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Repair and Recovery in Long-Term Care: Restoring Trust in the Aftermath of COVID-19 (2020-2023)
[Ottawa, January 30, 2024) – The RSC has released its latest report titled "Repair and Recovery in Long-Term Care: Restoring Trust in the Aftermath of COVID-19 (2020-2023).” The report is an update to “
Repair and Recovery in Long-Term Care Restoring: Trust in the Aftermath of COVID-19 (2020-2023)
Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19.
Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada
Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19.
Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada
The RSC Policy Briefing entitled “Urgent and Long Overdue: Legal Reform and Drug Decriminalization in Canada” is now freely and publicly available here.
“Criminalization of substance use is a strategy that perpetuates harm and stigma. In this report, we consider Canada's past and current approach to substance use, joining the call for a new path forward rooted in a human rights approach," said Co-Chair of the Working Group, Vanessa Gruben.
Putting the Humanities to Work for Canadians’ Health
The Humanities and Health Policy
Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19
Putting the Humanities to Work for Canadians’ Health
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Lessons from Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the path forward: Launch of a Series in The BMJ
COVID-19 led directly to 52,750 deaths in Canada with more than 4.6 million reported cases as of June 2023. This death rate of 1.372 per million exceeds the global average of 855 per million. What did we learn from this experience and how do we prepare for future health and public health crises?