Faculty Member
Shaun Morris
- Email Address(es)
- shaun.morris(at)sickkids.ca
- Office Phone
- 416 813-7654 Ext. 306625
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Centre for Global Health
Clinical Public Health Division
Epidemiology Division - Position
- Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate Member
- Appointment Status
- Status Only
Research Interests
Newborn and child mortality
Tropical infectious diseases
Community based trials
Children’s travel medicine
Verbal autopsies
Primary Teaching Responsibilities
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Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
Professor
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Professional Summary & Appointments
Shaun Morris is a Clinician-Scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute. He is the Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto, with a cross appointment at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He completed his medical degree at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, and his Master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Morris completed his clinical training in pediatrics and infectious diseases at SickKids and further training in tropical medicine at the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Honours & Awards
2014-2016 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award, March of Dimes
2012 Sanofi Pasteur Award for Communicable Disease Epidemiology
2009-2011 Pediatric Scientist Development Program, Yale University
Current Research Projects
Dr. Morris’ current research interests include interventional and observational studies of childhood morbidity and mortality in South Asia and Africa and the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases and other globally important infectious diseases in Canada.
Representative Publications
Farrar DS, Drouin O, Moore-Hepburn C, Baerg K, Chan K, Cyr C, Donner EJ, Embree JE, Farrell C, Forgie S, Giroux R, Kang KT, King M, Laffin M, Luu TM, Orkin J, Ouldali N, Papenburg J, Pound CM, Price VE, Proulx-Gauthier JP, Purewal R, Sadarangani M, Salvadori MI, Thibeault R, Top KA, Viel-Theriault I, Kakkar F, Morris SK. Risk factors for severe COVID-19 in hospitalized children in Canada: A national prospective study from March 2020–May 2021;15(100337). https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.lana.2022.100337. PMID: 35936225.
Morris SK, Pell LG, Rahman MZ, Mahmud AA, Shi J, Ahmed T, Dimitris MC, Gubbay JB, Islam MM, Kashem T, Keya FK,
Mohsin M, Pullenayegum E, Science M, Shanta SS, Sumiya MK, Zlotkin S, Roth DE. Effects of Maternal Vitamin D
Supplementation during Pregnancy and Lactation on Infant Acute Respiratory Infections: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial in Bangladesh. JPIDS 2021 10(9):901-909. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piab032. PMID: 34213544.
Groves H*, Piché-Renaud PP*, Peci A, Farrar D, Buckrell S, Bancej C, Sevenhuysen C, Campigotto A, Gubbay J, Morris SK. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and other seasonal respiratory virus circulation in Canada: A population-based study. Lancet Regional Health Americas 2021. doi:10.1016/j.lana.2021.100015. PMID: 34386788.
Pell LG, Turab A; Bassani DG; Shi J; Soofi S; Hussain M; Ariff S; Bhutta ZA; Morris SK. Effectiveness of community
distribution of an integrated newborn care kit to families for improving neonatal outcomes in rural Pakistan.
BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001393. Doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001393. PMID: 31179036.