A single dose of COVID-19 vaccine is giving substantial protection to long-term care residents and health-care workers, says the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. Preliminary findings show the . . .
Call for Proposals for COVID-19 Child, Youth & Family Mental Health Impact Grant
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Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC), the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) and the
BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) are partnering to offer a grant of $50,000 to advance understanding of:
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of families and caregivers who have children and youth with special needs in British Columbia; and
The identification of existing evidence-based and promising approaches to mitigating these impacts.
All Canadians have been affected in some degree by anxiety, depression and social isolation during this global crisis, but Canadians with more acute needs struggle even more because they can’t engage mental health services with the same frequency.
Ottawa, ON June 11, 2003 The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has unveiled a three-part health research strategy on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
The strategy includes funding of C$1.7 million to four research teams, funding of about $1 million to support related public-health research, and the creation of a research consortium to coordinate, promote and support Canadian research in the area.
Leaders of the four teams funded to a total of $1.7 million are:
– Dr Mark Loeb (McMaster University), whose team will work to improve our understanding of the diagnosis, clinical course, epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of SARS;
– Dr Danuta Skowronski (University of British Columbia), whose team will carry out research leading to the development of a vaccine for SARS;
The COVID-19 virus does not impact all towns or neighbourhoods equally. That is one of the main takeaways of new "COVID-19 Risks in British Columbia’s Neighbourhoods" maps created by a . . .
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