Dr. Joanne Langley
Investigator Profile
Roles & Positions
- Scientific Director, Vaccine Evaluation Group, Canadian Center for Vaccinology
- Faculty, Departments of Pediatrics and Community Health & Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine
- Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research – GlaxoSmithKline Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology, Dalhousie University
- Staff, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, IWK Health Centre
Research Interests
- Vaccines, vaccine preventable infectious diseases
- Child health, infections in children
- Evidence-based immunization policy
- Respiratory infections, communicable disease control
Biography
Joanne Langley is an active pediatric infectious disease physician at the IWK Health Centre and leads the Vaccine Evaluation Group at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology. She has a particular interest in prevention of respiratory infections such as Respiratory Syncytial Virus and influenza. Her work also focuses on vaccine policy and evidence-based decision making in immunization programs. Dr. Langley is a member of the COVID-19 Science Expert Panel, the Expert Group on Health Systems of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, and a former member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (Chair, 2007-2011). Dr. Langley currently leads the Canadian Immunization Research Network’s Clinical Trials Network (CTN).
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