Our team is working on COVID-19 epidemiology and transmission modeling projects:
We began with supporting local hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area with estimating potential surge in health-care needs in April-May and methodological considerations when estimating the reproductive number for infections like COVID-19 with pre-symptomatic transmission.
Our work has grown into a series of integrated projects and research questions the center on heterogeneity in acquisition, onward transmission, and severity across people, places, and time.
- Understanding and responding to the COVID-19 epidemic in the Greater Toronto Area with place- and population-specific interventions
- Evaluating the differential impact of what we have done, as we prioritize what to do next: a multi-provincial intervention modeling study using population-based data
- Modeling SARS-CoV-2 transmission and impact of interventions among persons experiencing homelessness (as part of the COVENANT study)
Our work contributes to the local and provincial response through the COVID-19 Science Table for the Ontario Ministry of Health.
The research is supported by:
- St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation Research Innovation Council (2020 COVID-19 Centred Research Investment Meeting)
- MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions
- Ontario Ministry of Science and Innovation Early Researcher Award
- St. Michael’s Hospital Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Operating and Supplement Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity and Foundation Grant)
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