Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted in the Montreal Gazette.

"With 1,009 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Saturday and 917 on Sunday, concerns of a third wave in Quebec mounted on the weekend. “I was so hopeful a week ago,” said Catherine Hankins, co-chair of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, launched in April 2020 to track the spread of the virus and immune responses to it."

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Published on: 29 Mar 2021

Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Associate Professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy, is quoted by CBC News.

"…"Canada is one of the happiest places in the world, but it has been a little bit up and down. Now, it starts to look like it's a somewhat steady downward trend for about five years," said Christopher Barrington-Leigh, a happiness economist and associate professor at McGill University's Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Bieler School of Environment."

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Published on: 29 Mar 2021

Dr. Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is among the experts quoted in this Le Devoir article.

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Published on: 29 Mar 2021

Dr. Timothy Evans, Inaugural Director and Associate Dean at the School of Population and Global Health and Executive Director of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Secretariat is among the experts quoted in this piece.

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Published on: 26 Mar 2021

Professor Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit is among the experts quoted in this piece about the AstraZeneca vaccine.

"…“It’s one thing for a drug company or sponsor to bungle this on the first go but this is the second time this company has released information that was inaccurate and confusing, and it’s incredibly frustrating,” said Jonathan Kimmelman, a bioethicist at McGill University."

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Published on: 25 Mar 2021

Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted in a recent Daily Mail Article.

"…" It makes a lot of sense to try to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible," said Catherine Hankins, a McGill University epidemiologist and co-chair of another federal advisory group, the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force."

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Published on: 25 Mar 2021

For World TB Day, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director wrote about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the path to end tuberculosis in Forbes.

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Published on: 24 Mar 2021

For World TB Day, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director, co-wrote an op-ed in Devex.

"Like COVID-19, tuberculosis is an airborne respiratory infection. Before the start of the pandemic, TB was the leading infectious disease killer in the world. In 2019, about 10 million people fell sick with the disease and an estimated 1.4 million died of it."

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Published on: 24 Mar 2021

PhD Candidate Lena Faust and PhD student Alexandra Zimmer, both from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, wrote an opinion piece  for World TB Day.

"As we continue to face a global pandemic, it is timely to reflect on Canada’s leadership in global health. In particular, the unprecedented response to COVID-19 in terms of financial commitments by countries offers an important opportunity for comparison with another infectious disease: tuberculosis (TB)."

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Published on: 24 Mar 2021

Professor Jay Kaufman, of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health is among the experts quoted in Le Devoir newspaper.

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Published on: 23 Mar 2021

Ahead of World TB Day, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director, co-wrote an op-ed in the Telegraph.

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Published on: 22 Mar 2021

Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director discussed long-term health care for the elders with health journalist André Picard.

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Published on: 19 Mar 2021

Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force is quoted in the Montreal Gazette.

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Published on: 19 Mar 2021

Professor Daniel Weinstock, past director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, is quoted in this article.

"MONTREAL -- Montrealers tired of living under a curfew might see some light at the end of the tunnel with a possible loosening of restrictions now that the days are longer. Quebec Premier Francois Legault was asked at a news conference Monday in Montreal whether the curfew could be pushed back since daylight time began Sunday and people would want to take advantage of more daylight hours."

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Published on: 16 Mar 2021

Professor Daniel Weinstock, past director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, is among the experts quoted.

"Quand il fera encore jour au moment où nous serons censés entrer pour le couvre-feu, je pense qu'à ce moment-là, ce sera très difficile à maintenir et les gens commenceront probablement à montrer du mécontentement."

Read the article (in French)

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Published on: 15 Mar 2021

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