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The FitzGerald Seminar Series on Communicable Disease Control, presented by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, provides a forum for collaboration between professionals from public health, academia, clinical practice and industry sharing an interest in the latest scientific evidence pertaining to infectious disease prevention and control. It is named in honour of Dr. J.G. FitzGerald, a pioneering Canadian vaccinologist and founding Dean of the University of Toronto School of Hygiene, which was the forerunner of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The Series is an accredited continuing medical education event (accreditation by the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto), and is generously supported by educational funds from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc., Merck Canada Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Inc.

Establishing the sub-national burden of mortality from measles and rotavirus in India

Presenter: Dr. Shaun Morris, Clinician-Scientist, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital for Sick Children

March 20, 2014, Faculty Club, University of Toronto


An overview of PHAC/CIHR Influenza Research Network (PCIRN) vaccine coverage and program delivery and evaluation research

Presenter: Dr. Jeff Kwong, Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Public Health Ontario

January 22, 2014, Hart House, University of Toronto


Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Effectiveness: Lessons from the California Experience

Presenter: Dr. Nicola Klein, Co-Director of Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center

December 6, 2013, Hart House, University of Toronto


Group B Strep: Do we need a vaccine? Are we going to get one?

Presenter: Dr. Scott Halperin, Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology at Dalhousie University and the Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax

May 29, 2013, Hart House, University of Toronto


Pseudoscience in Medicine

Presenter: Dr. Joe Schwarcz, Director of McGill University’s “Office for Science and Society”

May 8, 2013, Faculty Club, University of Toronto


Serotype Coexistence and Vaccine-induced Replacement in Streptococcus Pneumoniae

Presenter: Dr. Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) at the Harvard School of Public Health

November 12, 2012, Faculty Club, University of Toronto


Compulsory Influenza Vaccination for Healthcare Workers – Is it just a Shot in the Dark?

Presenter: Dr. Allison McGeer, Microbiologist & Infectious Disease Consultant, Director of Infection Control, Director of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Program, Mount Sinai Hospital

October 24, 2012, Hart House, University of Toronto


Grappling with a 13-year epidemic in New Zealand: lessons from a tailor-made Meningococcal B vaccine

Presenter: Professor Terry Nolan, Professor and Head of the Melbourne School of Population Health

September 21, 2012, Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto


The Value of Male HPV Vaccination

Presenters:

  • Dr. Jane J. Kim, Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management. Harvard School of Public Health
  • Dr. Irving E. Salit, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; Director, Immunodeficiency Clinic, Toronto General Hospital; Interim Head of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network
  • Dr. Lilian Yuan, Associate Medical Officer of Health, The Regional Municipality of York; Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • Dr. Vivien Brown, Family Physician; Vice President -Medical Affairs at Medisys Health Group

June 26, 2012, Hart House, University of Toronto


Hutterites and the Herd Effect

Presenter: Dr. Mark Loeb, Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University

May 23, 2012, Hart House, University of Toronto


Fearlessness & Innovation: Personalities, Connaught Laboratories & Vaccine Development in Canada, 1914-1972

Presenter: Dr. Christopher J. Rutty, Medical Historian, Consultant

February 28, 2012, Faculty Club, University of Toronto


Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Ontario: Disease Overview and Prevention

Presenters:

  • Dr. Ronald Gold, Professor of Pediatrics (Retired) and Former Head of Division of Infectious Disease, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Dr. Shelley Deeks, Medical Epidemiologist, Surveillance and Epidemiology, PHO
  • Dr. Rino Rappuoli, Global Head, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Research

November 28, 2011, MaRS Discovery District

Link: MaRS


Influenza Vaccination in Older Adults: An Epidemiological Viewpoint

Presenter: Dr. David N. Fisman, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

October 13, 2011, Hart House, University of Toronto