Majury | Biomedical and Molecular Sciences | School of Medicine

Anna Majury PhD, DVM

Position(s)

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Anna.Majury@oahpp.ca

181 Barrie Street

613 417 3306

Faculty Bio

Dr. Anna Majury received her DVM from the University of Guelph and a MSc in Veterinary Immunology and Infectious Diseases, also from Guelph. Following this she practiced medicine for 2 years prior to moving to Queen's Univeristy as a CIHR Fellow where she completed her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology. She then trained for three years as a Clinical Microbiologist at the UHN and U of T, in Toronto, until accepting a position in Kingston working as a Public Health Microbiologist working for Public Health Ontario, overseeing the Eastern Ontario Region. She was Chair of the Ontario laboratory working group for pandemic planning since its inception and sits as an expert member on the national Pandemic Influenza Laboratory Preparedness Network under CPHLN. Dr. Majury also trained as a Federal Field Epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is also Co-Chair of the Canadian Drinking Water Working Group, and a member of the Water Food Safety Enterics Network, under CPHLN, and on the advisory council for the Water Research Center at Queen's University. She is currently an assistant professor within the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Queen's University and a proud member of Veterinarians Without Borders and Public Health Veterinary Outreach. Her interests and expertise are within the areas of respiratory viral infections, pandemic influenza, environmental microbiology, epidemiology, zoonotic diseases and public health.

Research Interests

Majury, Anna Laboratory

Dr. Majury is a full time practicing Clinical Microbiologist with Public Health Ontario. As such, the majority of her laboratory is dedicated to the diagnosis of infectious diseases, with some environmental microbiology services, and public health. Her research interests are focused in the area One Health, in the context of microbiology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases, and public health, with a special focus on animal, human and environmental (food and water) microbial interactions. Her main research goal is to provide the science and the tools to inform the practice of evidence based public health medicine. The research laboratory is primarily student focused, with both graduate and undergraduate students, who become integral and important members of the provincial public health community.

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