A Conversation on Vaccines

Infectious Info

In this week's episode, Katherine Lu and Marian Saab interviews Dr. Shelly Bolotin. Dr. Shelly Bolotin is the Director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (CVPD), and an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, at the University of Toronto. She is also a scientist at Public Health Ontario.

Dr. Bolotin received a BSc in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University, an MSc in virology and PhD in microbiology at the University of Toronto, and an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In addition to working in Academia, Dr. Bolotin has worked in public health at the provincial and national levels, focusing on surveillance and public health emergency response.

Dr. Bolotin’s research program utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to evaluate whether our population is adequately protected from vaccine-preventable diseases. Applying a public health lens, her studies combine epidemiological and microbiological methods to answer questions related to population immunity and vaccine effectiveness, and determine our future risk for outbreaks or epidemics.

Find out more about CVPD by joining their mailing list for information about events: https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/institutes/centre-for-vaccine-preventable-diseases/