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Deshayne Fell

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Assistant ProfessorSchool of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity of Ottawa

Deshayne Fell

Assistant Professor

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 CIHR), most recently in 2020.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2021.

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Research

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Perinatal Epidemiology Immunization Maternal And Child Health Population Health Data Linkage Pertussis Chronic Disease Maternal Health

Latest papers

Landscape analysis of pregnancy exposure registries in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.
BMJ open · 2025
Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: results of a nationwide survey
Public Health in Practice · 2025
A scoping review of active, participant centred, digital adverse events following immunization (AEFI) surveillance of WHO approved COVID-19 vaccines: A Canadian immunization Research Network study.
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024

All 10 publications

Latest funding

Infant and child health outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
Cannabis use in pregnancy and associations with child developmental outcomes: an extension to the Ottawa and Kingston (OaK) Birth Cohort
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$289,249
Infant and child health outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 20 grants and awards

10 publications.

Landscape analysis of pregnancy exposure registries in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.

Bhat N, Knudson S, AbuShweimeh R, Nakambale H, Mooney J, Salts N, Mehta UC, Sevene E, Fell D, Lamprianou S, Pal SN, Stergachis A

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097198 PMID: 41161849

Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: results of a nationwide survey

Malhamé I, Seymour RJ, Ashraf R, Gehrke P, Beyene J, Seedu T, Ahmed R, Dzakpasu S, Thorne S, Fell D

Public Health in Practice20251 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2025.100650

A scoping review of active, participant centred, digital adverse events following immunization (AEFI) surveillance of WHO approved COVID-19 vaccines: A Canadian immunization Research Network study.

Serhan M, Psihogios A, Kabir N, Bota AB, Mithani SS, Smith DP, Zhu DT, Greyson D, Wilson S, Fell D, Top KA, Bettinger JA, Wilson K

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics2024

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2023.2293550 PMID: 38374618

Safety of influenza vaccination during pregnancy: a systematic review

Wolfe DM, Fell D, Garritty C, Hamel C, Butler C, Hersi M, Ahmadzai N, Rice DB, Esmaeilisaraji L, Michaud A

BMJ Open202332 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066182

Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Corsi DJ, Donelle J, Sucha E, Hawken S, Hsu H, El-Chaâr D, Bisnaire L, Fell D, Wen SW, Walker M

Nature medicine2020

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-1002-5 PMID: 32778828

Vaccination during pregnancy: Canadian maternity care providers' opinions and practices.

Dubé E, Gagnon D, Kaminsky K, Green CR, Ouakki M, Bettinger JA, Brousseau N, Castillo E, Crowcroft NS, Driedger SM, Greyson D, Fell D, Fisher W, Gagneur A, Guay M, Halperin D, Halperin SA, MacDonald S, Meyer SB, Waite NM, Wilson K, Witteman HO, Yudin M, Cook JL

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics2020

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1735225 PMID: 32271655

Vaccination Against Influenza in Pregnancy: A Survey of Canadian Maternity Care Providers.

Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Canada : JOGC = Journal d'obstetrique et gynecologie du Canada : JOGC2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.jogc.2018.09.007 PMID: 30409569

A mixed methods evaluation of the maternal-newborn dashboard in Ontario: dashboard attributes, contextual factors, and facilitators and barriers to use: a study protocol

Dunn S, Sprague AE, Grimshaw JM, Graham ID, Taljaard M, Fell D, Peterson WE, Darling E, Harrold J, Smith GN

Implementation Science201634 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s13012-016-0427-1

Shoulder dystocia documentation: an evaluation of a documentation training intervention.

LeRiche T, Oppenheimer L, Caughey S, Fell D, Walker M

Journal of patient safety2015

DOI: 10.1097/pts.0b013e3182948a51 PMID: 24583960

The effect of maternal Class III obesity on neonatal outcomes: a retrospective matched cohort study.

Gaudet L, Tu X, Fell D, El-Chaar D, Wu Wen S, Walker M

The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians2012

DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.688080 PMID: 22530629

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Deshayne Fell

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Landscape analysis of pregnancy exposure registries in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.

Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: results of a nationwide survey

A scoping review of active, participant centred, digital adverse events following immunization (AEFI) surveillance of WHO approved COVID-19 vaccines: A Canadian immunization Research Network study.

Safety of influenza vaccination during pregnancy: a systematic review

Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Vaccination during pregnancy: Canadian maternity care providers' opinions and practices.

Vaccination Against Influenza in Pregnancy: A Survey of Canadian Maternity Care Providers.

A mixed methods evaluation of the maternal-newborn dashboard in Ontario: dashboard attributes, contextual factors, and facilitators and barriers to use: a study protocol

Shoulder dystocia documentation: an evaluation of a documentation training intervention.

The effect of maternal Class III obesity on neonatal outcomes: a retrospective matched cohort study.

Frequent collaborators

Mark Walker

Kumanan Wilson

Devon Greyson

Donna Halperin

Shannon MacDonald

Mark Yudin

Eliana Castillo

Deborah Weiss

Lawrence Oppenheimer

Steven Hawken

Stephen Lapinsky

Darine El-Chaar

Leslie Skeith

Sarah Wilson

Rohan D'Souza

Danielle Rice

David Moher

Jocelynn Cook

Brian Hutton

Sandra Dunn

Laura Gaudet

Liz Darling

Amy Metcalfe

Joseph Beyene