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DR. MELISSA ANDREW, DR. KARINA TOP, DR. EVE DUBÉ, NETWORK
NETWORK CO-LEAD, NETWORK LEAD, SPECIAL LEAD, SOCIAL SCIENCES
SERIOUS OUTCOMES IMMUNIZATION CLINICS AND HUMANITIES
SURVEILLANCE NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK

Dr. Melissa Andrew is Associate Dr. Karina Top is an Assistant Dr. Eve Dubé is a member of the
Professor of Medicine and consul- Professor of Pediatrics and Scientifi c Group on Immunization
tant in Geriatric Medicine at Dal- Community Health & Epidemiology at the Québec National Institute
housie University in Halifax, Nova at Dalhousie University and of Public Health, a researcher at
Scotia, Canada. She completed her Investigator at the Canadian Center the Research Center of the CHU-
MD as well as residency training for Vaccinology. Her primary Québec, and an adjoint professor in
in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics research focus is vaccine safety, the Social and Preventive Medicine
at Dalhousie University. She did clinical management of patients Department and Anthropology
a Masters of Public Health at the who have experienced AEFI, and Department of Université Laval.
London School of Hygiene and vaccine safety and effectiveness in Her research focuses on the
Tropical Medicine on a Common- immunocompromised patients. socio-cultural fi eld surrounding
wealth Scholarship then returned to immunization and vaccine
Dalhousie to complete her Interdis- hesitancy.
ciplinary PhD. She is an Associate
Member of the Canadian Centre
for Vaccinology. As part of the
Canadian Immunization Research
Network, she is co-Principal Inves-
tigator of the Serious Outcomes
Surveillance (SOS) Network, where
she studies how frailty impacts both
vaccine effectiveness and clinical
outcomes of infl uenza and pneumo-
coccal infections in older people.

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