We caught up with five of the COVID-19 Research Response Fund award recipients to gain insight on where their research programs are at, one year later.
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We caught up with five of the COVID-19 Research Response Fund award recipients to gain insight on where their research programs are at, one year later.
Continue reading “COVID-19 research journeys: Outcomes and impacts one year later”
Dr. Danuta Skowronski’s research, funded by MSFHR, directly informed the COVID-19 vaccine dosage recommendation that likely prevented thousands of hospitalizations across Canada during the third wave.
With an MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund award, Dr. Julian Somers is investigating practices to support some of BC’s most vulnerable citizens during the pandemic.
Continue reading “Precarious housing, prisons, and our COVID-19 vulnerabilities”
With MSFHR funding, Dr. Bala Nikku and his team are mapping the experiences of health-care workers in home-care and long-term care facilities across British Columbia during the pandemic.
Continue reading “Mapping the Social Epidemiology of front-line health-care workers”
Launched by Dr. Chris Carlsten, a new patient registry will track the health of every person who recovered from COVID-19, discharged from the major hospitals in Vancouver, and agreed to participate in the registry.
Continue reading “Partnering with COVID-19 patients to track future health”
Led by Dr. Patricia Spittal, her team of Indigenous and allied researchers focus on how Indigenous people have been impacted by the pandemic, concentrating on a cohort of 800 young people who use drugs in Vancouver and Prince George.
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British Columbian researcher Dr. Manish Sadarangani hopes to provide further clues to this question in coming months with funding from the MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund.
Continue reading “Searching for COVID-19 antibodies in children”
Dr. Laura Cowen, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria, is leading a team in developing a model that estimates rates of unreported COVID-19 cases on Vancouver Island and forecasts the likelihood of transmission in high-risk groups, like the elderly and people experiencing homelessness.
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 MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund, announced today. Other research teams will investigate testing the body’s response to COVID-19, detecting future waves of COVID-19 in BC, and understanding the virus’s transmission.
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How has COVID-19 affected long-term care delivery in BC? What do COVID-19 mutations mean in a pandemic response? Are physical distancing measures effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19? These are some of the questions the first 10 MSFHR COVID-19 Research Response Fund teams are tackling to further BC’s understanding and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These projects will have results available in time to inform public health responses by the fall and winter of 2020/21.
Continue reading “BC research teams undertaking critical COVID-19 research”