Dr. Manish Sadarangani is Director of the Vaccine Evaluation Centre at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC Department of Pediatrics.

He completed his DPhil with the Oxford Vaccine Group in the UK, developing novel vaccine candidates for protection against capsular group B meningococcal disease, and a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Vancouver in 2013 before returning to Oxford to work as a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician.

He has worked in pediatrics throughout the world, including in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, North America and Europe. Dr. Sadarangani is co-Principal Investigator of the Immunization Monitoring Program ACTive Network, which undertakes surveillance of vaccine preventable infections in tertiary pediatric hospitals across Canada.

He is Chair of the Canadian Association for Immunization Research, Evaluation and Education, which facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration and networking involving all relevant stakeholders relevant to immunization in Canada.

He is a Principal Investigator of the Canadian Immunization Research Network, including multiple studies relevant to COVID-19. He is a member of the World Health Organization Strategic (WHO) Advisory Group of Experts Working Group on Meningococcal Vaccines and Vaccination and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Vaccines Against Antimicrobial Resistance.