Our Researchers
Our researchers, which are made up of scientific and medical staff, work in diverse fields and disciplines, collaborating with partners across sectors and jurisdictions.
Meet Our Researchers
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Dr. Anna Majury
Clinical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- one health
- environmental microbiology
- pandemic influenza
- infectious diseases epidemiology
- zoonotic diseases
- food and waterborne pathogens
- veterinary infectious diseases
Dr. Brendan Smith
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- social epidemiology
- health equity
- diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
- population health intervention research
Dr. Brian Schwartz
Vice-President
Areas of expertise:
- public health
- core competencies
- emergency preparedness and response
- intersectoral health emergency management
- emergency medical services
Dr Christine Navarro
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- Immunization
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Outbreak Investigation
Dr. Erin Hobin
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- population health intervention research
- experimental and quasi-experimental studies
- Food, alcohol, and cannabis policy
- Health promotion and health equity
- Integrated knowledge translation
Dr. Hong Chen
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- environmental epidemiology
- environmental exposure assessment
- biostatistics
- environmental exposure assessment using geographic information systems (GIS)
Dr. Jeff Kwong
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- epidemiology
- vaccines
- influenza
- public health
- health services
Dr. Jessica Hopkins
Chief Health Protection and Emergency Preparedness Officer
Areas of expertise:
- public health
- communicable diseases
- surveillance and epidemiology
- public health policy
Dr. JinHee Kim
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- surveillance of environmental hazards and exposures
- food safety and risk
- primary care medicine
- land use planning policy
- environmental burden of disease
Dr. Jonathan Gubbay
Medical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- respiratory viruses
- gastrointestinal viruses
- arboviruses
- viral molecular epidemiology
Dr. Julianne Kus
Clinical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- molecular microbiology
- bacteriology
- mycology
- antimicrobial resistance mechanisms
- virulence mechanisms
Dr. Karl Kabasele
Physician Lead
Areas of expertise:
- health communication
- smoking cessation
- medical education
- public health education through broadcast media
- frontline public health management
Dr. Kevin Brown
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- epidemiology
- statistics
- hospital-acquired infection
- C. difficile
- health services research
Dr. Kevin Schwartz
Physician
Areas of expertise:
- antimicrobial stewardship
- administrative data
- epidemiology
- vaccines
Dr. Laura Bourns
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- communicable disease prevention and control
- outbreak management
- blood-borne infections, respiratory diseases
- infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology
Dr. Liane Macdonald
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- 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
Melissa Richard-Greenblatt
Clinical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- mycobacteriology
- point-of-care testing
- pre-analytics in microbiology
- clinical laboratory capacity building
- global health microbiology
Dr. Nick Daneman
Clinician Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- infectious diseases
- antimicrobial stewardship and resistance
- health-care associated infections
- critical care infections
- bacteremia
- C. difficile
Dr. Pamela Leece
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- substance use disorders, harm reduction and overdose prevention
- public health
- health services
- quality improvement and knowledge translation
- program evaluation
Dr. Richard Mather
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- communicable disease control and prevention
- infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology
- outbreak management
Dr. Roberto Melano
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- antimicrobial resistance
- bacterial pathogens
- clinical microbiology
Dr. Samir Patel
Chief, Microbiology and Laboratory Science
Areas of expertise:
- antimicrobial resistance
- hospital-associated infections
- zoonotic diseases
Dr. Sarah Buchan
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- immunization
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- epidemiology
- administrative data
Dr. Sarah Wilson
Medical Epidemiologist
Areas of expertise:
- immunization coverage assessment
- immunization program evaluation
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- outbreak investigation
Dr. Shelly Bolotin
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- population immunity
- sero-epidemiology
- microbiology
Dr. Sonica Singhal
Scientist, Oral Health
Areas of expertise:
- oral health
- access to healthcare
- tobacco research
- program planning and evaluation
- public health policy
Dr. Tony Mazzulli
Medical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- infectious diseases
- medical microbiology
- diagnostic and clinical virology
Dr. Vanessa Tran
Clinical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- molecular microbiology
- molecular diagnostics
- bloodborne viruses
- molecular epidemiology
- serology
Dr. Yasmin Khan
Consultant Physician
Areas of expertise:
- health system emergency managementÂ
- emergency medicine
- health systems research
- disaster epidemiology
- high-risk populations
Dr. Vincent Spilchuk
Physician, Occupational Medicine Consultant
Areas of expertise:
- heavy metals toxicology
- occupational disease
- environmental disease
- workplace health and safety
- general internal medicine
Dr. Venkata R. Duvvuri
Scientist, Machine Learning
Areas of expertise:
- data science and machine learning
- genomic epidemiology
- public health microbiology
- one health approach
- health administrative and Electronic Health Record (EHR) data
Updated
30 April 2022
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