Communicable Disease Control
Research Focus:
- Public health
- Communicable diseases
- Surveillance and epidemiology
- Public health policy
- Public health workforce burnout and resilience
Dr. JinHee Kim
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- surveillance of environmental hazards and exposures
- food safety and risk
- primary care medicine
- land use planning policy
- environmental burden of disease
Dr. Elaina MacIntyre
Epidemiologist Specialist
Research Focus:
- environmental epidemiology
- environmental hygiene
- cancer clusters
- radon
- air pollution
Dr. Samir Patel
Chief Laboratory Science and Operations Officer
Research Focus:
- antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance
- hospital-associated infections
- zoonotic diseases
- Lyme disease
Dr. Curtis Russell
Senior Program Specialist
Research Focus:
- vector-borne diseases
- West Nile Virus and Zika Virus
- Lyme disease
- general insect biology
Dr. Kevin Schwartz
Physician
Research Focus:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Audit and feedback
- Administrative data
- Epidemiology
- Vaccines
Dr. Sarah Wilson
Medical Epidemiologist
Research Focus:
- immunization coverage assessment
- immunization program evaluation
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- outbreak investigation
Updated
14 Aug 2021
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