Dr. Noni MacDonald is Professor Emerita of Paediatrics (Infectious Diseases) at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a former Dean of Medicine. Her two current major areas of interest are vaccines (including vaccine safety, hesitancy, demand, pain mitigation, education, and policy locally, nationally and globally) and the MicroResearch program (www.microresearch-international.ca) that she helped cofound in 2008. Microresearch is focused on decolonizing and democratizing research by building community focused research capacity in developing countries and in Canada. She has published over 500 papers and was named to the Clarviate list in Dec 2023 – each researcher selected has authored multiple highly cited papers which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication in the Web of Science over past decade. Dr MacDonald is recognized in Canada and internationally as an advocate for child and youth health and as a leader in paediatric infectious disease and global health. She is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada. She is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Order of Nova Scotia, and was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in April 2024.