Joseph Munn (@sickkidsto.bsky.social), an IHEP Catalyst Grant awardee, highlights why early disease definitions matter, especially for future outbreaks, at our recent Catalyst Long-COVID seminar. 📺Watch the seminar: bit.ly/4p7YPxu

David Jones (2023 IHEP Studentship Awardee) is an author on a review on nursing shortages, with Sara Allin (@ihpmeuoft.bsky.social). The study highlights how burnout & turnover worsen staffing gaps, & why early action is key. 🔗 Read the review: bit.ly/43sgKXr

Join us on Dec 9 for our seminar exploring how AI & data modelling are being used to support pandemic readiness & improve public health infrastructure. Presenters include @zshakeri.bsky.social (@uoftdlsph.bsky.social) & Swetaprovo Chaudhuri (@engineering.utoronto.ca). Sign up ➡️ bit.ly/3VWjgkw

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at our Impacts on Individuals with Disabilities Catalyst Seminar, exploring how COVID-19 impacted access to care for people with disabilities, especially in racialized & immigrant communities. 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4q0qjX7

📢 Join us on Nov 24 at 12 PM ET for webinar: Health Security Unbound: Navigating Power, Surveillance, and Ethics. Led by @joyfitzgibbon.bsky.social (Trinity College), featuring panelists David Fisman (@uoftdlsph.bsky.social) & Victoria Haldane (IHPME). 🔗 Book your place: bit.ly/48MvQKN

⏰ Reminder: Join us Nov 11 for the Catalyst Seminar on how COVID-19 impacted access to care for people with disabilities, especially in racialized & immigrant communities. 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4q0qjX7 @uoftmedicine.bsky.social @utsc.bsky.social

👏 Congratulations to Chavon Niles & team! Their project mobilizing knowledge on disability, race & immigrant health for pandemic and public health planning, has received CIHR funding. The project was proudly supported in its early stages by the Institute. @uoftmedicine.bsky.social

We are now the Institute of Health Emergencies & Pandemics! Our new name reflects a broader commitment: advancing research, policy, and partnerships to strengthen global health resilience. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/43J7iyM #HealthEmergencies #Pandemics #UofT #HealthSecurity

🔔 Reminder: Catalyst Seminar Series is underway! This fall, join us for a series of webinars exploring cutting-edge research on pandemic and public health emergency readiness, resilience, and recovery. 🧵 Upcoming topics in the thread 👇 🔗 More info: bit.ly/4gcs13f

🗓️ Join us for the online Catalyst Seminar Series on the Impacts on Individuals with Disabilities on Nov 11! Chavon Niles (@uoftmedicine.bsky.social) will speak on health inequities faced by Black and racialized immigrants with disabilities during COVID-19. Sign up now ⬇️

📢 Join us on Nov 24 at 12 PM ET for webinar: Health Security Unbound: Navigating Power, Surveillance, and Ethics. Led by @joyfitzgibbon.bsky.social (Trinity College), featuring panelists David Fisman (@uoftdlsph.bsky.social) & Victoria Haldane (IHPME). 🔗 Book your place: bit.ly/48MvQKN

📢 Long-COVID Seminar Recording now available! Experts Joseph Munn (the Hospital for Sick Children), Kathi Wilson, and Andrea Rishworth (University of Toronto Mississauga) share insights on how Long-COVID is affecting marginalized and racialized communities in Ontario. 🎥 Watch now ⬇️

The BRN's Academic Practice Lab is back on Nov. 14! Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork

🗓️ Join us on Nov 11 at 12PM for Catalyst Seminar: Impacts on Individuals with Disabilities with Chavon Niles (@uoftmedicine.bsky.social) & Hilary Brown (@utsc.bsky.social). We’ll be exploring how COVID-19 worsened health inequities—especially in racialized & immigrant communities. 🔗 bit.ly/4q0qjX7

🌿 Meet @nadhahassen.bsky.social, her research explores how community-led nature prescribing can serve as a preventative tool to ease pressure on public health systems during emergencies. 🔦 Read the spotlight: bit.ly/43nIV9H #HealthEquity #SocialPrescribing @cisp-icps.bsky.social

