Dr. Noni MacDonald is a Professor of Paediatrics (Infectious Diseases) at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a former Dean of Medicine there. She was first woman in Canada to be a Dean of Medicine. Her two current major areas of interest involve global health. The first is Vaccines including vaccine safety, hesitancy, demand, pain mitigation, education and policy especially through her work with the World Health Organization (WHO). The second area of interest is MicroResearch (www.microresearch-international.ca),a program founded in 2008 that is building community focused research capacity in developing countries and in Canada to help find local solutions for community health problems that fit the context, culture and resources.MicroResearch is about decolonizing and democratizing community focused research .