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Deshayne Fell

Deshayne Fell

Deshayne Fell is a Canadian perinatal epidemiologist based in Ottawa, Ontario. She is an associate professor in the University of Ottawa School of Epidemiology and Public Health, a scientist at the CHEO Research Institute, an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES),[1] and a researcher for BORN Ontario.[2]

Fell is a liaison representative for the Canadian Association for Immunization Research, Evaluation and Education (CAIRE) on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), responsible for developing recommendations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada.[3] Meanwhile, she also served on the Vaccine Safety Working Group of the Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group (VSRG).[4]

She has been a member of two World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Groups related to maternal immunization.[5] She is a faculty member of the Society for Epidemic Research (SER).[6]

History

Fell presented at the World Vaccine Congress Washington 2022 on the subject of maternal immunity and vaccines.[7]

Activities

Fell's research uses large, linked population databases and registries to improve our understanding of factors affecting maternal and infant population health. Her specific focus includes infection and immunization during pregnancy and their relationship with birth outcomes and longer-term pediatric health outcomes, including safety and effectiveness of maternal immunization.

She has conducted research with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including as a Principal Investigator.[8][9] At least one of these studies was also funded and/or coordinated by the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and the Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[10]

Publications

  1. Deshayne Fell. CHEO Research Institute. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.04.22-004635/https://www.cheoresearch.ca/research/find-a-researcher/dr-deshayne-fell/ ↩︎

  2. BORN Ontario. CHEO Research Institute. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221019022045/https://www.cheoresearch.ca/research/areas/born-ontario/ ↩︎

  3. National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation. (2020, December 18). Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218222110/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/naci-membership-representation.html ↩︎

  4. Vaccine surveillance Reference group (VSRG). COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. Retrieved April 28, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.04.28-205527/https://www.covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/vaccine-surveillance-reference-group-vsrg/ ↩︎

  5. Methodological Challenges of Studying Perinatal Outcomes Following Immunization During Pregnancy: A Case Study on Influenza. (2019). McGill University. https://web.archive.org/web/20220422010132/https://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/files/epi-biostat-occh/dfell-announcement-25mar19.pdf ↩︎

  6. Deshayne Fell. Society for Epidemiologic Research. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220422011148/https://epiresearch.org/annual-meeting/2022-meeting/ser-faculty/deshayne-fell/ ↩︎

  7. Agenda | Vaccine Congress USA. (2022, April 21). World Vaccine Congress Washington 2022. http://archive.today/2022.04.22-012137/https://www.terrapinn.com/Conference/world-vaccine-congress-washington/agenda.stm ↩︎

  8. Ganton, J. (2018, January 19). Newborn sepsis: Could routinely collected blood spots help with early detection? Ontario Hospital Research Institute. https://web.archive.org/web/20220422014854/http://www.ohri.ca/newsroom/story/view/799?l=en ↩︎

  9. Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. (2015, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.03.20-063300/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/11/opp1141535 ↩︎

  10. Fell, D. B., Johnson, J., Mor, Z., Katz, M. A., Skidmore, B., Neuzil, K. M., Ortiz, J. R., & Bhat, N. (2017). Incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza disease among infants under 6 months of age: a systematic review. BMJ open, 7(9), e016526. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016526 ↩︎