Monika Naus

Dr. Naus obtained her medical training at the University of Alberta and her training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Toronto; during her training, she served as a federal field epidemiologist with the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control. Her public health career focus has been in communicable disease prevention and control, initially as the Senior Medical Consultant in Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Tuberculosis Control and then Physician Manager of the Disease Control Service and Provincial Epidemiologist, at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

She joined the BC Centre for Disease Control in July 2001 as Associate Director of Communicable Diseases and Epidemiology, and moved through increasingly senior Medical Director roles including of the Communicable Diseases and Immunization Service and the Immunization Programs and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service, until 2024. 

She has been active at provincial and national levels including 12 years on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization, which she chaired from 2003 to 2007, and to which she was the liaison member from the Canadian Immunization Committee (CIC) from 2020 to 2024 through the COVID-19 vaccine recommendations period; she was a member of the CIC from 2003 to 2024 including its chair, and active on several of its working groups including vaccine safety and immunization coverage and registries. She is the medical lead for the BC site in the Global Vaccine Data Network. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Please note Dr. Monika Naus is currently unable to accept new members (including MSc and PhD students for supervision) into her research group.