°Õ³ó±ð J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical and Geographic Medicine at Â鶹AV Ìýwas established in 1980, and is a world-renowned centre of expertise, research, and training in Clinical Tropical Medicine, including neglected tropical diseases, and research on Tropical and Geographically-restricted Infectious Diseases, and health problems of populations in remote and low-resource settings. This focus encompasses infectious pathologies imported among travelers and migrants, those arising in endemic settings abroad and in Canada, and those linked to exposure to ecosytems, animals, or vectors requiring a One Health approach.Ìý
The Centre includes an active Clinical Tropical and Geographic Medicine service comprising Ìýoutpatient and inpatient consultations, the Clinical Parasitology section of the MUHC Division of Microbiology, and the National Reference Centre for Parasitology.
The Centre also provides care for Canadians with locally acquired endoparasitic and ectoparasitic disease, or exposure to imported pathogens. The team provides comprehensive pre-travel health assessment and medical advice, and is part of the global and networks for surveillance of imported infections.
The Centre provides training for health care professionals at all levels, and delivers reference laboratory services in clinical parasitology.
Investigators at the Centre span the breadth of Tropical and Geographic Medicine from several faculties within and beyond Â鶹AV. Core areas of activity: clinical parasitology; diagnostics development, validation, and implementation; parasite epidemiology, vaccine immunology, as well as cold-climate parasitoses and circumpolar health.
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