April 25, 2024 By Betty Zou This World Malaria Day, a University of Toronto PhD student is shedding light on a poorly understood phenomenon that could impact vaccination strategies for malaria and other infectious diseases. The phenomenon, called vaccine-driven...
In honour of Black History Month, we are pleased to feature a series of stories celebrating the contributions Black individuals have made to our understanding of infectious diseases and how to prevent and treat them. Each story is written by a member of EPIC’s Trainee...
In honour of Black History Month, we are pleased to feature a series of stories celebrating the contributions Black individuals have made to our understanding of infectious diseases and how to prevent and treat them. Each story is written by a member of EPIC’s Trainee...
(Photo credit: Harvard University Archives) In honour of Black History Month, we are pleased to feature a series of stories celebrating the contributions Black individuals have made to our understanding of infectious diseases and how to prevent and treat them. Each...
(Photo credit: Library of Congress) In honour of Black History Month, we are pleased to feature a series of stories celebrating the contributions Black individuals have made to our understanding of infectious diseases and how to prevent and treat them. Each story is...
December 7, 2023 By Betty Zou The Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium, along with partners bioMérieux Canada, the AMR – One Health Consortium and the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada (AMMI Canada), recently co-hosted the second...
Subha Dahal (left) and Alice Zhabokritsky December 1, 2023 By Betty Zou Over four decades after the start of the AIDS epidemic, researchers in the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium are reshaping approaches to target the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...
(Photo by Roberto Sorin on Unsplash) November 23, 2023 By Betty Zou Earlier this year, the federal government released its Pan-Canadian Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, which details federal, provincial and territorial commitments to address antimicrobial...
Leah Cowen (left) and Jennie Johnstone November 20, 2023 By Betty Zou We may not need to worry about the zombie fungus in the hit HBO television series The Last of Us but there is another real-life fungal pathogen that we should be paying close attention to. Candida...
As cold and flu season approaches, Canadians are facing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an increase in COVID-19 activity, and influenza — but also have new options to protect their health. To learn more, we spoke with Shelly Bolotin, director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Shaun Morris, a pediatric infectious disease physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Toronto’s Sinai Health.
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