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David Fisman

Professor

Epidemiology

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 6 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Epidemiology Mathematical Modeling Child Health Counterfactuals Health Economics Herd Immunity Immunization Misinformation/Disinformation

Latest papers

A coupled disease-misinformation model of measles transmission in the Canadian context.
Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026 · senior author
Healthcare resource utilization and cost burden of COVID-19 according to vaccination status in adults in Ontario, Canada, 2021-2023.
PloS one · 2026
Breaking Down Silos: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mitigate Indoor Airborne Pathogen Transmission.
Health security · 2026

All 52 publications

Latest funding

Canada Unvaccinated: Modeling Resurgence Risk of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$524,026
Canada Unvaccinated - Modeling the resurgence risks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the Canadian population
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
More than a Cold: Defining and Quantifying the Population Attributable Fraction for Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases for Common Respiratory Viral Infections
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$306,000

All 20 grants and awards

52 publications.

A coupled disease-misinformation model of measles transmission in the Canadian context.

Moore C, Fisman D

Infectious Disease Modelling2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2025.12.014 PMID: 41626581

Healthcare resource utilization and cost burden of COVID-19 according to vaccination status in adults in Ontario, Canada, 2021-2023.

McDonald C, Grajales AG, Yahia NA, Fisman D, Wang IY, Nightingale N, Neish CS, Nair S, Mustapha M, Yang J

PloS one2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0344690 PMID: 42018542

Breaking Down Silos: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mitigate Indoor Airborne Pathogen Transmission.

Zhu A, Bahnfleth WP, Bruns R, Buonanno G, Fisman D, Gregory CO, Haas CN, Jones B, Kumagai K, Lagoudas GK, Li Y, Linder A, Milton D, Morawska L, Olesen SW, Olsiewski P, Radonovich L, Wargocki P, Gronvall GK

Health security2026

DOI: 10.1177/23265094261418814 PMID: 41674314

Maintaining the value of influenza vaccination - the shift from quadrivalent to trivalent vaccines: an expert review.

Fisman D, Pérez-Rubio A, Postma M, Smith DS, Mould-Quevedo J

Expert review of vaccines2025First author

DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2025.2515597 PMID: 40462760

Cost-effectiveness models assessing COVID-19 booster vaccines across eight countries: A review of methods and data inputs.

Smith DS, Postma M, Fisman D, Mould-Quevedo J

Vaccine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126879 PMID: 39956089

The economic rationale for cell-based influenza vaccines in children and adults: A review of cost-effectiveness analyses.

Fisman D, Giglio N, Levin MJ, Nguyen VH, Pelton SI, Postma M, Ruiz-Aragón J, Urueña A, Mould-Quevedo JF

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics2024First author

DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2024.2351675 PMID: 38835218

Absenteeism and Productivity Loss Due to Influenza or Influenza-like Illness in Adults in Europe and North America.

Fisman D, Postma M, Levin MJ, Mould-Quevedo J

Diseases (Basel, Switzerland)2024First author

DOI: 10.3390/diseases12120331 PMID: 39727661

Canada needs a national COVID-19 inquiry now.

Fisman D, Horton J, Oliver M, Ungrin M, Vipond J, Wright JM, Zoutman D

BMC medicine2024First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03756-7 PMID: 39548532

Community masking for prevention of respiratory infections: wider evidence base.

Greenhalgh T, MacIntyre R, Kvalsvig A, Baker M, Oliver M, Fisman D, Vipond J

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q1899 PMID: 39214544

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review.

Greenhalgh T, MacIntyre CR, Baker MG, Bhattacharjee S, Chughtai AA, Fisman D, Kunasekaran M, Kvalsvig A, Lupton D, Oliver M, Tawfiq E, Ungrin M, Vipond J

Clinical microbiology reviews2024

DOI: 10.1128/cmr.00124-23 PMID: 38775460

Canada Unvaccinated: Modeling Resurgence Risk of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Canada

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Fisman, David N

Keywords: Child Health; Counterfactuals; Health Economics; Herd Immunity; Immunization; Misinformation/Disinformation; Modeling; Vaccination; Vaccination Programs; Vaccine Hesitancy

