- Location
- Online
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event
- Dates
- March 22, 2021 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Links
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.
This seminar is co-hosted by the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, at the School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University.
Speaker: Dr. Senjuti Saha, Scientist, Child Health Research Foundation
Title: Tackling Paediatric Infections in Low-Resource Settings
Bio:
Dr. Senjuti Saha is a Scientist at the Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh, working at the intersection of molecular biology and public health. After completing her PhD in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto in Canada, she moved back to Bangladesh to work in the front lines of public health. Currently, she focuses on pediatric preventable infectious diseases, with the goals of (1) using modern molecular technologies including on-site metagenomics to identify etiologies that evade standard laboratory testing, (2) establishing genomic surveillance to track and understand the molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance in endemic bacterial pathogens and (3) estimating the indirect impacts of vaccines on the overall health system of resource-constrained settings. Her work is grounded in advancing health and research equity in Bangladesh, and beyond. She is a member of the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and an Associate Editor of BMJ Global health.
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.
Questions? Email us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca