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. Andrea Boggild
Medical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- tropical medicine
- vaccine-preventable disease control
- parasitology
- global health
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. Brent Moloughney
Medical Director
Areas of expertise:
- chronic disease prevention
- health promotion
Dr. Brian Schwartz
Vice-President
Areas of expertise:
- public health
- core competencies
- emergency preparedness and response
- intersectoral health emergency management
- emergency medical services
Dr. Bryna Warshawsky
Medical Director
Areas of expertise:
- communicable disease prevention and control
- outbreak management
- vaccine-preventable diseases
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. Frances Jamieson
Medical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- tuberculosis
- non-tuberculous mycobacteria
- molecular epidemiology and public health application of next generation sequencing
- Bordetella pertussis
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Haemophilus influenzae
Dr. Gary Garber
Chief, Infection Prevention and Control
Areas of expertise:
- infectious diseases
- infection prevention and control
- HIV
- public health
- viral hepatitis
- sexually transmitted infection (Trichomonas vaginalis)
Dr. Heather Manson
Chief, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
Areas of expertise:
- health promotion and chronic disease and injury prevention
- health and social burden of chronic diseases
- health equity
- knowledge synthesis, exchange and dissemination
- evidence-informed public health policy
- evaluation of complex public health programs and systems
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. Jennie Johnstone
Physician
Areas of expertise:
- infectious disease
- infection prevention and control
- health care-associated infections
- immunosenescence
- epidemiology
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. John McLaughlin
Chief Science Officer and Senior Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- epidemiology
- public and population health
- environmental risk factors
- molecular epidemiology
- research integrity
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 Rosella
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- epidemiological methods
- applied biostatistics
- population-based risk tools to support public health planning
- diabetes and obesity
- public health policy
- premature mortality
- socioeconomic gradients in health
Dr. Lee Goneau
Clinical Microbiologist
Areas of expertise:
- molecular Epidemiology
- HIV
- viral Hepatitis
- measles
- mumps
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. Natasha Crowcroft
Chief, Applied Immunization Research and Evaluation
Areas of expertise:
- vaccination programs and vaccine-preventable diseases
- immunization
- vaccination coverage
- encephalitis
- surveillance
Dr. Nicholas Brandon
Public Health Physician
Areas of expertise:
- communicable disease control, prevention and outbreak management
- epidemiology and mixed methods research
- public health and medical education
- primary care medicine
- environment and health/one health
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. Peter Donnelly
President and Chief Executive Officer
Areas of expertise:
- public health
- violence reduction
- health system governance
- health policy
Dr. Ray Copes
Chief, Environmental and Occupational Health
Areas of expertise:
- exposure and risk assessment
- risk communication
- occupational and environmental medicine
- air pollution
- toxicity of metals
Dr. Roberto Melano
Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- antimicrobial resistance
- bacterial pathogens
- clinical microbiology
Dr. Samir Patel
Deputy Chief, Laboratory Research
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. Saravanamuttu Gnaneshan
Bioinformatics Scientist
Areas of expertise:
- bioinformatics
- computational biology
- public health informatics
- data science
- software engineering
Dr. Shelley Deeks
Chief, Communicable Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Response
Areas of expertise:
- communicable disease control and outbreak investigations
- vaccine safety
- epidemiology and program evaluation
- public health
- human papillomavirus vaccine
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, Medical Microbiology
Areas of expertise:
- sexually transmitted infections
- antimicrobial resistance
- molecular epidemiology
- food- and water-borne infections
- Clostridium difficile
Dr. Yasmin Khan
Consultant Physician
Areas of expertise:
- health system emergency managementÂ
- emergency medicine
- health systems research
- disaster epidemiology
- high-risk populations
Updated
12 April 2019
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