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Dr. Antoine Corbeil
Medical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Enteric Diseases
- Global Health
- Parasitology
- Quality
Dr. Shelly Bolotin
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Vaccine-preventable diseases
- Population immunity
- Sero-epidemiology
- Microbiology
Dr. Shawn Clark
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
- Arthropod-borne and zoonotic viruses
Dr. Erin Hobin
Senior Scientist
Research Focus:
- Population health intervention research
- Experimental and quasi-experimental studies
- Interventions to prevent and reduce chronic disease risk factors and improve health equity
- Alcohol policy
- Integrated knowledge translation
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. Karl Kabasele
Physician Lead
Research Focus:
- Health communication
- Smoking cessation
- Medical education
- Public health education through broadcast media
- Frontline public health management
Dr. Yasmin Khan
Physician
Research Focus:
- Public health emergency preparedness
- Health system emergency management
- Health systems research
- Implementation science
Dr. JinHee Kim
Physician Lead
Research Focus:
- Public health assessment and management of environmental hazards and exposures
- Clusters of non-communicable diseases
- Food safety
- Legionella
- Risk communication
- Environmental burden of disease
Dr. Julianne Kus
Deputy Chief, Microbiology and Laboratory Science
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Genomic epidemiology
- Outbreak analysis
- Bacteriology
- Mycology
- Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms
Dr. Pamela Leece
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Substance use, harm reduction and overdose prevention
- Public health
- Health services
- Quality improvement and knowledge translation
- Program evaluation
Dr. Angela Ma
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Mycobacteriology
- Molecular epidemiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
Dr. Liane Macdonald
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Communicable disease control, prevention and risk assessment
- Blood-borne infections, respiratory diseases, and enteric and zoonotic diseases
- Infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology
- Knowledge synthesis and knowledge translation
- Public health program evaluation, policy analysis and strategy development
Dr. Elaina MacIntyre
Epidemiologist Specialist
Research Focus:
- environmental epidemiology
- environmental hygiene
- cancer clusters
- radon
- air pollution
Dr. Reed Morrison
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Communicable disease control and prevention
- Northern and rural health
Dr. Christine Navarro
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Enteric diseases
- Immunization
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Outbreak investigation
- Communicable disease surveillance
Dr. Samir Patel
Vice President and Chief, Microbiology and Laboratory Services
Research Focus:
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Hospital-associated infections
- Zoonotic diseases
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. Brendan Smith
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Social epidemiology
- Population health intervention research
- Interventions to prevent chronic disease and reduce health inequities
- Alcohol policy
- Public health systems
Dr. Sarah Wilson
Deputy Chief, Medical and Systems Support, Communicable Disease Control
Research Focus:
- Vaccine program evaluation
- Data linkage studies to enhance immunization coverage assessment
- Vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles
Dr. Vanessa Tran
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Molecular diagnostics
- Bloodborne viruses
- Molecular epidemiology
- Serology
Dr. Austin Zygmunt
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) including mpox
- Social determinants of health, marginalization, and health inequity
- 2SLGBTQ+ health
Updated
6 Oct 2025
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