Gregory Hammond
Board of Directors
Management Team
PREVENT PanProvincial Vaccine Enterprise Inc
Brazil
Biography
Dr. Hammond has served in many organizations, including as president of the Canadian Infectious Diseases Society (CIDS now AMMI), and president of the Canadian Association of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID). He has been a member of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI). He was co-chair of the National Immunization Strategy (NIS) and co-chair of the Canadian Immunization Committee (CIC). He has consulted on public health and immunization issues for Manitoba Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, Sanofi Pasteur Ltd. and the World Health Organization. He is the Director of the Alliance Coordinating Office of the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (CHVI). He is Executive Director of the Manitoba Medical Service Foundation, which provides start up grants and educational grants to new investigators in Manitoba. Dr. Hammond is a graduate of McGill University (BSc and MD,CM). His post graduate medical training was in internal medicine (U of Alberta and U of Toronto) and infectious diseases (U of Manitoba) and microbiology (Centres for Disease Control, Atlanta). He has been a member of PREVENT since its inception in 2008 and is chair of the Nominations Committee.
Research Interest
Immunology