Tom Wong

Dr. Thomas Wong MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC is a Canadian infectious diseases and public health specialist based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Wong is trained in family medicine, internal medicine, infectious diseases and public health at McGill University, Harvard University and Columbia University.

Wong is a partner at the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID).¹⁾

Wong is an Assistant Professor in epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.²⁾

Wong is an adjunct professor at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.³⁾

Wong is the Chief Medical Officer of Public Health and the Chief Science Officer at the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Indigenous Services Canada.⁴⁾ In this role, he served as a liaison representative on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), responsible for approving COVID-19 vaccines in Canada.⁵⁾

Wong's research interests include communicable diseases, HIV, healthcare-associated infections, homeless populations, incarcerated populations, ethics, antimicrobial resistance, social media, electronic medical records, and implementation research.

Wong has received many grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

He received an “independent medical grant” from Pfizer for HIV research.⁶⁾

• https://www.vicnews.com/news/high-vaccination-rates-decreasing-covid-19-cases-in-indigenous-communities/
• https://www.fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/chief-medical-officer-of-the-fnha-to-join-indigenous-services-canada-to-support-nation-wide-covid-19-response