Mark Lowey

Feds developing unprecedented long-term research and pandemic preparedness strategy

Mark Lowey
May 20, 2020

The federal government is developing Canada's first long-term research and pandemic preparedness strategy that will include a new Centre for Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research. Ottawa has provided nearly $1 million to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to lead its development.

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Organizations: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Centre for Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research, Dalhousie University, Government of Canada, International Centre for Infectious Diseases, McGill University, National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health, Parliament, Public Health Agency of Canada, Université du Québec, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Manitoba, University of Ottawa, University of Saskatchewan, and VIDO-InterVac
People: Dr David Naylor, Dr Michael Strong, Dr. (PhD) Amir Attran, Dr. (PhD) Matthias Gotte, Dr. (PhD) Pierre Talbot, Dr. Allan Ronald, Dr. David Buckeridge, Dr. David Butler-Jones, Dr. David Kelvin, Dr. Paul Gully, and Paul Hodgson
Topics: coronaviruses, COVID-19, data quality and sharing, Ebola, emergency response, epidemiology, federal response to COVID-19, Government funding for research, government spending on public health, infectious diseases, infectious diseases surveillance and control, long-term research and pandemic preparedness strategy, MERS, national infectious diseases data, national standards, pandemics, public health, sustained research funding, Task Force on Data Analytics, and Zika virus

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