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Michael Libman

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ProfessorJ.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical DiseasesMcGill University

Michael Libman

Professor

J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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29 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

2,288

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Other departments

Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases

Roles and appointments

Director, J.D. MacLean Tropical Diseases Centre

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Research

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Epidemiology infectious diseases parasitology travel medicine tropical diseases

Latest papers

Hantavirus infection in returned travellers: data from the GeoSentinel network
Journal of Travel Medicine · 2026
Outbreak preparedness and response in a globalized world: are we ready?
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease · 2026
Epidemiological and genomic features of chikungunya virus disease in travellers returning from Cuba, September 2025 to January 2026: a GeoSentinel analysis.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026

All 81 publications

Latest funding

Canadian Echinococcosis Symposium: Building a Canadian echinococcosis registry
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$19,560
Use of Wearable Sensors for Early Detection and Tracking of Viral Respiratory Tract Infections: The WE SENSE study
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$485,775
Accessibility and costs of healthcare for refugee claimants following changes to the Interim Federal Health Program
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
$766,176

All 3 grants and awards

81 publications.

Hantavirus infection in returned travellers: data from the GeoSentinel network

Isaac I. Bogoch, Sapha Barkati, Marta Díaz‐Menéndez, Loïc Epelboin, Daniel T. Leung, Shaun K. Morris, Francesca Norman, Robert J. Rolfe, Stephen D. Vaughan, Kevin O’Laughlin, Michael Libman, Rinki Goswami

Journal of Travel Medicine2026

DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taag062 PMID: 42405696

Outbreak preparedness and response in a globalized world: are we ready?

Francesca Norman, David Brett-Major, Chiara Sepulcri, Emmanuel Bottieau, Theresa Sepulveda, Federica Toscanini, Laura A. Nicolini, Jesse J. Waggoner, Sami Alcedo, Davidson H. Hamer, Ralph Huits, Michael Libman, Carsten Schade Larsen, Joaquín Salas Coronas, Emmanuel Bottieau, Elena Sulleiro, Noreen A. Hynes, Alexandre Duvignaud, Elizabeth Barnett, Stephen Vaughn, Lin Chen (54305), Cecilia Perret, Thomas Weitzel, Charlotte Martin, Tari Papavarnavas, Robert Rolfe, Federica Toscanini, Gilles Éperon, Sabine Jordan, Julian Klapowitz, et al. (65 authors)

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2026.103002 PMID: 42276312

Epidemiological and genomic features of chikungunya virus disease in travellers returning from Cuba, September 2025 to January 2026: a GeoSentinel analysis.

Díaz-Menéndez M, Castilletti C, O'Laughlin K, Itani O, Asgeirsson H, Vázquez González A, Norman FF, Perret C, Rothe C, Deiana M, Malagò S, Corman VM, Equihua Martinez G, Alcedo S, Clark E, Odolini S, Camprubí Ferrer D, Gobbi FG, Hamer DH, Larsen CS, Beisel C, Nnedu O, Pou Ciruelo D, Rodriguez Sevilla G, de la Calle-Prieto F, Emetulu H, Libman M, Trojánek M, Vaughan SD, Huits R

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2026

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2026.31.16.2600286 PMID: 42141885

Development of machine learning prediction models for systemic inflammatory response following controlled exposure to a live attenuated influenza vaccine in healthy adults using multimodal wearable biosensors in Canada: a single-centre, prospective controlled trial.

Hadid A, McDonald EG, Ding Q, Phillipp C, Trottier A, Dixon PC, Jlassi O, Cheng MP, Papenburg J, Libman M, Jensen D

The Lancet. Digital health202519 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.landig.2025.100886 PMID: 40610361

Severe malaria in travellers-time to create a specific definition.

Barkati S, Libman M, Schwartz E

Journal of travel medicine2025

DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaf066 PMID: 40667864

Oropouche Virus: A Rising Threat in the Western Hemisphere.

