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Theresa Gyorkos, PhD

Academic title(s): 

Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine

Theresa Gyorkos, PhD
Contact Information
Address: 

5252 de Maisonneuve, 3D.55
Montréal, QCÌý H4A 3S9

Email address: 
theresa.gyorkos [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-934-1934 ext. 44721
Area(s): 
Infectious Diseases
Current research: 

My research focuses on parasite epidemiology and the prevention and control of parasitic disease worldwide. I have been a researcher in global health and infectious (parasite) disease epidemiology for over 25 years and have conducted population-based primary epidemiological field research both in Canada and abroad. My Canadian-based research has focused primarily on infections in child and educator populations in the daycare setting and imported and endemic parasite infections in at-risk populations (eg. immigrants, travelers). My global health research activities centre mainly on:

  1. deworming control programs in high risk population subgroups (eg. preschool-age children, school-age children and pregnant women);
  2. interdisciplinary approaches to the prevention and control of endemic infectious and parasitic diseases;
  3. the interrelationship between infection and (mal)nutrition in child populations and women of reproductive age (including pregnant women) and,
  4. reducing health inequities in communities of extreme poverty in endemic areas of low-and-middle-income countries.

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