Corinne Ong
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Occupational and Public Health
Toronto, Ontario
corinne.ong@torontomu.ca
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Corinne Ong's research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis and cyclosporiasis, which are emerging water and foodborne parasitic diseases. She has received funding from several agencies, including the Canadian Institute of Health Research (for a collaborative global health p...
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Corinne Ong's research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis and cyclosporiasis, which are emerging water and foodborne parasitic diseases. She has received funding from several agencies, including the Canadian Institute of Health Research (for a collaborative global health pilot project on emerging food and waterborne parasites in Vietnam) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant (for a program on novel genotypes of Cryptosporidium).
Aside from participating in the investigation of various waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis in British Columbia, Ong was invited by Health Canada to assist in the investigation of the 2001 cryptosporidiosis outbreak in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and by the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Center for Environmental Research to serve on two grant review panels.
She earned my BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and trained as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Microbiology in the London Hospital Medical College, University of London. She then joined the Department of Medical Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London as a research fellow. Over those seven years, her postdoctoral research focused on the research and development of novel tuberculosis and malaria vaccines. Ong also participated in the teaching of several postgraduate medical programs during this time, including master's level courses in clinical microbiology and medical parasitology.
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Aside from participating in the investigation of various waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis in British Columbia, Ong was invited by Health Canada to assist in the investigation of the 2001 cryptosporidiosis outbreak in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and by the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Center for Environmental Research to serve on two grant review panels.
She earned my BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and trained as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Microbiology in the London Hospital Medical College, University of London. She then joined the Department of Medical Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London as a research fellow. Over those seven years, her postdoctoral research focused on the research and development of novel tuberculosis and malaria vaccines. Ong also participated in the teaching of several postgraduate medical programs during this time, including master's level courses in clinical microbiology and medical parasitology.
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