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Corinne Ong is an Associate Professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she has been teaching since July 2008. Her areas of expertise include waterborne pathogens, parasitology, zoonotic diseases, vaccines, and molecular epidemiology. With a BSc and PhD from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, she previously held a faculty appointment at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. In her research, Dr. Ong has focused on molecular epidemiology related to cryptosporidiosis and cyclosporiasis, investigating emerging water and foodborne parasitic diseases. She has received funding from multiple agencies, including the Canadian Institute of Health Research, for projects on global health and waterborne parasites. Dr. Ong has also participated in outbreak investigations and served on grant review panels for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Her background includes postdoctoral research at both the London Hospital Medical College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focusing on tuberculosis and malaria vaccine development. Dr. Ong is actively involved in training students in the Medical Laboratory Sciences program and teaches courses in communicable diseases and environmental health.
Department of Chemical Engineering