Hugues Charest

Hugues Charest is an Associate Professor at the Quebec Public Health Laboratory, affiliated with the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec. His work focuses on molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases and molecular epidemiology of emerging pathogens.

• Research Interests
  • Development and optimization of molecular diagnostic methods
  • Molecular epidemiology for surveillance of novel infectious agents
• Selected Publications
  • 2011 - Vaccine effectiveness studies for pandemic H1N1
  • 2010 - Seasonal influenza vaccine interactions with pandemic strains
  • 2005 - Human metapneumovirus epidemiology in pediatric settings