Samira Mubareka

Open to recruiting graduate students (PhD)

Samira completed her MD at Dalhousie University in 1999 and Internal Medicine training in 2002 at McGill University in Canada. She specialized in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the University of Manitoba (2005).

She went on to a research fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, in the laboratory of Dr Peter Palese, Department of Microbiology (2009). Samira focused on the development of a novel animal model for the transmission of influenza virus, developing an interest around the aerobiology of virus transmission, which remains a focus of her work.

Samira is currently a Scientist, Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is also Associate Professor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.         

Research Synopsis

Since completing her research fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2009, Dr. Mubareka has continued to study themes of viral transmission and spread. In 2024 she was awarded a CIHR-PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Pandemic and Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery, with a focus on One Health.

In close collaboration with animal health colleagues, over the past 3 - 4 years Dr. Mubareka has focused on influenza virus and coronaviruses of animal origin  through the Emerging Wildlife Pathogens Initiative, or Wild EPI.

Appointments

Scientist, Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Clinician-Scientist, Biological Sciences, Integrated Community Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute

Microbiologist, Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Infectious Diseases Consultant, Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

CIHR-PHAC Applied Public Health Chair in Pandemic and Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery, with a focus on One Health.