====== Isha Berry ====== {{ ::cihr_berry_isha-oeiz0ce6q3x5f9yq8kqc3ege5m201fiqcqe9t0s6eq.jpeg?200|}} Dr. **Isha Berry**, PhD is a Canadian epidemiologist based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]]. ===== Education ===== ==== Training and Fellowships ==== Berry was a visiting doctoral and research fellow at the [[Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research]] (IEDCR) in [[Bangladesh]] from March to December 2019.((Berry, I. (2022, May 6). //Research Interests.// Google Cache; Isha Berry. https://archive.ph/RD6Fn)) She worked in collaboration with the [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] (FAO). From March 2020 to November 2021, Berry participated in the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship program at the [[johns_hopkins_university:Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security]].((Alexopulos, N. //Class of 2021 from the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship.// Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://archive.ph/AzQyu)) ==== University of Toronto ==== Berry completed her PhD at the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]] in 2022 with a dissertation on avian [[influenza]] in [[Bangladesh]].((Isha Berry [@ishaberry2]. (2022, March 24). //Excited to be a newly minted Dr Isha Berry! Thank you to my committee ( @DFisman @AmyGreerKalisz Shuan Morris & Punam Mangtani) collaborators ( @MahbuburDr ), and the many other that supported me on this journey @UofT_dlsph ! It has been a real privilege completing this PhD! [Tweet].// Twitter. https://archive.ph/yb13j)) Her professors included [[David Fisman]], [[Amy Greer]], [[Shaun Morris]], and [[Punam Mangtani]]. A collaborator of Berry's was [[Mahbubur Rahman]]. ===== Career and Affiliations ===== ==== Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change Collaborative ==== Berry worked as a research assistant for the [[Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change]] (PHESC) Collaborative in Fall 2019.((//U of T leading a new training program to strengthen Ontario’s public health workforce.// (2018, October 9). Dalla Lana School of Public Health. https://web.archive.org/web/20220129040834/https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/2018/10/09/u-of-t-leading-a-new-training-program-to-strengthen-ontarios-public-health-workforce/)) ==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ==== Berry is a member of the secretariat for the Modelling Consensus Table on the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((//Our Partners.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143427/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/our-partners/)) ==== COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group ==== Berry co-founded the [[COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group]] in March 2020 with [[Jean-Paul Soucy]].((Berry, I., & Soucy, J.-P. (2020, August 7). //Advanced Methods Webinar - COVID-19 Canada Open Data and Visualization with R Shiny.// Wayback Machine; PopulationData BC. https://web.archive.org/web/20200807041227/https://www.popdata.bc.ca/events/etu/Advanced_Methods_COVID-19_CODVR_Shiny_Apr28_2020)) ((Berry, I. (2022, May 6). //Research Interests.// Google Cache; Isha Berry. https://archive.ph/RD6Fn)) ((//About Us.// COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220426043132/https://opencovid.ca/about/)) The project is funded by the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]], and conducts digital surveillance of [[COVID-19]] cases in [[Canada]] to curate a publicly available line list and public-facing data dashboard.((Berry, I. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143613/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Declaration-of-Interest_Modelling-Consensus-Table_Isha-Berry_20211004-1.pdf)) ==== Canadian Association for Global Health ==== Berry is affiliated with the [[Canadian Association for Global Health]] (CAGH).((//Isha Berry.// Canadian Association for Global Health. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://archive.ph/ZF0kG)) ===== Research ===== Berry's research centers around the [[One Health]] framework, a [[globalism|globalist]] ideology that views animal, human and environmental health as a connected entity in an [[infectious diseases]] context.((Berry, I. (2022, May 6). //Research Interests.// Google Cache; Isha Berry. https://archive.ph/RD6Fn)) ==== Funding ==== Berry published research on avian [[influenza]] funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (jointly administered by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]], [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada]], and [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]]), [[International Development Research Centre]], and the [[National Geographic Society]].((Berry, I., Rahman, M., Flora, M. S., Greer, A. L., Morris, S. K., Khan, I. A., Sarkar, S., Naureen, T., Fisman, D. N., & Mangtani, P. (2021). //Frequency and patterns of exposure to live poultry and the potential risk of avian influenza transmission to humans in urban Bangladesh.// Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01327-x)) Another influenza publication - co-authored by [[David Fisman]], [[Jeff Kwong]], [[Allison McGeer]], and [[Ashleigh Tuite]] - was funded by the [[Canadian Immunization Research Network]].((Berry, I., Tuite, A. R., Salomon, A., Drews, S., Harris, A. D., Hatchette, T., Johnson, C., Kwong, J., Lojo, J., McGeer, A., Mermel, L., Ng, V., & Fisman, D. N. (2020). //Association of Influenza Activity and Environmental Conditions With the Risk of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease.// JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2010167. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10167)) ===== Media ===== {{::your_morn.jpeg?200 |}} * https://web.archive.org/web/20220511025421/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fishaberry.com%2Fengagement%2F ===== External links ===== * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/isha-berry/|White Rose Wiki]]