
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. Erin Hobin
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- population health intervention research
- experimental and quasi-experimental studies
- policies and interventions that relate to diet and nutritionÂ
- alcohol labelling policy

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
Deputy Chief, Health Protection, Medical & System Support
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. 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

Dr. Michelle Murti
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- communicable diseases
- surveillance and epidemiology
- emergency preparedness

Dr. Nahuel Fittipaldi
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- infectious diseases
- human and zoonotic streptococci
- pathogen-host interactions
- genomic epidemiology

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
Deputy 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 Allen
Chief, Microbiology and Laboratory Science
Areas of expertise:
- sexually transmitted infections
- antimicrobial resistance
- molecular epidemiology
- food- and water-borne infections
- Clostridium difficile

Dr. Vanessa Tran
Clinical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- molecular microbiology
- molecular diagnostics
- bloodborne viruses
- molecular epidemiology
- serology

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. Yasmin Khan
Consultant Physician
Areas of expertise:
- health system emergency managementÂ
- emergency medicine
- health systems research
- disaster epidemiology
- high-risk populations
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