Joanne Langley, MD, MSc

Division Head, Infectious Diseases, IWK Health Care Centre; Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

Joanne Langley, MD, MSc
Division Head, Infectious Diseases, IWK Health Care Centre; Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine Dr. Langley is a pediatric infectious disease physician based at the IWK Health Centre and the Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV) at Dalhousie University. She is the Associate Director for Vaccine Evaluation Group at CCfV, and works with collaborators in academia, public health, industry, and non-governmental organizations to conduct phase 1 through 4 trials. She holds the CIHR-GSK Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology at Dalhousie University. She is an active investigator in the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) and is the lead investigator for its Clinical Trials Network (CTN). Dr. Langley's work also focusses on vaccine policy and evidence-based decision making in immunization programs. She is a member of the COVID-19 Science Expert Panel for 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), and serves as an advisor on several immunization decision-making expert groups. More information is available on the Dalhousie University website.