Manish Sadarangani
Director, Vaccine Evaluation Center, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia; Sauder Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Dr. Sadarangani is a pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist and director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center. He completed his DPhil with the Oxford Vaccine Group in the UK, developing novel meningococcal vaccines, and completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Vancouver in 2013 before returning to Oxford to work as a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician. He has worked in pediatrics throughout the world, including in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, North America and Europe. He is Co-Lead of Immunization Monitoring Program ACTive (Canada-wide surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases) and Chair of the Canadian Association for Immunization Research, Evaluation & Education.
His research links clinical trials with basic microbiology, immunology and epidemiology to address clinically relevant problems related to immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases. Specific research interests include bacterial vaccines, understanding vaccine-induced immunity, maternal immunization, antibiotic resistance and CNS infections. He is a member of multiple World Health Organization advisory groups, including Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization and Technical Advisory Group on AMR.