This Friday is the Catalyst Seminar on Long-COVID! Join us on Oct 17 to learn important insights from community-led research and discussions on structural health inequities. 🕛 12–1 PM EST | 📍 Online 🔗 Register or join here:

📅 Join @rotmanschool.bsky.social on Oct 21, 5.30PM for 'The Chaos Advantage: Turning Uncertainty Into Strategic Edge'. Featuring IfP Steering Committee member András Tilcsik, the event explores how to build a strategy when stability is the exception, not the rule. 🔗 Book now:

🔔 Reminder: This fall, join the Institute for Pandemics for a series of webinars exploring cutting-edge research on pandemic & public health emergency readiness, resilience, & recovery. 🔗 More info: bit.ly/4gcs13f 🧵 Upcoming topics in the thread 👇

Former IfP awardee Daniel Eisenkraft Klein’s article in the BMJ Global Health reveals Canada’s equity rhetoric on Intellectual Property rights during COVID-19 fell short of action. Calls for reforms to IP waivers & CAMR to improve global access to medicines. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3JPaF00

Join us for the online Catalyst Seminar Series on Long-COVID on Oct 17! Kathi Wilson & Andrea Rishworth (U of T Mississauga) will share their community-centred research on structural racism & its impact on immigrant & racialized populations in Peel living with Long-COVID. Book now ➡️

COVID-19 affected racialized communities in Canada more severely, increasing illness, mental health struggles, and barriers to care. Experts say paid sick leave, anti-racism laws, and better data are needed to address these gaps. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/46SkGBA

📢 Calling all #UofT graduate students! On Oct. 17, join the BRN for a virtual lunch-hour to help shape the future of our programming. This informal session is your chance to share ideas on how we can better support your academic + professional journey 🤝🏽 buff.ly/GzIARpa #BlackResearchNetwork

Join us Oct 17, 12–1 PM EST, for the Catalyst Seminar on Long-COVID as Joseph Munn (Sunnybrook Research Institute) shares insights from his research on Post-COVID Condition in Ontarians & marginalized communities. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/48xePE4 #LongCovid #HealthEquity #CatalystSeminar #PublicHealth

Launching Oct. 10: The BRN's Academic Practice Lab, a monthly workshop series to support researchers on their academic journey! Our first workshop will explore how to craft strong applications & proposals at #UofT – including for the BRN IGNITE Grant ✍🏽 buff.ly/f7UwaJO #BlackResearchNetwork

How do drug shortages affect medication use? A study by Araniy Santhireswaran & Prof. Mina Tadrous @pharmacy.utoronto.ca reviewed studies on drug shortages & found that drug shortages often lead to significant reductions in drug utilization. 🔗Read more bit.ly/4nRoc62

📅 Catalyst Seminar 1: Long-COVID How is Long-COVID impacting marginalized & racialized communities in Ontario? Hear from experts Kathi Wilson, Andrea Rishworth & Joseph Munn on Oct 17 at 12pm. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/48xePE4 #LongCovid #HealthEquity #PublicHealth @utm.utoronto.ca

The 1st session in our Catalyst Seminar Series focuses on Long-COVID, with an emphasis on impacts to racialized and marginalized communities. Join us on October 17th to hear from Kathi Wilson (UTM) and Joseph Munn (Sunnybrook). Registration details here: bit.ly/4gcs13f #SeminarSeries #LongCOVID

Announcing the launch of our Catalyst Seminar Series, a dynamic series showcasing groundbreaking research funded by the IfP Catalyst and Research Development Grants. From October through March, there will be six online seminars. Full details on our website: bit.ly/4gcs13f

📢 Canada’s pandemic response talked equity—but did it walk the walk? A new BMJ Global Health article by IfP Studentship Awardee, Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, shows Canada resisted key IP reforms, limiting access to life-saving medicines globally. @ed4socialchange.bsky.social

Congratulations to IfP member, Jude Kong @dzevela.bsky.social , on being appointed to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists! www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/f...