O'Laughlin K, Huits R, Libman M, Kozarsky P, Hamer DH

Annals of internal medicine2025

DOI: 10.7326/annals-24-03049 PMID: 39556840

Patient characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in international travellers: a GeoSentinel analysis.

McGuinness SL, Muhi S, Nadimpalli ML, Babiker A, Theunissen C, Stroffolini G, Motta L, Gobbi F, Huits R, Libman M, Leder K, GeoSentinel Network

Journal of travel medicine2025

DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taae090 PMID: 38952011

Measles importations by international travelers, GeoSentinel 2019-2025.

Huits R, Buonfrate D, O'Laughlin K, Hamer DH, Libman M, GeoSentinel network

Travel medicine and infectious disease2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2025.102885 PMID: 40738382

Resurgence of chikungunya in the Indian Ocean region in 2024-2025.

Huits R, Libman M, Hamer DH, Javelle E

Journal of travel medicine2025

DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaf055 PMID: 40577550

Intestinal protozoa in returning travellers: a GeoSentinel analysis from 2007 to 2019

Thomas R. Weitzel, Ashley F. Brown, Michael Libman, Cecilia Perret, Ralph M. H. G. Huits, Lin Hwei Chen, Daniel T. Leung, Karin S Leder, Bradley A. Connor, Marta Díaz‐Menéndez, Hilmir Ásgeirsson, Eli Schwartz, Fernando Salvador, Denis J.-M. Malvy, Mauro Saio, Francesca Norman, Bhawana Amatya, Alexandre Duvignaud, Stephen D. Vaughan, Marielle Glynn, the GeoSentinel Network, Carsten Schade Larsen, Christian Morberg Wejse, Martin P. Grobusch, Abraham Goorhuis, Emmanuel Bottieau, Marc Shaw, Annemarie Hern, Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Wasin Matsee, et al. (92 authors)

Journal of Travel Medicine202414 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taae010 PMID: 38245913

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Michael Libman

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Hantavirus infection in returned travellers: data from the GeoSentinel network

Outbreak preparedness and response in a globalized world: are we ready?

Epidemiological and genomic features of chikungunya virus disease in travellers returning from Cuba, September 2025 to January 2026:&#x2009;a GeoSentinel analysis.

Development of machine learning prediction models for systemic inflammatory response following controlled exposure to a live attenuated influenza vaccine in healthy adults using multimodal wearable biosensors in Canada: a single-centre, prospective controlled trial.

Severe malaria in travellers-time to create a specific definition.

Oropouche Virus: A Rising Threat in the Western Hemisphere.

Patient characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in international travellers: a GeoSentinel analysis.

Measles importations by international travelers, GeoSentinel 2019-2025.

Resurgence of chikungunya in the Indian Ocean region in 2024-2025.

Intestinal protozoa in returning travellers: a GeoSentinel analysis from 2007 to 2019

Canadian Echinococcosis Symposium: Building a Canadian echinococcosis registry

Use of Wearable Sensors for Early Detection and Tracking of Viral Respiratory Tract Infections: The WE SENSE study

Accessibility and costs of healthcare for refugee claimants following changes to the Interim Federal Health Program

Frequent collaborators

Cedric Yansouni

Kevin Kain

Susan Kuhn

Makeda Semret

Anne McCarthy

Matthew Cheng

Katherine Plewes

Sumontra Chakrabarti

Pierre Plourde

Christina Greenaway

Jesse Papenburg

Nandini Dendukuri

Brian Ward

Shaun Morris

Michael Kramer

Robyn Tamblyn

Susan Kahn

David Buckeridge

Robert Platt

Emily McDonald

Dennis Jensen

Kevin Barker

Louise Poirier

Martin Desrosiers

Epidemiological and genomic features of chikungunya virus disease in travellers returning from Cuba, September 2025 to January 2026: a GeoSentinel analysis.