Dr. Jesse Papenburg is a clinician scientist practicing Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at the Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre.

Dr. Papenburg's research centers on the epidemiology of viral respiratory infections.  He is Vice-Chair of the Pediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) and Co-Director of the McGill University Health Centre Vaccine Study Centre. In 2022, his scientific outreach, commentary and health advocacy in lay media were recognized with the McGill Principal's Prize for Public Engagement through Media.

Since 2019, Dr. Papenburg has served as a voting member of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization, where he leads the influenza working group. In 2025, he was appointed Chair of the Quebec Immunization Committee at the Institut national de sante publique du Quebec.

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