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Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table
The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, often referred to simply as the Ontario Science Table (OST), was a group of independent scientific experts that provided advice to the Government of Ontario about COVID-19. It consisted of several specialized research initiatives in addition to the core table, sharing common members, brand imaging, and partner institutions. This extended network included the Evidence Synthesis Network (ESN), the COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Access Link (REAL), and the Modelling Consensus Table (MCT). The group was initially hosted by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, switching to Public Health Ontario in April 2022. The core table was dissolved as of September 6, 2022, transitioning to a new body called the Ontario Public Health Emergencies Science Advisory Committee (OPHESAC). History The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table was formed in July 2020. In August 2021, former Assistant Scientific Director Nathan Stal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Of Medicine
A Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated MD, from the Latin language, Latin ) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the ''MD'' denotes a professional degree of physician. This generally arose because many in 18th-century medical professions trained in Scotland, which used the MD degree nomenclature. In England, however, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) was used: in the 19th century, it became the standard in Scotland too. Thus, in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland and other countries, the MD is a research doctorate, honorary degree, honorary doctorate or applied clinical degree restricted to those who already hold a professional degree (Bachelor's/Master's/Doctoral) in medicine. In those countries, the equivalent professional degree to the North American, and some others' usage of MD is still typically titled Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. History The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epidemiologist
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare. Epidemiologists help with study design, collection, and statistical analysis of data, amend interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review). Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies, and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences. Major areas of epidemiological study include disease causation, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, environmental epidemiology, forensic epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, screening, biomonitoring, and comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Health (agency)
Ontario Health (OH; ) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario. Described as a "''super agency''", Ontario Health oversees much of the administration of the Ontario healthcare system, with the stated goal of integrating services split between organizations. Since its foundation, Ontario Health has evolved into a centralized entity overseeing the coordination of Ontario’s health services. The 2022–2023 Annual Report highlights the agency’s role in pandemic recovery and system transformation, working closely with partners to streamline care access, balance resources, and accelerate initiatives across sectors. The agency is responsible for implementing system-wide initiatives to improve quality, equity, and access to care across sectors including hospital services, long-term care, home and community care, and mental health and addictions. Background Introduced by the Progressive Conservative (PC) government of Premier Doug Ford, as the Health Program Initiatives, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Health (Ontario)
The Ministry of Health is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system in the Canadian province of Ontario. The ministry is responsible to the Ontario Legislature through the minister of health, presently Sylvia Jones since June 24, 2022. Services and programs * Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) * Ontario Drug Benefit Program - prescription drug coverage * Community and public health through Public Health Ontario * Ontario Health agency * Health811 The ministry also regulates hospitals, operates some medical laboratories and regulates others, and co-ordinates emergency medical services for the province. The ministry once operated ambulance services outside of major cities in Ontario, but the services were downloaded to municipalities around 1998. History In the early years of Canadian Confederation, health was still considered primarily a municipal rather than provincial matter. The ''Public Health Act'' of 1873 permitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fields Institute
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, commonly known simply as the Fields Institute, is an international centre for scientific research in mathematical sciences. It is an independent non-profit with strong ties to 20 Ontario universities, including the University of Toronto, where it occupies a purpose-built building on the St. George campus. Fields was established in 1992, and was briefly based at the University of Waterloo before relocating to Toronto in 1995. The institute is named after Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, after whom the Fields Medal is also named. Fields' name was given to the institute in recognition of his contributions to mathematics and his work on behalf of high level mathematical scholarship in Canada. As a centre for mathematical activity, the institute brings together mathematicians from Canada and abroad. It also supports the collaboration between professional mathematicians and researchers in other domains, such as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa Citizen
The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as the Bytown ''Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the ''Citizen'' in 1851. The newspaper's original motto, which has recently been returned to the editorial page, was ''Fair Play and Day-Light''. The paper has been through a number of owners. In 1846, Harris sold the paper to John Bell (journalist), John Gordon Bell and Henry J. Friel. Robert Bell (1821-73), Robert Bell bought the paper in 1849, and sold it to I.B. Taylor in 1861. In 1877, Charles Herbert Mackintosh became the principal owner, and he later sold it to Robert and Lewis Shannon. In 1897, the ''Citizen'' became one of several papers owned by the Southam Newspapers, Southam family. It remained under Southam until the chain was purchased by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. in 1996. In 2000, the chain was sold to Canwest, Canwest Global, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jüni
Peter Jüni is a Swiss physician, general internist, and epidemiologist based in England. He was previously both a member of, and the scientific director of, the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and also a director of a research centre at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto. He is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Clinical Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. Early life and education Jüni was born just outside of Bern, Switzerland. He graduated from Bern University with a degree in medicine, specialised in internal medicine, and was a Research Fellow at University of Bristol in the Department of Social Medicine. Career After his research, Jüni returned to the University Bern, where he founded their clinical trials unit in 2007 and became Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in 2013. In 2016, e moved to Toronto, and joined St Michael's Hospital and was appointed professor of medicine at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CityNews Toronto
City''News'' is the title of news and current affairs programming on Rogers Sports & Media's Citytv network in Canada. The newscast division was founded on September 28, 1975 as City''Pulse'' as a standalone local newscast on the network's Toronto station owned by CHUM Limited. Through the acquisitions of the Edmonton, Winnipeg and Calgary A-Channel stations in 2004, it was relaunched under the City''News'' brand on August 2, 2005 and later expanded to Montreal in 2012. The remaining Citytv stations airs the news headlines segments during each station's ''Breakfast Television'' morning show. Before the 2017–2018 relaunch of City''News'' nationally, Citytv stations outside Toronto had their midday and evening news programs cancelled in 2006, and the remaining news programming on these stations (such as the nationally-broadcast ''CityNews International'') was cancelled in early 2010. After a soft launch in 2020 via CIWW/CJET-FM Ottawa, in June 2021 Rogers extended the ''CityNews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (). It is caused by SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Ontario, COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, Quebec, COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia, British Columbia and COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Alberta. Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's provinces and territories. The virus was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 25, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5. In March 2020, as cases of community transmission were confirmed, all of Canada's provinces and territories declared states of emergency. Provinces and territories implemented, to varying degrees, school and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTV News
CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada. The name ''CTV News'' is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), which are closely tied to the national news division. Local newscasts on CTV 2 are also branded as ''CTV News'', although in most cases they are managed separately from the newscasts on the main CTV network. History On 1 September 2011, chief news anchor Lloyd Robertson retired after 35 years at the helm of the flagship. In September 2023 BellMedia celebrated long-time news anchor Sandie Rinaldo's 50th year with the franchise. On 26 September 2024 CTV News admitted that it had altered or manipulated a clip of Pierre Poilievre broadcast the previous Sunday. It fired two news editors and apologized "unreservedly". On 2 October he ended his boycott of the broadcaster. in 1961 CTV News was launched by the government. National programs CTV's national news division produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieran Moore
Kieran Michael Moore is a Canadian physician and public servant who serves as the current chief medical officer of health of Ontario. Prior to his appointment, he served as the medical officer of health for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington from 2017 to 2021. Education Moore graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa in 1985, specializing in family and emergency medicine. He also holds a Masters of Public Health degree from Queen's University and a Master of Science degree in disaster medicine from the University of Brussels, in collaboration with the World Health Organization. He holds diplomas in sports medicine, Tropical medicine, hygiene, and humanitarian assistance, as well as completed a fellowship in Public Health & Preventive Medicine at Queen's University sanctioned by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Career Medical Officer of Health of Kingston Moore served at Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
