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Isaac Bogoch

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ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Isaac Bogoch

Professor

Department of Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (8 CIHR, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Education

MSc, Epidemiology
MD (Hons)
BSc (Hons)

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Research

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Public and population health Sexually transmitted diseases and infections Global health Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology)Infectious diseases Clinical medicine Internal medicine

Latest papers

Comparison of verbal autopsy using a large language model to biologically confirmed causes of death for malaria and other communicable diseases among children in six sub-Saharan African countries.
Malaria journal · 2026
Longitudinal screening of retail milk from Canadian provinces reveals no detections of influenza A virus RNA (April-July 2024): leveraging a newly established pan-Canadian network for responding to emerging viruses.
Canadian journal of microbiology · 2025
High SARS-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess COVID mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020-2022.
PLOS global public health · 2024

All 21 publications

Latest funding

ON-TRACK: Ontario Network for Trials, Research, and Advancement in Capacity-Building for HIV/STBBIs
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$800,000
Enhancing surveillance and detection of Mpox across Africa
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$350,000
Evaluating human mobility patterns, seroepidemology, and environmental sampling to enhance prevention & response to emerging and re-emerging pathogens of public health significance.
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$761,176

All 33 grants and awards

21 publications.

Comparison of verbal autopsy using a large language model to biologically confirmed causes of death for malaria and other communicable diseases among children in six sub-Saharan African countries.

Carshon-Marsh R, Wen R, Ng TKS, Kamadod R, Bogoch I, Bondy SJ, Witek TJ, Jha P

Malaria journal2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12936-025-05774-z PMID: 41495828

Longitudinal screening of retail milk from Canadian provinces reveals no detections of influenza A virus RNA (April-July 2024): leveraging a newly established pan-Canadian network for responding to emerging viruses.

Wallace HL, Wight J, Baz M, Dowding B, Flamand L, Hobman T, Jean F, Joy JB, Lang AS, MacParland S, McCormick C, Noyce R, Russell RS, Sagan SM, Snyman J, Rzeszutek GJ, Jafri MS, Bogoch I, Kindrachuk J, Rasmussen AL

Canadian journal of microbiology2025

DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2024-0120 PMID: 39332021

High SARS-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess COVID mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020-2022.

Osman A, Aimone A, Ansumana R, Bogoch I, Gelband H, Colwill K, Gingras AC, Langlois MA, Carshon-Marsh R, Swaray IB, Jambai A, Vandi M, Vandi A, Massaquoi M, Assalif A, Birnboim HC, Brown PE, Nagelkerke N, Jha P

PLOS global public health2024

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003411 PMID: 39255307

A deep-learning algorithm to classify skin lesions from mpox virus infection.

Thieme AH, Zheng Y, Machiraju G, Sadee C, Mittermaier M, Gertler M, Salinas JL, Srinivasan K, Gyawali P, Carrillo-Perez F, Capodici A, Uhlig M, Habenicht D, Löser A, Kohler M, Schuessler M, Kaul D, Gollrad J, Ma J, Lippert C, Billick K, Bogoch I, Hernandez-Boussard T, Geldsetzer P, Gevaert O

Nature medicine2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02225-7 PMID: 36864252

Practice Facilitation to Support Family Physicians in Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: A Multimethod Process Evaluation.

Shuldiner J, Shah H, Bar-Ziv S, Mauti J, Kaplan D, Tradrous M, Green ME, Bogoch I, Nowak DA, Mehta K, Desveaux L, Marshall LJ, Ikura S, Taljaard M, Hu J, Vohra-Miller S, Presseau J, Witteman H, Lofters A, Kiran T, Ivers N

Annals of family medicine2023

DOI: 10.1370/afm.3041 PMID: 38012044

Could vaccinating adults against malaria materially reduce adult mortality in high-transmission areas?

