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Shaun Morris

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Associate ProfessorEpidemiology DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Shaun Morris

Associate Professor

Epidemiology Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (3 CIHR, 1 SSHRC), most recently in 2026.

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Research

Immunization Infancy Pregnancy Respiratory Syncytial Virus Clinical Trial Global Health Infants Interventions

Latest papers

Resource use and disease severity of children hospitalized for COVID-19 versus multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in Canada.
Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2023 · senior author
Diagnostic accuracy of point‐of‐care ultrasound compared to standard‐of‐care methods for endotracheal tube placement in neonates
Pediatric Pulmonology · 2022
Simulator-based ultrasound training for identification of endotracheal tube placement in a neonatal intensive care unit using point of care ultrasound
BMC Medical Education · 2020

All 3 publications

Latest funding

POPCORN-RSV: A Canadian Pregnant Individual-Infant Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$3,411,901
Accelerating Advancements in Infant Probiotic Development and Clinical Trials
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$20,000
Maternal-newborn ABO blood group congruence and risk of infant invasive bacterial infection, as well as of infant respiratory syncytial virus infection.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$75,000

All 8 grants and awards

POPCORN-RSV: A Canadian Pregnant Individual-Infant Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization

Nominated PICIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Morris, Shaun K; Boucoiran, Isabelle; Lavoie, Pascal; Li, Patricia T; Sadarangani, Manish; Sander, Beate H; Shapiro, Gilla

Keywords: Immunization; Infancy; Pregnancy; Respiratory Syncytial Virus

$3,411,901

Accelerating Advancements in Infant Probiotic Development and Clinical Trials

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grants - Institute/Initiative Community Support

Principal investigators: Roth, Daniel E; Bandsma, Robert; Bassani, Diego G; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Comelli, Elena M; Morris, Shaun K; Parkinson, John; Shah, Prakeshkumar

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Global Health; Infants; Interventions; Microbiome; Neonatal Diseases; Probiotics; Regulations

$20,000

Maternal-newborn ABO blood group congruence and risk of infant invasive bacterial infection, as well as of infant respiratory syncytial virus infection.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Op. Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts-Infection/Immunity

Principal investigators: Grandi, Sonia

Keywords: Abo Blood Group; Administrative Data; Caterial Infection; Infant; Neonate; Pregnancy; Red Cells; Respiratory Syncytial Virus; Sepsis; Transplacental

$75,000

Building capacity to improve the assessment of vaccine safety, effectiveness and uptake in Pakistan: An environmental scan to inform and plan future research

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Piche-Renaud, Pierre-Philippe

Keywords: Emerging Infectious Diseases; Global Health; Low-And-Middle-Income Countries; Public Health; Vaccine Confidence; Vaccine Effectiveness; Vaccine Pharmacovigilance

$19,960

RNA transcriptomics for predicting disease severity and identifying etiology in febrile patients: signature discovery and validation for infectious and non-infectious diseases

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Morris, Shaun

Keywords: fever; RNA transcriptomics; global health; prognosis; diagnosis; tropical; infection; inflammatory

$250,000

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood and other primary care immunizations in Ontario, Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2021O. Gr.: Addr. the Health Impacts of COVID-19 - Imp. of def/disp care on health

Principal investigators: Ji, Catherine; Tu, Karen; Wilson, Sarah

Keywords: Childhood Immunization; Covid-19 Impact; Health Services; Immunization Coverage; Immunization Delays/Gaps; Mixed Methods; Primary Care; Qualitative Research; Retrospective Cohort Study; Survey Study

$248,749

From idea to reality: COVID-19 Vaccination for Children and Youth

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities - Vaccines

Principal investigators: Maguire, Jonathon L

Keywords: Children And Youth; Cohort; Covid-19; Epidemiology; Pediatrics; Population Health; Public Health; Vaccination; Vaccine Acceptance

The scale-up of a newborn care kit in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan

Nominated PICIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Morris, Shaun K

Keywords: Afghanistan; Community Health Workers; Health Equity; Newborn Care Kit; Newborn Mortality; Pakistan; Planning Scale-Up; Scale-Up Interventions; Stakeholder Consultation; Women Empowerment

$20,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Shaun Morris

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Resource use and disease severity of children hospitalized for COVID-19 versus multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in Canada.

Diagnostic accuracy of point‐of‐care ultrasound compared to standard‐of‐care methods for endotracheal tube placement in neonates

Simulator-based ultrasound training for identification of endotracheal tube placement in a neonatal intensive care unit using point of care ultrasound

POPCORN-RSV: A Canadian Pregnant Individual-Infant Trial for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization

Accelerating Advancements in Infant Probiotic Development and Clinical Trials

Maternal-newborn ABO blood group congruence and risk of infant invasive bacterial infection, as well as of infant respiratory syncytial virus infection.

Building capacity to improve the assessment of vaccine safety, effectiveness and uptake in Pakistan: An environmental scan to inform and plan future research

RNA transcriptomics for predicting disease severity and identifying etiology in febrile patients: signature discovery and validation for infectious and non-infectious diseases

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood and other primary care immunizations in Ontario, Canada

From idea to reality: COVID-19 Vaccination for Children and Youth

The scale-up of a newborn care kit in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan

Frequent collaborators

Hasan Merali

Manish Sadarangani

Julia Orkin

Jesse Papenburg

Susanne Benseler

Jesse Papenburg

Elie Haddad

Rae Yeung

Catherine Pound

Karina Top