With rapid response funding from MSFHR, BC researchers are working in collaboratively with academic and public health partners to develop models of how COVID-19 is spreading in BC.
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Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on newcomers to BC, urban Indigenous people, frontline health-care workers, and those in prisons or precarious housing is the focus of many of the funded researchers from the COVID-19 Research Response Fund.
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MSFHR joined research funders from across Canada to partner on CIHR’s Rapid Research Funding Opportunity that focused on mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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Stress levels, youth mental health and stigma toward racialized British Columbians are just some of the topics covered by a COVID-19 rapid response research project funded by MSFHR.
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The BC COVID-19 Strategic Research Advisory Committee (SRAC) has just published the first iteration of the BC COVID-19 Strategic Research Framework.
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MSFHR helped facilitate several meetings between CIHR-IHSPR and the BC research community to help build connections, facilitate knowledge translation and to inform CIHR-IHSPRâs strategic planning process.
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The $2 million MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund will focus on high-quality research that evaluates BCâs response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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To support the provincial response to COVID-19, MSFHR is funding two urgent research projects at the request of the Provincial Health Officer.
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MSFHR is shifting several of its competition deadlines and hosting peer review meetings virtually in response to COVID-19.
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MSFHR is partnering with Genome BC and Genome Canada to fund a new study exploring the use of pharmacogenomics to improve drug treatments for people with depression.
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