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Dr. Joanne Liu, a pediatric emergency room physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders, is joining the McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health as a professor “focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.” Liu, who grew up in Quebec City, got her degree in medicine at McGill in 1991. She joined Doctors Without Borders in 1996, working with Malian refugees in Mauritania, and co-ordinating aid projects around the world after natural disasters and epidemics like the Ebola outbreak in 2014. She also sits on the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
If Quebec and Canada can get to an “85-ish per cent” vaccination rate, there’s a chance we can attain a type of herd immunity that would relegate COVID-19 to the ranks of an annoying common cold, immunologists forecast. Picking an exact percentage is problematic, Quebec’s public health director Horacio Arruda said Tuesday, because it depends on
COVID-19 updates, May 5: Montrealers can now book vaccinations at airport drive-thru clinic Pfizer vaccine approved for children 12-15 in Canada. Quebec is awaiting recommendations from a provincial committee regarding that age group.
Author of the article: Andy Riga
Publishing date: May 05, 2021 • May 10, 2021 • 12 minute read Vaccinators gather for their daily briefing prior to their afternoon shift at the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Palais des congrés in Montreal on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Photo by Ryan Remiorz /The Canadian Press
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Quebec opens appointments for drive-thru vaccinations at Montreal airport
Dr. Joanne Liu, a Canadian pediatric emergency room physician and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is joining McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) as a professor focusing on pandemic and health emergencies.
A graduate of the McGill Medicine class of 1991, Liu first joined MSF in 1996, working with Malian refugees in Mauritania. Since then, she has provided and coordinated emergency medical aid across the globe, whether it be resulting from natural disasters like tsunamis or earthquakes or viral outbreaks such as Ebola in 2014. As a member of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Liu has been contributing to a set of comprehensive recommendations to protect people from future outbreaks. Last week she was conferred an Honorary Fellowship by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the most prestigious honour the School awards.
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