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Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group

The Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group (VSRG) is a working group of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.[1]

Organization

VSRG reports to the Public Health Agency of Canada, and works in collaboration with the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), as well as federal, provincial and territorial governments. It is supported by the secretariat of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, which is hosted at the McGill School of Population and Global Health.[1:1]

Members

Members of the VSRG are as follows:[1:2]

Name Position Affiliation
Caroline Quach-Thanh Co-chair University of Montreal, National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
Scott Halperin Co-chair IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)
Catherine Hankins Member McGill University
David Naylor Member University of Toronto
Timothy Evans Member McGill School of Population and Global Health
Mel Krajden Member University of British Columbia, BCCDC Public Health Laboratory
Shelley Deeks Member Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness, National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
Evan Adams Ex-officio member Indigenous Services Canada
Kim Elmslie Ex-officio member Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
Kelly Robinson Ex-officio member Marketed Health Products Directorate (MHPD)[2]
Karina Top Ex-officio member; Chair of the Vaccine Safety Working Group Dalhousie University, Canadian National Vaccine Safety Network (CANVAS), Brighton Collaboration
Jeff Kwong Ex-officio member; Chair of the Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto, Public Health Ontario
Julie Bettinger Vaccine Safety Working Group member -
Deshayne Fell Vaccine Safety Working Group member -
James Kellner Vaccine Safety Working Group member -
Monika Naus Vaccine Safety Working Group member British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
Sarah Wilson Vaccine Safety Working Group member -
Lisa Belzak Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Shelly Bolotin Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Nicholas Brousseau Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
Julie Laroche Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Shelly McNeil Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Gina Ogilvie Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Elia Palladino Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Manish Sadarangani Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -
Danuta Skowronski Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group member -

  1. Vaccine surveillance Reference group (VSRG). COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. Retrieved April 28, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.04.28-205527/https://www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/vaccine-surveillance-reference-group-vsrg/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Kelly Robinson. Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies. Retrieved July 4, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240704232913/https://www.cnodes.ca/member/kelly-robinson/ ↩︎