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.
FACE-MASK USE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: REASONS TO WORRY?Henny Yeung, Suzanne Curtin and Janet Werker | February 23, 2021
Henny Yeung is an assistant professor in the department of linguistics at Simon Fraser University
MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF DYSLEXIA IN THE PANDEMIC AND BEYONDMarc Joanisse | February 23, 2021
Marc Joanisse is Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University
THE CASE FOR A COVID-19 VACCINATION CERTIFICATEColleen M. Flood & Bryan Thomas | February 22, 2021
Colleen M. Flood is University Research Chair & Director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa.
DATA GAPS ARE FUELING CANADA’S CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, DURING COVID-19 AND BEYONDKatholiki Georgiades, Harriet MacMillan, Stelios Georgiades, Charlotte Waddell, Peter Szatmari, Tracy Vaillancourt and Emily Gruenwoldt | February 22, 2021
HOW THE PANDEMIC HAS HELPED CANADA MOBILIZE EXPERTISEDarren Gilmour | February 17, 2021
Darren Gilmour is the executive director of the Royal Society of Canada.
COVID-19 IS CHANGING OUR WORLD: IT'S TIME TO RETHINK INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONRoopa Desai Trilokekar, Leesa Wheelahan, and Julia M. Wright | February 16, 2021
Roopa Desai Trilokekar is Associate Professor, Post Secondary Education, Faculty of Education at York University
BUILDING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT IMMUNIZATION TO PROMOTE GOOD HEALTHAnna Taddio and Noni MacDonald | February 16, 2021
Anna Taddio is professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto
Given the important role that art and creative research can play in responding to, and helping us understand, the complex issues that have arisen out of the pandemic, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 established a Working Group to integrate and underscore artistic and other creative responses to this crisis.
Given the important role that art and creative research can play in responding to, and helping us understand, the complex issues that have arisen out of the pandemic, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 established a Working Group to integrate and underscore artistic and other creative responses to this crisis.
The RSC Policy Briefing entitled “Seeking Shelter: Homelessness and COVID-19” is now freely and publicly available here.