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PI: Leslie, Myles; Conly, John M
As international, national, or provincial agencies develop policies to combat an outbreak like COVID-19, these policies will always be interpreted through the local context and culture of the healthc…
PI: Mamuji, Aaida; Lee, Charlotte; Mwarumba, Njoki; Rozdilsky, Jack L; Tubula, Martin O
Chinese communities around the world are facing impacts to their personal wellbeing and livelihoods by way of discrimination and Sinophobia (anti-Chinese sentiment) due to COVID-19 disease (formally …
PI: Buckeridge, David L; Li, Yue
Canada has played a leading role in developing computer-based systems for scanning news on the internet to detect signals of infectious diseases. We will work with he Public Health Agency of Canada a…
PI: Wang, Lu; Chen, Dongmei; Yang, Lixia
Emerging and re-emerging global infectious diseases are presenting unprecedented public health challenges, resulting in negative, long-lasting health, sociocultural and economic consequences for indi…
PI: Crush, Jonathan; Zhong, Taiyang
This project will evaluate the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on household food security in Chinese cities, assess the effectiveness of temporary policies from multi-stakeholder perspective and dev…
Outbreaks such as COVID-19 risk deleteriously affecting the quality of pediatric health care. For vulnerable children (e.g., those with COVID-19 or other respiratory conditions, those who are immunos…
The global outbreak of COVID-19 is the latest example of a rapidly spreading infectious outbreak with global impact. Infected patients with mild symptoms and asymptomatic contacts need to be isolated…
PI: Yamamoto, Shelby; Dobson, Keith S; Premji, Shahirose S; Tao, Fang-biao; Zhu, Beibei
On January 31, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. In addition to focusing on immediate clinical/biomedical needs re…
PI: Whelan, William M; Trivett, Andrew D
The COVID-19 disease is caused by a virus. Since the symptoms of the COVID-19 disease are similar to many other illnesses, accurate detection and correct identification of the virus in a patient is i…
PI: Boudreau, Denis
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak that started in December 2019 triggered unprecedented measures to avoid a global pandemic. However, China has been particularly hit with over 70 000 confir…
PI: Pardee, Keith I
The outbreak of the coronavirus, first identified in Wuhan, China, highlights the importance of the capacity for a rapid and nimble response to infectious disease. As we have seen, the world in highl…
PI: Croxen, Matthew A; Gordon, Paul; Van Domselaar, Gary H
There is an ongoing worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus. As of February 18 2020, nearly 73,500 cases have been identified and 1,875 deaths reported. To prevent further spread and to unders…
PI: Sanati Nezhad, Amir; Niu, Dongyan
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in the city of Wuhan, in China and has spread widely, including Canada. In a few weeks, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection h…
PI: Unrau, Peter J; Niikura, Masahiro
COVID-19 is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With no treatment or vaccine currently available, it is imperative that rapid, sensitive, and simple scre…
PI: Trifiro, Mark A; Kirk, Andrew; Paliouras, Miltiadis
The recent outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrates how in today's age infectious agents can spread rapidly. Given the ability of individuals to travel across the globe infe…
In 2019, the world has seen the emergence of a virus that causes pneumonia in humans, which has a high probability of resulting in complications that include acute respiratory distress syndrome and d…
PI: Le, Xiaochun C
This research addresses the urgent need of rapid point-of-care diagnostics of COVID-19. The collaborative research is conducted by a multi-disciplinary team of virologists, chemists, infectious disea…
PI: Keshavjee, Shaf
Key to an effective response to the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a method to rapidly identify emergency department patients presenting with symptoms of COVID-19 and are at high ri…
A novel zoonotic coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has recently been identified in patients with an acute and potentially fatal respiratory disease (COVID-19). This virus is genetically similar to SARS and ME…
Current diagnostic testing for the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak requires the use of specialized equipment for molecular-based pathogen detection. The equipment must be housed in a facility with electricity an…
PI: Zhong, Lexuan; Hartling, Lisa A
This research program brings together experts in Engineering and Medical Sciences to develop Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) related to mechanical ventilation systems in buildings. These setti…
PI: Ng, Koi Yu Adolf
Effective mitigation to the impacts of sudden, large-scale epidemic outbreak is a key issue as it poses substantial impacts on human lives and society. As numerous urban and social activities involve…
PI: Labonté, Ronald; Ogden, Nicholas H; Beall, Reed; Carabin, Hélène; Graham, Janice E; Hollis, Aidan; Wiktorowicz, Mary E; Zarowsky, Christina
The unfolding 2019-nCov outbreak presents an opportunity to establish a real-time monitoring infrastructure to study how One Heath principles are implemented in the global governance of infectious di…
PI: Neumann, Patrick
COVID-19 is taking a significant toll on front-line healthcare providers- especially nurses with over 1700 infected and 6 deaths to date. It is no surprise that nurses are questioning the safety of c…
PI: Smith, Maxwell; Upshur, Ross E
A cross-cutting research priority identified by the recent WHO COVID-19 Global Research and Innovation Forum is the establishment of appropriate ethical oversight and global collaboration to accelera…
PI: Lee, Kelley; Grépin, Karen A; Kamradt-Scott, Adam
Outbreaks such as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) can result in inappropriate, excessive and counterproductive measures that hinder global coordination of outbreak response. Moreover, they compound …
PI: Wilson, Kumanan
On January 30th, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus originating in the city of Wuhan, China an international health emergency. Guided by global rule…
PI: Russell, James A
The coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic continues to grow exponentially affecting over 71,429 individuals with 1775 deaths (February 17, 2020), mostly in China but also in other countries. WHO and others…
PI: Murthy, Srinivas; Amuasi, John; Fowler, Robert A
The clinical management of COVID-19 remains unclear. First, we do not know what the disease is yet; we are still learning a great deal about what it causes in humans. We do not know what treatments t…
PI: Jha, Prabhat; Ansumana, Rashid; Dikshit, Rajesh; Leung, Gabriel M; Marsh, Ronald; Mekonnen, Wubegzier; Qiu, Haibo; Satav, Ashish R
The current global infectious threat, COVID-19, has not yet been widely detected in sub-Saharan Africa or other low income countries in Asia. It is almost inevitable that it will reach those places. …
Therapeutic Development for COVID-19 Coronavirus Induced Sepsis and ARDS Targeting Vascular Leakage
PI: Wen, Xiao-Yan
The new coronavirus COVID-19 is threatening to become a global pandemic for which currently no effective drugs exist. Although development of vaccines and drugs targeting the virus are ramping up, no…
PI: Kelvin, David J; Andrew, Melissa K; Kelvin, Alyson A; Marshall, Jean S; McNeil, Shelly A
The outbreak of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China has infected over 75,000 people and has caused close to 2,000 deaths. One of the major problems with this outbreak is that emergency rooms, hospita…
PI: Freedman, Stephen B; Dalziel, Stuart; Florin, Todd A; Funk, Anna; Kuppermann, Nathan; Mintegi, Santiago
The manifestations of COVID-19 in children are not yet well understood, and may be atypical when compared to adults. We propose to carry out a two-year global prospective study that will enroll and f…
PI: Lellouche, François; L'Archevêque, Paul
Automated oxygen titration, weaning and monitoring (FreeO2 device) may be a solution to reduce the number of interventions of healthcare workers (which is directly related to the risk of transmission…