Joanna Merckx is an Affiliate Member in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University, Montreal, where she studies the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
Her work focuses on clinical infectiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases with an emphasis on diagnostics, pediatrics and perinatology. She is a co-investigator in the Belgian SARS-CoV-2 school sero-prevalence studies.