Dr. Noni MacDonald is Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at Dalhousie in Halifax, Canada.

Her two current major areas of interest are vaccines including vaccine safety, hesitancy, demand, pain mitigation, education and policy locally, nationally and globally and the MicroResearch program.

Microresearch is focused on decolonizing and democratizing research by building community focused research capacity in developing countries and in Canada. She has published over 500 papers and is ranked by citations in top 1% in her field.

Dr MacDonald is recognized in Canada and internationally, as an advocate for child and youth health and as a leader in pediatric infectious disease and global health.

She is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada and is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Order of Nova Scotia and is a laureate of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.