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Kumanan Wilson

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Full ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa

Kumanan Wilson

Full Professor

Department of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Supervision signals

Professors usually supervise graduate students in their department's programs.
78 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 27 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (10 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2011.

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Academic metrics

214

Publications

869

Citations

h-index

199

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Ottawa profile.

Covid-19 Vaccination Public Health Policy Vaccine Passport Technology Vaccine Certificates Immunization Policy

Latest papers

Middle powers must collaborate on health data and health AI.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026 · senior author
Which way forward for Canada's vaccine injury support program?
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026 · senior author
Quantitative assessment of neonatal health using dried blood spot metabolite profiles and deep learning.
Science translational medicine · 2026

All 214 publications

Latest funding

Building and sustaining trust in healthcare: Co-developing a compendium of equitable strategies for building, rebuilding and maintaining trust
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$956,248
Breaking barriers: exploration of behavioural, social, and organizational factors influencing vaccine uptake among long-term care home residents
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Assessing maternal and infant health outcomes following immunization for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$646,426

All 41 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 214 publications.

Middle powers must collaborate on health data and health AI.

Razak F, Verma A, Wilson K

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2026-078892 PMID: 42259579

Which way forward for Canada's vaccine injury support program?

Halabi S, Wilson K

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01163-4 PMID: 41718959

Quantitative assessment of neonatal health using dried blood spot metabolite profiles and deep learning.

Chang AL, Reiss JD, Culos A, Becker M, Mayo JA, Marić I, De Francesco D, Phongpreecha T, Espinosa CA, Mataraso SJ, Berson E, Kim Y, Xue L, Xie F, Shu CH, Fallahzadeh R, Bidoki NH, Xenochristou M, Zhang M, Profit J, Lee HC, Gaudillière B, Angst MS, Hawken S, Wilson K, Stevenson DK, Shaw GM, Sylvester KG, Aghaeepour N

Science translational medicine2026

DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adv4942 PMID: 41564154

Assessing knowledge, attitudes, willingness, and barriers to Pneumococcal vaccination among Canadian older adults: a cross-sectional survey.

Maredia N, Laurie C, Ramsay T, MacDonald SE, McMillan J, Basta NE, Fadel SA, Andrew MK, Wilson K, Chyderiotis S, Elliott S, Bouzanis K, Barratt J, Sulis G

BMC public health2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-26170-x PMID: 41507867

Effect of Nonmedical Cannabis Legalization and Exposure to Retail Stores on Cannabis Harms : A Quasi-experimental Study.

Friesen EL, Pugliese M, MacDonald-Spracklin R, Manuel D, Wilson K, Hobin E, Pinto AD, Myran DT

Annals of internal medicine2026

DOI: 10.7326/annals-25-01960 PMID: 41285008

From Static Outputs to Living Evidence: AI for Integrated Knowledge Translation in Canadian Health Research.

van Allen Z, Beselt J, Maniate JM, Hickcox S, Rash JA, Wilson K, Archibald D, Radhakrishnan A

JMIR AI2026

DOI: 10.2196/99386 PMID: 42536038

Rethinking the objectives of a pan-Canadian immunization information system.

Thomas B, Flood C, Wilson K

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026Senior author

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-025-01129-y PMID: 41168631

A scoping review of vaccine certificate implementation in Canada and OECD countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Outcomes and lessons learned.

Nilormi A, Bensimon CM, Thomas M, Wiles S, Wilson K

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2026.2622178 PMID: 41719449

The impacts of caring for children with inherited metabolic diseases for families: a cross-sectional study

Chow AJ, Jordan I, Pallone N, Smith M, Chakraborty P, Brehaut J, Chan AKJ, Cohen E, Dyack S, Graham ID

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13023-026-04434-y

Limited durability of protection conferred by XBB.1.5 vaccines against omicron-associated severe outcomes among community-dwelling adults, Ontario, Canada.

Lee N, Nguyen L, Nasreen S, Austin PC, Brown KA, Buchan SA, Grewal R, Schwartz KL, Tadrous M, Wilson K, Wilson SE, Kwong JC, Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Investigators

Vaccine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127300 PMID: 40424706

Profile data last refreshed on September 25, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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Kumanan Wilson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Middle powers must collaborate on health data and health AI.

Which way forward for Canada's vaccine injury support program?

Quantitative assessment of neonatal health using dried blood spot metabolite profiles and deep learning.

Assessing knowledge, attitudes, willingness, and barriers to Pneumococcal vaccination among Canadian older adults: a cross-sectional survey.

Effect of Nonmedical Cannabis Legalization and Exposure to Retail Stores on Cannabis Harms : A Quasi-experimental Study.

From Static Outputs to Living Evidence: AI for Integrated Knowledge Translation in Canadian Health Research.

Rethinking the objectives of a pan-Canadian immunization information system.

A scoping review of vaccine certificate implementation in Canada and OECD countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Outcomes and lessons learned.

The impacts of caring for children with inherited metabolic diseases for families: a cross-sectional study

Limited durability of protection conferred by XBB.1.5 vaccines against omicron-associated severe outcomes among community-dwelling adults, Ontario, Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Steven Hawken

Pranesh Chakraborty

Julian Little

Doug Coyle

Mina Tadrous

Alan Tinmouth

Nadine Shehata

Astrid Guttmann

Carl van Walraven

Sylvia Stockler

Murray Alexander Potter

Devon Greyson

Kumanan Wilson

Mark Walker

Jennifer MacKenzie

Monica Taljaard

Daniel Kobewka

Ramandip Grewal

Manish Sadarangani

Shelly Bolotin

Alan Forster

Charles Hui

Linda Dodds

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Douglas Manuel

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Mindy Goldman

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