Interview with Maria Major | University of Toronto Medical Journal } Home Archives Vol. 98 No. 3 (2021): Vaccines and Immunity Interviews Main Article Content

Monish Ahluwalia
Sabrina Campbell

Abstract

Maria Major is a medical field advisor in vaccines for Pfizer. She has worked in the vaccine industry since 1998 starting at Merck (chicken pox, meningococcal, HPV, Zoster vaccines), then Novartis (influenza, meningococcal vaccines), and for the past five and a half years at Pfizer (pneumococcal, meningococcal, COVID-19 vaccines). She graduated from Western University with a BSc in biology, holds an MPH from the University of Waterloo, and is in the final stages of completing her PhD in public health at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include the epidemiology and population impact of vaccines.

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