Partners

Finn is a TB modeller at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with experience in modelling infectious diseases in a range of settings. He is the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (TB MAC) Secretariat Epidemiologist, involved in developing guidance and resources for country-level TB modelling to support decision-making, and facilitating coordination between international…

Dr. Lawrence Goodridge is a Canada Research Chair in Foodborne Pathogen Dynamics and the Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety. He is a food microbiologist whose research focuses on the detection, characterization, and control of foodborne pathogens to improve food safety and public health. His work integrates molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, and…

Nicole Forbes, PhD, is a Senior Scientific Project Coordinator, at the NACI Secretariat. She has worked at PHAC providing technical leadership on vaccine guidance since 2021. Nicole’s academic background is in virology, and researched adaptive mutations in Influenza A virus during her doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa. Nicole then conducted postdoctoral training at…

Dr. Marina Salvadori, MD, FRCPC, is a pediatrician and infectious diseases specialist. She is very interested in vaccines, immunization education and advocacy. She is a Senior Medical Advisor at PHAC, and a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGill.

Dr. Jason Kindrachuk is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) and an associate professor, Max Rady College of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and infectious diseases University of Manitoba. Dr. Kindrachuk’ s research focuses on the circulation, transmission and pathogenesis of emerging viruses that pose the greatest threat to global human and animal health. These include ebolaviruses, coronaviruses…

Dr. Willy Dunbar, MD-PhD, is a public health physician-scientist and knowledge mobilization specialist with expertise in infectious diseases, climate and health, One Health, health systems, and global public health. He serves as Knowledge Translation Project Lead and Manager of the CIHR Knowledge Mobilization Hub at NCCID. His interdisciplinary work spans research, programme leadership, knowledge mobilization,…

Dr. Catalina Alfonso-Parra has been a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical – CES University since 2015. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Texas A&M University and completed postdoctoral research at Cornell University, first in developmental biology with Dr. Natasza Kurpios and later in vector biology with Dr. Laura Harrington….

Dr. Julie Sutherland is a White settler committed to a lifelong journey of cultural humility, learning, and practicing respectful engagement with Indigenous communities. A recipient of the Ian Fairclough Teaching Price (University of British Columbia) and the Honoring the Spirit of Reconciliation Award (Public Health Agency of Canada), Dr. Sutherland has received awards for teaching…

Dr. Carl Boodman, MD, FRCPC, DTM&H, CTropMed is a Canadian infectious diseases physician, medical microbiologist, and PhD candidate whose research focuses on culture-negative bacterial infections as neglected diseases at the intersection of poverty, homelessness, migration, and public health. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Unit of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Institute of Tropical…

Mark Gilbert is a public health physician at the BC Centre for Disease Control and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population & Public Health, and leads the Digital & Sexual Health Initiative. Mark is the medical and research lead for GetCheckedOnline, BC’s digital testing service for STBBI, and holds an…