Dr. Melissa K. Andrew is a Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University and a Geriatrician at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. She did a Masters of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a Commonwealth Scholarship and completed her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at Dalhousie University on the subject of frailty and social vulnerability among older adults. As part of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, she studies frailty and multi-morbidity in relation to dementia. In the Canadian Immunization Research Network she studies how frailty impacts vaccine effectiveness, burden of disease, and clinical outcomes of infectious diseases. She collaborates with colleagues in primary care and social gerontology to study models of care for frail older adults. She has been a Board Member of the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging for over a decade and is a member of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).
