Samira Mubareka

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 from biological, ecological and epidemiological perspectives through the Emerging Wildlife Pathogens Initiative, or Wild EPI.

Education

• MD, 1999, Dalhousie University
• Internal Medicine, 2002, McGill University
• Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2006, University of Manitoba
• Research Fellowship, 2009, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Appointments & Affiliations

• 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,
• CIHR-PHAC Applied Public Health Chair,