In March 2020, the RSC President and the Board of Directors determined that the RSC ought to do what it can to ensure that Canada emerges as a better society coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic than it was going into it.
SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS OF CONCERN REMIND US THAT WE UNDERESTIMATE BIOLOGY AT OUR OWN PERILSamira Mubareka, Andrew McArthur and Sandrine Moreira | March 16, 2021
Archives offer essential primary information to historians, scholars from other disciplines including historical epidemiology, families doing genealogies, the media—for anyone doing research into the past. What records of this pandemic will future researchers be able to access? The lived experiences of most of the population must be intentionally preserved for the future.
VIRTUAL VISITS: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE RECLAMATION DURING A PANDEMICDaisy Rosenblum | March 15, 2021
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY— THE FORGOTTEN CORE AREA OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT DURING THE PANDEMICTracy Vaillancourt | March 15, 2021
CHALLENGES CONFRONTING YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 VACCINESFrançoise Baylis and Landon J. Getz | March 12, 2021
Françoise Baylis is University Research Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.
COVID REMINDED US THAT CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL: LET’S MAKE IT UNIVERSAL TOOYvonne Hii and Henny Yeung | March 12, 2021
Yvonne Hii is a social planner at the City of Vancouver
SCIENCE AND THE UNCERTAINTY DANCETimothy Caulfield | March 12, 2021
Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta and author of “Relax, Dammit! A User’s Guide to the Age of Anxiety” (Penguin Random House, 2020).
CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAIR VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM FOR CANADAShawn Harmon | March 11, 2021
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.
ANAPHYLAXIS AND COVID-19 VACCINESJeannette Comeau and Karina Top | March 10, 2021
Jeannette Comeau is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University.
Karina Top is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University.
