Professor Marina Salvadori

Professor Marina Salvadori got her medical degree at Queen’s University in 1991. She did her residency in pediatrics at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, then trained in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She was part of the team that provided clinical care, and then long term follow up in the Walkerton Water Crisis. She spent 2000–2020 at the Children’s Hospital in London as the Division Head for Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is very interested in vaccine preventable diseases, immunization education and awareness. She has advocated locally, provincially and nationally for publicly funded immunizations for children. At the end of January 2020, she joined the Public Health Agency of Canada as the Clinical Lead for COVID-19.