Isha Berry
Isha Berry is a Canadian epidemiologist based in Toronto, Ontario. She is affiliated with the Canadian Association for Global Health (CAGH).[1]
History
Berry was a visiting doctoral and research fellow at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) in Bangladesh from March to December 2019.[2] She worked in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Berry worked as a research assistant for the Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change (PHESC) Collaborative in Fall 2019.[3]
Berry co-founded the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group in March 2020 with Jean-Paul Soucy.[2:1][4][5] The project is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and conducts digital surveillance of COVID-19 cases in Canada to curate a publicly available line list and public-facing data dashboard.[6]
From March 2020 to November 2021, Berry participated in the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.[7] Following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Berry served as a member of the secretariat for the Modelling Consensus Table on the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.[8]
Berry completed her PhD at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto in 2022 with a dissertation on avian influenza in Bangladesh.[9] Her professors included David Fisman, Amy Greer, Shaun Morris, and Punam Mangtani. A collaborator of Berry's was Mahbubur Rahman.
From July 2022-June 2024, Berry served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In July 2024, she joined the CDC Foundation as an epidemiologist.[10]
Research
Berry's research centers around the One Health framework, an ideology that views animal, human and environmental health as a connected entity in an infectious diseases context.[2:2]
Funding
Berry has published research on avian influenza funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (jointly administered by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the National Geographic Society.[11]
Another influenza publication - co-authored by David Fisman, Jeff Kwong, Allison McGeer, and Ashleigh Tuite - was funded by the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN).[12]
External links
Isha Berry. Canadian Association for Global Health. Retrieved June 24, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240624045145/https://cagh-acsm.org/en/isha-berry ↩︎
Berry, I. (2022, May 6). Research Interests. Google Cache; Isha Berry. http://archive.vn/2022.05.10-211355/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://ishaberry.com/research/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
U of T leading a new training program to strengthen Ontario’s public health workforce. (2018, October 9). Dalla Lana School of Public Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20220129040834/https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/2018/10/09/u-of-t-leading-a-new-training-program-to-strengthen-ontarios-public-health-workforce/ ↩︎
Berry, I., & Soucy, J.-P. (2020, August 7). Advanced Methods Webinar - COVID-19 Canada Open Data and Visualization with R Shiny. PopulationData BC. https://web.archive.org/web/20200807041227/https://www.popdata.bc.ca/events/etu/Advanced_Methods_COVID-19_CODVR_Shiny_Apr28_2020 ↩︎
About Us. COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220426043132/https://opencovid.ca/about/ ↩︎
Berry, I. (2021). Declaration of Interest. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143613/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Declaration-of-Interest_Modelling-Consensus-Table_Isha-Berry_20211004-1.pdf ↩︎
Alexopulos, N. Class of 2021 from the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from http://archive.vn/2022.05.10-204954/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/emergingbioleaders/class-of-2021.html ↩︎
Our Partners. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143427/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/our-partners/ ↩︎
Isha Berry [@ishaberry2]. (2022, March 24). Excited to be a newly minted Dr Isha Berry! Thank you to my committee ( @DFisman @AmyGreerKalisz Shuan Morris & Punam Mangtani) collaborators ( @MahbuburDr ), and the many other that supported me on this journey @UofT_dlsph ! It has been a real privilege completing this PhD! [Tweet]. Twitter. http://archive.vn/2022.05.10-052132/https://twitter.com/ishaberry2/status/1507070746203504640 ↩︎
Isha Berry. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 29, 2025, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishaberry/ ↩︎
Berry, I., Rahman, M., Flora, M. S., Greer, A. L., Morris, S. K., Khan, I. A., Sarkar, S., Naureen, T., Fisman, D. N., & Mangtani, P. (2021). Frequency and patterns of exposure to live poultry and the potential risk of avian influenza transmission to humans in urban Bangladesh. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01327-x ↩︎
Berry, I., Tuite, A. R., Salomon, A., Drews, S., Harris, A. D., Hatchette, T., Johnson, C., Kwong, J., Lojo, J., McGeer, A., Mermel, L., Ng, V., & Fisman, D. N. (2020). Association of Influenza Activity and Environmental Conditions With the Risk of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2010167. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10167 ↩︎