Biography:

 

Dr. Sadarangani completed his undergraduate medical training and pediatric residency in Cambridge, Oxford and London in the UK. He then completed his DPhil with the Oxford Vaccine Group in the UK, developing novel vaccine candidates for protection against capsular group B meningococcal disease, and 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.

Dr. Sadarangani is co-principal investigator of the Immunization Monitoring Program ACTive Network, which undertakes surveillance of vaccine preventable infections and adverse events following immunization in tertiary pediatric hospitals across Canada. He is chair of the Canadian Association for Immunization Research, Evaluation and Education, which facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration and networking involving all relevant stakeholders relevant to immunization in Canada. He is a principal investigator of the Canadian Immunization Research Network.