Gelband H, Carshon-Marsh R, Ansumana R, Swaray IB, Pandey A, Aimone A, Bogoch I, Eikelboom J, Jha P

Malaria Journal20234 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12936-023-04714-z PMID: W4386847481

A robust host-response-based signature distinguishes bacterial and viral infections across diverse global populations.

Rao AM, Popper SJ, Gupta S, Davong V, Vaidya K, Chanthongthip A, Dittrich S, Robinson MT, Vongsouvath M, Mayxay M, Nawtaisong P, Karmacharya B, Thair SA, Bogoch I, Sweeney TE, Newton PN, Andrews JR, Relman DA, Khatri P

Cell reports. Medicine2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100842 PMID: 36543117

The international and intercontinental spread and expansion of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella Typhi: a genomic epidemiology study.

da Silva KE, Tanmoy AM, Pragasam AK, Iqbal J, Sajib MSI, Mutreja A, Veeraraghavan B, Tamrakar D, Qamar FN, Dougan G, Bogoch I, Seidman JC, Shakya J, Vaidya K, Carey ME, Shrestha R, Irfan S, Baker S, Luby SP, Cao Y, Dyson ZA, Garrett DO, John J, Kang G, Hooda Y, Saha SK, Saha S, Andrews JR

The Lancet. Microbe2022

DOI: 10.1016/s2666-5247(22)00093-3 PMID: 35750070

Development of a repeated-measures predictive model and clinical risk score for mortality in ventilated COVID-19 patients.

Bartoszko J, Dranitsaris G, Wilcox ME, Del Sorbo L, Mehta S, Peer M, Parotto M, Bogoch I, Riazi S

Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie2022

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-021-02163-3 PMID: 34931293

Public health measures to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Canada during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.

Polisena J, Ospina M, Sanni O, Matenchuk B, Livergant R, Amjad S, Zoric I, Haddad N, Morrison A, Wilson K, Bogoch I, Welch VA

BMJ open2021

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046177 PMID: 33687956

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Public and population health Dear Professor Bogoch, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Comparison of verbal autopsy using a large language model to biologically confirmed causes of death for malaria and other communicable diseases among children in six sub-Saharan African countries." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Evaluating human mobility patterns, seroepidemology, and environmental sampling to enhance prevention & response to emerging and re-emerging pathogens of public health significance." (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Isaac Bogoch

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Comparison of verbal autopsy using a large language model to biologically confirmed causes of death for malaria and other communicable diseases among children in six sub-Saharan African countries.

Longitudinal screening of retail milk from Canadian provinces reveals no detections of influenza A virus RNA (April-July 2024): leveraging a newly established pan-Canadian network for responding to emerging viruses.

High SARS-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess COVID mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020-2022.

A deep-learning algorithm to classify skin lesions from mpox virus infection.

Practice Facilitation to Support Family Physicians in Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: A Multimethod Process Evaluation.

Could vaccinating adults against malaria materially reduce adult mortality in high-transmission areas?

A robust host-response-based signature distinguishes bacterial and viral infections across diverse global populations.

The international and intercontinental spread and expansion of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella Typhi: a genomic epidemiology study.

Development of a repeated-measures predictive model and clinical risk score for mortality in ventilated COVID-19 patients.

Public health measures to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Canada during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.

Frequent collaborators

Kamran Khan

Prabhat Jha

Ronald Carshon-Marsh

Aisha Lofters

Justin Presseau

Aisha Lofters

Owen McEwen

Tara Kiran

Paul Macpherson

Sharon Walmsley

Maria Ospina

Allison Chris

Sonya MacParland

Kumanan Wilson

Daniel Grace

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

Joshua Kimani

Laura Desveaux

Noah Ivers

Lorenzo Del Sorbo

Omolara Sanni

Rita Shahin

Louis Flamand

Craig McCormick

Tom Hobman

Monica Taljaard

Guy Dumont

John Eikelboom

Rupert Kaul

Mark Gilbert

Noah Ivers

Owen McEwen

Sharmistha Mishra

David Kaplan

Anne-Claude Gingras