On Sept 9th at 12pm ET, watch IfP Resilience Theme Lead Sara Allin in a webinar on key findings from the Health Systems in Action insights featuring Canada, Mexico and the USA. Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi

📑 IfP members Kathleen Wilson, Matthew Adams, and Tracey Galloway ( @utm.utoronto.ca ) have recently published two articles on the pandemic-related experiences of Canadian racialized and immigrant adults.

2023 IfP Graduate Studentship Awardee Yasmin Aboelzahab ( @uoftpharmacy.bsky.social ) has published her IfP-funded research on virtual care in pharmacy, co-authored with IfP members Andrew Pinto and Lisa Dolovich.

How did community groups work w/ faith-based & ethnoracial communities to build trust & boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake? IfP’s Shaza Fadel, Sara Allin & Erica Di Ruggiero ( @dlsph.bsky.social @ihpmeuoft.bsky.social) explore this in a new @cjphrcsp.bsky.social article focused on Peel Region & Toronto.

📣 A new scoping review funded by the Institute for Pandemics highlights how COVID-19 disproportionately impacted racialized communities in Canada—driven by longstanding structural inequities and systemic racism, worsened during public health crises.

Canada’s drug supply is vulnerable to tariffs and global shocks. @uoftpandemics.bsky.social, with Mina Tadrous @pharmacy.utoronto.ca brought together national leaders to find solutions. Read the key insights from the June 11 summit: 🔗 bit.ly/3IG523Q #DrugSupply #HealthSecurity #PharmaResilience

WE'RE HIRING an experienced Project Manager II to lead the coordination, implementation, and operational oversight of the PREPARED initiative (Pandemic Preparedness Engaging Primary Care and Emergency Departments). Apply by Aug. 5: gen-ezjf9k52wb5ac52e-prd.tam.ca1.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/...

The pandemic disrupted urban mobility, work & social interaction. But how resilient were our neighbourhoods? A new blog post summarizes a recent journal article on the resilience of neighbourhoods surrounding subway stations in Toronto post-pandemic downtownrecovery.com...

“Common cold coronaviruses are less likely the etiologic agent for the ‘common cold..SARS-CoV-2 experience has and is changing the epidemiology for the etiologic agents that cause the common cold” www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Read about IfP member @dzevela.bsky.social and the inspiration for his work using AI to combat public health challenges in the Global South: www.utoronto.ca//news/sellin...

A new study by IfP members Nelson Lee, Peter Austin, Sarah Buchan, Mina Tadrous, and Jeffrey Kwong find limited durability of protection from XBB.1.5 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer/Moderna) in adults 50+ in Ontario.

Quinn Grundy, @uoftnursing.bsky.social, discusses her IfP-funded catalyst grant work on plastics and sustainability in healthcare products at an online workshop on July 24th. Full details at this link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/plastics-i...

📊 New IfP-supported study by @ashtuite.bsky.social‬ @alisonesimmons.bsky.social‬ & @dfisman.bsky.social‬ updates a COVID-19 ICU forecasting model for Ontario. It accounts for evolving population immunity—esp. vaccine impact—and emphasizes the importance of calibrating early-pandemic models.

In this lecture @uoftpandemics.bsky.social I discuss multiple aspects of biosecurity, health security, and pandemic preparedness youtu.be/i94AgwWluTA?...

Recordings from each session of our #2025IfPInterdisciplinarySymposium are now available! Did you miss a session, or would you like to rewatch some of it? Click on the agenda section of the webpage to view the recording. bit.ly/42eoHOq

Instead of arguing about what's false, bypassing shifts the focus from the misinformation to a new, more positive alternative. Here are some examples and why bypassing can be useful 👉 scienceupfirst.com/misinformati... #ScienceUpFirst

H5N1 vaccine: Ongoing monitoring of the immune response to H5 influenza vaccines against circulating avian influenza strains will help to inform whether updated vaccines are needed. ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250641

Which viruses pose the greatest risk for future pandemics? A new article by @ameshaa.bsky.social & @t-inglesby.bsky.social describes how pandemic preparedness should prioritize 6 respiratory viral families with high pandemic potential and limited medical countermeasures. doi.org/10.1093/ofid...