Shaun Morris

Shaun Morris is a Clinician-Scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases, a Scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, and the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and is cross-appointed to the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Morris completed his medical degree at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and his Master's in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.  His clinical training in pediatrics and infectious diseases was at SickKids and his training in tropical medicine was at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Peru. 

Dr. Morris’ research portfolio has several complimentary areas of focus and is conducted in Canada and internationally. Major research pillars include reducing childhood mortality and morbidity from sepsis, COVID-19, and other infectious diseases, establishing burden and risk factors for severe infections in different populations and hosts, immunization, and tropical infections.  Internationally, he has led randomized trials and studies in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kenya and he collaborates with researchers throughout Asia and Africa.    

Dr. Morris is Chair of the Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) and is the SickKids lead investigator for multiple national and international research and surveillance networks including IMPACT (vaccine-preventable diseases), GeoSentinel (travel acquired infections) and the Special Immunization Clinic Network (vaccine safety and immunization in special hosts).