Special note: This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited.

Speaker: Dr. Allison McGeer, Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Professor, Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Clinician Scientist, Sinai Health System

Title: Challenges in making progress in reducing the burden of pneumococcal disease in Canada

Bio:

Dr. Allison McGeer is a Professor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Clinician Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of the Sinai Health System in Toronto. Her research interests are in the prevention of healthcare associated infection, use of epidemiology to reduce the burden of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance in adults, and adult immunization.

Questions? Email us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca

About the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH:

With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, we are developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.

We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.