Jeff Kwong

Research Synopsis

Jeff Kwong is an epidemiologist, a specialist in public health and preventive medicine, and a family physician. He is the Program Leader of the Populations and Public Health Program at ICES (a research institute that houses a large array of linkable health-related databases), a Scientist at Public Health Ontario, a Family Physician at Toronto Western Family Health Team, a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and the Associate Director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases. As a Clinician-Scientist, he practises family medicine one day per week and devotes the rest of his time to research and teaching at the interface between primary care and public health. His research interests include infectious diseases and vaccine epidemiologic research using large linkable databases.