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Liane Macdonald

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Assistant ProfessorEpidemiology DivisionUniversity of Toronto

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Latest papers

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Persons Experiencing Postpandemic Homelessness in Canada
JAMA Network Open · 2026
Population-Based Analysis of the Risk of Mycobacterial Infections Associated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
Predicting Risk of Tuberculosis (TB) Disease in People Who Migrate to a Low-TB Incidence Country: Development and Validation of a Multivariable, Dynamic Risk-Prediction Model Using Health Administrative Data.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Functional Outcomes, Lung health, and Livelihood Outcomes among people With Tuberculosis (FOLLOW-TB): a pan-Canadian prospective cohort study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$2,945,248
Viral Dynamics of Influenza, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 in Children and Secondary Transmission within Households and Schools
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$1,113,076
A Key Step to Eliminating Tuberculosis in Canada: Informing the Implementation and Scale-up of Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$260,100

All 8 grants and awards

13 publications.

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Persons Experiencing Postpandemic Homelessness in Canada

Kassee C, Dabaja-Younis H, Richard L, Golden AR, Zhong Z, Allen V, Almohri H, Armstrong I, Baqi M, Barker KR

JAMA Network Open2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.57932

Population-Based Analysis of the Risk of Mycobacterial Infections Associated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.

Yan M, Hernandez A, Chan KK, Stanbrook MB, Blanchette PS, Johnston JC, Lee SM, Macdonald L, Richard-Greenblatt M, Marras TK, Brode SK

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2025

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciae626 PMID: 39871728

Predicting Risk of Tuberculosis (TB) Disease in People Who Migrate to a Low-TB Incidence Country: Development and Validation of a Multivariable, Dynamic Risk-Prediction Model Using Health Administrative Data.

Puyat JH, Brode SK, Shulha H, Romanowski K, Menzies D, Benedetti A, Duchen R, Huang A, Fang J, Macdonald L, Marras TK, Rea E, Kwong JC, Campitelli MA, Campbell JR, Schwartzman K, Cook VJ, Johnston JC

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2025

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciae561 PMID: 39561254

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Children, 1992-2023

Dabaja-Younis H, Kandel C, Green K, Johnstone J, Zhong Z, Kassee C, Allen V, Armstrong I, Baqi M, Barker K

JAMA Network Open202526 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.2861

Viral Dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Pediatric Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Science M, Orkin J, Maguire B, Bitnun A, Bourns L, Corbeil A, Johnstone J, Macdonald L, Schwartz KL, Bruce Barrett C, Reinprecht J, Heisey A, Nasso S, Jüni P, Campigotto A

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2024

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciad740 PMID: 38084906

The viral hepatitis B care cascade: A population-based comparison of immigrant groups.

Yasseen AS, Kwong JC, Feld JJ, Kustra R, MacDonald L, Greenaway CC, Janjua NZ, Mazzulli T, Sherman M, Lapointe-Shaw L, Sander B, Crowcroft NS

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)2022

DOI: 10.1002/hep.32162 PMID: 34537985

Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pre-test probability on positive predictive value of high cycle threshold severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results

Gubbay JB, Rilkoff H, Kristjanson HL, Forbes JD, Murti M, Eshaghi A, Broukhanski G, Corbeil A, Fittipaldi N, Hopkins JP

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology20225 citations

DOI: 10.1017/ice.2021.369

Provincial implementation supports for socio-demographic data collection during COVID-19 in Ontario's public health system.

Abdi S, Bennett-AbuAyyash C, MacDonald L, Hohenadel K, Johnson KO, Leece P

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2021

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-021-00551-2 PMID: 34370214

Viral hepatitis C cascade of care: A population-level comparison of immigrant and long-term residents.

Yasseen AS, Kwong JC, Feld JJ, Janjua NZ, Greenaway C, Lapointe-Shaw L, Sherman M, Mazzulli T, Kustra R, MacDonald L, Sander B, Crowcroft NS

Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver2021

DOI: 10.1111/liv.14840 PMID: 33655665

Validating viral hepatitis B and C diagnosis codes: a retrospective analysis using Ontario's health administrative data.

Yasseen AS, Kwong JC, Kustra R, Holder L, Chung H, Macdonald L, Janjua NZ, Mazzulli T, Feld J, Crowcroft NS

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2021

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00435-x PMID: 33417192

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Liane Macdonald

Latest papers

Latest funding

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Persons Experiencing Postpandemic Homelessness in Canada

Population-Based Analysis of the Risk of Mycobacterial Infections Associated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.

Predicting Risk of Tuberculosis (TB) Disease in People Who Migrate to a Low-TB Incidence Country: Development and Validation of a Multivariable, Dynamic Risk-Prediction Model Using Health Administrative Data.

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Children, 1992-2023

Viral Dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Pediatric Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study.

The viral hepatitis B care cascade: A population-based comparison of immigrant groups.

Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pre-test probability on positive predictive value of high cycle threshold severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results

Provincial implementation supports for socio-demographic data collection during COVID-19 in Ontario's public health system.

Viral hepatitis C cascade of care: A population-level comparison of immigrant and long-term residents.

Validating viral hepatitis B and C diagnosis codes: a retrospective analysis using Ontario's health administrative data.

Frequent collaborators

Tony Mazzulli

Beate Sander

Rafal Kustra

Aaron Campigotto

Jennie Johnstone

Allison McGeer

Sergio Borgia

Julianne Kus

Irene Armstrong

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

Michelle Murti

Michael Silverman

Andrea Benedetti

Nahuel Fittipaldi

Jessica Hopkins

Pamela Leece

Laura Bourns

Elizabeth Rea

Gregory Tyrrell

Jordan Feld

Lucie Richard

Kamila Romanowski