Our Researchers
Our multidisciplinary research community combines diverse expertise, working collaboratively with partners across sectors and jurisdictions.
Meet Our Researchers
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Dr. Angela Ma
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Mycobacteriology
- Molecular epidemiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
Dr. Anna Majury
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- One Health
- Environmental microbiology
- Private well water
- Infectious diseases epidemiology
- Zoonotic diseases
- Food and waterborne pathogens
- Veterinary infectious diseases
Dr. Antoine Corbeil
Medical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Enteric Diseases
- Global Health
- Parasitology
- Quality
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
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. Christine Navarro
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Enteric diseases
- Immunization
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Outbreak investigation
- Communicable disease surveillance
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. Hong Chen
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Environmental epidemiology
- Accountability research causal inference
- Environmental exposure assessment
Dr. Jeff Kwong
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Epidemiology
- Vaccine effectiveness
- Vaccine safety
- Respiratory viruses
- Public health
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
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. Karl Kabasele
Physician Lead
Research Focus:
- Health communication
- Smoking cessation
- Medical education
- Public health education through broadcast media
- Frontline public health management
Dr. Kevin Brown
Senior Scientist
Research Focus:
- Epidemiology and biostatistics
- Public health interventions
- Antimicrobial resistance and C. difficile
- Covid-19 and respiratory infections
Dr. Kevin Schwartz
Physician
Research Focus:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Audit and feedback
- Administrative data
- Epidemiology
- Vaccines
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. Maan Hasso
Medical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular diagnostic in microbiology
- Emerging pathogens
- Antimicrobial resistance testing
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Quality in laboratory medicine
Dr. Michelle Science
IPAC Physician
Research Focus:
- Infectious Disease
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Pediatric
- Vaccines
- Epidemiology
Dr. Nick Daneman
Clinician Scientist
Research Focus:
- Infectious diseases
- Antimicrobial stewardship and resistance
- Health-care associated infections
- Critical care infections
- Bacteremia
- C. difficile
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. Reed Morrison
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Communicable disease control and prevention
- Northern and rural health
Dr. Richard Mather
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Communicable disease control and prevention, with a focus on vector-borne diseases, zoonotic diseases and influenza
- Infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology
- Outbreak management
Dr. Samir Patel
Vice President and Chief, Microbiology and Laboratory Services
Research Focus:
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Hospital-associated infections
- Zoonotic diseases
Dr. Sarah Buchan
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Immunization
- Vaccine-preventable diseases
- Epidemiology
- Administrative data
Dr. Sarah Wilson
Public Health Physician
Research Focus:
- Vaccine program evaluation
- Data linkage studies to enhance immunization coverage assessment
- Vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles
Dr. Shawn Clark
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
- Arthropod-borne and zoonotic viruses
Dr. Shelly Bolotin
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Vaccine-preventable diseases
- Population immunity
- Sero-epidemiology
- Microbiology
Dr. Sonica Singhal
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Oral health
- Access to healthcare
- Tobacco research
- Program planning and evaluation
- Public health policy
Dr. Tiffany Fitzpatrick
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Epidemiology of infectious diseases
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
- Epidemiological and mathematical modeling methods
- Health equity
- Health administrative data and data linkage
Dr. Tom Braukmann
Scientist
Research Focus:
- Genomics
- Molecular Evolution
- Bioinformatics
- Phylogenetics
Dr. Tony Mazzulli
Medical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Infectious diseases
- Medical microbiology
- Diagnostic and clinical virology
Dr. Vanessa Tran
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Focus:
- Molecular microbiology
- Molecular diagnostics
- Bloodborne viruses
- Molecular epidemiology
- Serology
Dr. Vincent Spilchuk
Physician, Occupational Medicine Consultant
Research Focus:
- Heavy metals toxicology
- Occupational disease
- Environmental disease
- Workplace health and safety
- Medical education
Dr. Venkata R. Duvvuri
Scientist, Machine Learning
Research Focus:
- Public health microbiology
- Genomic epidemiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Data science and machine learning
- Infectious disease modelling
- Phylodynamics and phylogeography
Dr. Yasmin Khan
Physician
Research Focus:
- Public health emergency preparedness
- Health system emergency management
- Emergency medicine
- Health systems research
- High-risk populations
Updated
15 May 2025
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