Led by Dr. Patricia Spittal, her team of Indigenous and allied researchers focus on how Indigenous people have been impacted by the pandemic.
Continue reading “Charting the COVID-19 experience for young people who use drugs”
Led by Dr. Patricia Spittal, her team of Indigenous and allied researchers focus on how Indigenous people have been impacted by the pandemic.
Continue reading “Charting the COVID-19 experience for young people who use drugs”
British Columbian researcher Dr. Manish Sadarangani hopes to provide further clues with funding from the MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund.
Continue reading “Searching for COVID-19 antibodies in children”
In a candid interview, Dr. Sorensen reflects on his career as a clinician researcher, the mentors who helped him ask the big questions, and his advice to the next generation of health researchers.
We’re welcoming 63 awardees to the MSFHR community today.
Continue reading “Announcing the 2020 MSFHR Scholars and Research Trainees”
Dr. Bev Holmes and Dr. Sharon Straus discuss how Canada’s health research system has measured up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue reading “COVID-19 is testing the ability of Canada’s health research system”
Dr. Laura Cowen at the University of Victoria, is leading a team in developing a model that estimates rates of unreported COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Chonnettia Jones, reflects on what success looks like for responsive and responsible research funding.
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In order to get a full picture of how BC health researchers and the health research community at large has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched a province-wide survey to generate data.
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.
Continue reading “How COVID-19 modelling affects our pandemic response”
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.
Continue reading “MSFHR funds COVID-19 research to mitigate effects on BC’s vulnerable populations”