Isha Berry

Dr. Isha Berry, PhD is a Canadian epidemiologist based in Toronto, Ontario.

Berry was a visiting doctoral and research fellow at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) in Bangladesh from March to December 2019.¹⁾ 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 Center for Health Security.²⁾

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.³⁾ Her professors included David Fisman, Amy Greer, Shaun Morris, and Punam Mangtani. A collaborator of Berry's was Mahbubur Rahman.

Berry is a member of the secretariat for the Modelling Consensus Table on the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.⁴⁾

Berry co-founded the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group with Jean-Paul Soucy.^{5) 6)}

Berry's research centers around the One Health framework, a globalist ideology that views animal, human and environmental health as a connected entity in an infectious diseases context.⁷⁾

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.⁸⁾

Another influenza publication - co-authored by David Fisman, Jeff Kwong, Allison McGeer, and Ashleigh Tuite - was funded by the Canadian Immunization Research Network.⁹⁾