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CIRN | 2018 ANNUAL REPORT

DR. JEFF KWONG, NETWORK CO-LEAD, DR. NATASHA CROWCROFT,
PROVINCIAL COLLABORATIVE NETWORK NETWORK CO-LEAD, PROVINCIAL
COLLABORATIVE NETWORK
Dr. Jeff Kwong is a Senior Scientist at the Institute
for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), a Scientist Dr. Natasha Crowcroft is Chief of Applied
at Public Health Ontario, a Family Physician at the Immunization Research and Evaluation at
Toronto Western Family Health Team, and an Associate Public Health Ontario (PHO) and Professor at
Professor at the Department of Family & Community the Department of Laboratory Medicine and
Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at Pathobiology and the Dalla Lana School of Public
the University of Toronto. His research interests include Health, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Crowcroft
infectious diseases epidemiology and health services is widely published, and provides expertise to
research using linkable data, vaccination program the World Health Organization and Pan-American
evaluation, and assessing the burden of infectious Health Organization.
diseases.

DR. BRIAN WARD, NETWORK LEAD, DR. MARC BRISSON, NETWORK
REFERENCE LABORATORY NETWORK LEAD, MODELING AND ECONOMICS
RESEARCH NETWORK
Dr. Brian Ward is a Professor of Medicine and
Microbiology at McGill University, Co-Director of the Dr. Marc Brisson is a Professor at Université
McGill Vaccine Study Centre, Associate Director of Laval where he leads the Research Group in
the JD MacLean Center for Tropical Diseases and Mathematical Modeling and Health Economics
Medical Director of the National Reference Center of Infectious Diseases. His research aims at
for Parasitology. His research interests are vaccine developing mathematical models that predict
development, parasite diagnostics and global health. the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of
interventions against infectious diseases to help
policy decision-making.