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Academic experts available to provide context or comment on the following topic:

Measles outbreaks

Members of the media may directly contact:

Dr. Kumanan Wilson (English only)

Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, and Clinical Research Chair, Digital Health Innovation.

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Dr. Wilson’s research focuses on digital health, immunization, pandemic preparedness and public health policy and innovation. His research on immunization has explored social media’s impact on vaccine hesitancy, evaluation of vaccine safety using health services data and vaccine policy, including advocating for vaccine injury compensation. Other research interests include health ethics, law and policy.


 

Dr. Stacey Smith? (English only)

Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Medicine 

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Dr. Smith? develops mathematical models of infectious diseases in the areas of population epidemiology and within-host immunology, looking at intervention methods such as antiretroviral drugs, vaccines, quarantine and microbicides.