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
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
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
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
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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