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

"Daniel Weinstock, a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, said “the curfew started at a time where the likelihood that people would go along with it was probably at its highest.” The weather was cold and the province was reporting an average of more than 2,500 COVID-19 cases a day."

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Published on: 15 Mar 2021

Dr. Louise Pilote, Professor in the Department of Medicine and Member of the SPGH Leadership team, is interviewed by Radio-Canada.

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Published on: 9 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 discusses prospects for achieving mass immunization.

"Vaccination frenzy grips Canada. This week saw several major developments in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Health Canada approved a fourth vaccine, while provinces moved quickly to extend the window in which a second dose can be administered."

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Published on: 9 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 featured by CBC News.

"The co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force says she's now "very much in favour" of delaying the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines for shots that must be administered under a two-dose regimen."

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Published on: 9 Mar 2021

Professor Daniel Weinstock, Past Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy is quoted by The Province.

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Published on: 5 Mar 2021

Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, of the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and of Sociology, is quoted by La Presse.

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Published on: 5 Mar 2021

Professor Daniel Weinstock, Past Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, is quoted by Global News.

"The notion of COVID-19 passports also raises issues for Daniel Weinstock, a professor at the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy"

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Published on: 5 Mar 2021

Dr. Nicole Basta, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is quoted in The Globe and Mail.

"…Nicole Basta, an epidemiologist at McGill University who is not involved in the project, said the CANVAS study will provide an important complement to the government's surveillance system.

"Together, they will give us the most complete information possible to detect, investigate, and verify any concerns that may arise about COVID-19 vaccines," she said."

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Published on: 5 Mar 2021

Dr. Richard Menzies and Dr. Jonathon Campbell, respectively Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, are featured in La Presse.

"Sans attendre Québec, des chercheurs de McGill, appuyés par des philanthropes, ont pris le taureau par les cornes et lancé à Montréal-Nord un projet pilote de dépistage systématique visant les personnes les plus à risque. Une stratégie qui pourrait « changer la donne » dans la lutte contre la COVID-19, croit le chercheur principal de l’étude. "

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Published on: 5 Mar 2021

(Op-Ed by Dr. Ananya Tina Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health) As Ontario plans to vaccinated up to 8.5 million at the end of Phase Two of their COVID-19 vaccine rollout, efforts must be made to ensure an equitable system to give access to low-income neighbourhoods like those mapped out by COVID race data in Toronto and Peel.

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Published on: 5 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 whose Secretariat is housed at the SPGH, spoke to the Montreal Gazette about the expected results of the surveys and studies supported by the Task Force.

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Published on: 19 Feb 2021

Dr. Madhukar Pai, of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director, has surveyed colleagues in charge of global health courses in several countries and presents his conclusions in his latest Forbes op-ed.

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Published on: 15 Feb 2021

Dr. Tim Evans, McGill School of Population and Global Health Director and COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Secretariat Executive Director is among the experts interviewed for the Ici Radio-Canada télé Science show "Découverte".

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Published on: 11 Feb 2021

Dr. Alissa Koski, of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, participates in a panel discussing the existence of child marriage in Canada.

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Published on: 11 Feb 2021

Dr. Catherine Hankins, of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, and co-chair of Canada's Covid Immunity task Force spoke with host Shawn Apel and callers.

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Published on: 10 Feb 2021

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