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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News Award Type: COVID-19 Research Response Fund
A 20-year journey of health research in BC: Tackling emerging disease threats through rapid response research
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.
Precarious housing, prisons, and our COVID-19 vulnerabilities
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.
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Mapping the Social Epidemiology of front-line health-care workers
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.
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Partnering with COVID-19 patients to track future health
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.
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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, concentrating on a cohort of 800 young people who use drugs in Vancouver and Prince George.
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Searching for COVID-19 antibodies in children
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.
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MSFHR and Victoria Hospitals Foundation partner on funding research to detect future COVID-19 outbreaks on Vancouver Island
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.
MSFHR funds COVID-19 research to mitigate effects on BC’s vulnerable populations
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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BC research teams undertaking critical COVID-19 research
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.
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