$524,026

Canada Unvaccinated - Modeling the resurgence risks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the Canadian population

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Wilson, Natalie J

Keywords: Health Economics; Health Equity; Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Infectious Disease Modeling; Outbreak Prevention; Population Health; Public Health Policy; Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

$120,000

More than a Cold: Defining and Quantifying the Population Attributable Fraction for Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases for Common Respiratory Viral Infections

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Fisman, David N

Keywords: Autoimmune Disease; Bacterial Infections; Cardiovascular Disease; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Fungal Infections; Influenza; Respiratory Syncytial Virus; Sars-Cov2-2; Stroke

$306,000

CANMOD: Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative (EIDM)

Principal investigators: Colijn, Caroline

$2,500,000

TARGet Kids! COVID-19 Study of Children and Families: Safe Return to School, Work, and Play

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Social Policy and Public Health Responses

Principal investigators: Maguire, Jonathon L; Birken, Catherine S

Keywords: Covid-19; Disease Severity; Emotional And Behaviour Problems; Epidemiology; Families; Pediatrics; Risk Factors; Transmission Dynamics

Understanding, Forecasting and Communicating Risk During the COVID-19 Epidemic

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Transmission dynamics/animal host/modeling

Principal investigators: Fisman, David N

Keywords: Bayesian Statistics; Disease Dynamics; Epidemiology; Mathematical Modeling; Risk Communication; Simulation

$331,683

Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH)

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative (EIDM)

Principal investigators: Murty, Vijayakumar

$3,000,000

Seasonal Transmission Dynamics of Influenza and Avian Influenza in Bangladesh: identifying pandemic risk and opportunities for control

SupervisorCIHR2018Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Berry, Isha

Keywords: Avian Influenza; Bayesian Statistics; Environmental Influences On Health; Epidemiology; Global Health; Influenza; Mathematical Modelling; Pandemic Risk; Seasonality; Time-Series Regression

$105,000

OPEN Stewardship: An Online Platform for Expanding Antibiotic Stewardship

Nominated PICIHR2017Operating Grant: Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance

Principal investigators: Fisman, David N; Greer, Amy

Keywords: Antibiotic Stewardship; Antimicrobial Resistance; Digital Disease Detection; Health Services Research; One Health; Surveillance

$878,225

One Health In Action: Linking Human and Animal Data Sources to Understand and Prevent Enteric Disease in Ontario

Nominated PICIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Fisman, David N; Greer, Amy

Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Enteric Disease; Environment; Epidemiology; Health Policy; Infectious Disease; Mathematical Modeling; Public Health; Veterinary Health; Zoonoses

$100,000

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David Fisman

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A coupled disease-misinformation model of measles transmission in the Canadian context.

Healthcare resource utilization and cost burden of COVID-19 according to vaccination status in adults in Ontario, Canada, 2021-2023.

Breaking Down Silos: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mitigate Indoor Airborne Pathogen Transmission.

Maintaining the value of influenza vaccination - the shift from quadrivalent to trivalent vaccines: an expert review.

Cost-effectiveness models assessing COVID-19 booster vaccines across eight countries: A review of methods and data inputs.

The economic rationale for cell-based influenza vaccines in children and adults: A review of cost-effectiveness analyses.

Absenteeism and Productivity Loss Due to Influenza or Influenza-like Illness in Adults in Europe and North America.

Canada needs a national COVID-19 inquiry now.

Community masking for prevention of respiratory infections: wider evidence base.

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review.

CANMOD: Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease

Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH)

Frequent collaborators

Ashleigh Tuite

Nick Daneman

Kamran Khan

Anne-Claude Gingras

Janet Raboud

Mark Ungrin

Allison McGeer

Bryan Coburn

Leonid Chindelevitch

Nisha Andany

Beate Sander

Sharon Walmsley

Tony Mazzulli

Andrew Simor

Lucas Castellani

Ramandip Grewal

Tiffany Fitzpatrick

Lillian Sung

Isha Berry

Marc Brisson

Sharmistha Mishra

Jonathan Dushoff

Samira Mubareka

David Champredon

Murray Krahn

Astrid Guttmann

Curtis Cooper

Mario Masellis