We\u2019ve compiled this list of Canadian experts to help facilitate your coverage of the pandemic and related, emerging research. Although we\u2019ve tried to make the list as complete as possible, we may add additional experts in the coming days and weeks. We recommend that you check back regularly.<\/p>\n
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The university maintains its own expert list<\/a> on this topic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n L\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al tient une liste d\u2019experts<\/a> qui peuvent parler au nouveau coronavirus<\/p>\n <\/p>\n See the university\u2019s list of experts><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n View the list of experts here><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n View list of experts here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\nExperts de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al \u2013 COVID-19<\/h3>\n
Carleton University experts on COVID-19<\/h3>\n
University of Victoria experts<\/h3>\n
Ontario Tech University experts<\/h3>\n
Other universities\u2019 experts on COVID-19 and related topics<\/strong><\/h3>\n
McGill University – Updated list here<\/a><\/h3>\n
Health and medicine<\/h4>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Virus behaviour and counter-measures
\nGatignol is an associate member of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. She teaches virology and viral pathogenesis, including emerging viruses. Her research is mainly on virus-cell interactions applied to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the Zika virus.
\nEmail:<\/strong> anne.gatignol@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> French; English<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Ethics of vaccine development and testing
\nKimmelman\u2019s research centres on the ethical, social, and policy challenges in testing novel medical technologies in human beings (“translational clinical research”). Current projects include investigating risk, prediction, validity and knowledge value across the trajectory of drug development.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jonathan.kimmelman@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Understanding viruses
\nOughton is a specialist in infectious diseases and medical microbiology. His research interests are focused on the use of molecular techniques to improve clinical diagnostic assays, with relevant publications on C. difficile, MRSA, influenza, and other pathogens.
\nEmail: matthew.oughton@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguage: English<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Understanding viruses
\nTellier was part of the research team who first identified the SARS-associated coronavirus in Toronto following the outbreak in 2003, in collaboration with several groups in Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver.
\nEmail:<\/strong> raymond.tellier@muhc.mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English; French<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBusiness, consumerism and workplace practices<\/h4>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Future of airlines
\nGradek lectures in the diploma program in Integrated Aviation Management, and in the certificate and diploma programs of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Operations Management. He has worked in senior roles at Air Canada.
\nEmail:<\/strong> john.gradek@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English; French<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Rights for migrant workers
\nHanley is the Scientific Director of the Sherpa Research Institute on Migration, Health and Social Services. Her work focuses on closing the gaps between policies and practice concerning the social rights of migrant workers.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jill.hanley@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English; French; Spanish<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Retail shopping and marketing
\nMa\u2019s research interest includes food marketing, retailing and big data analytics.
\nEmail:<\/strong> yu.ma@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Remote Work\u00a0Reyt studies mobile technology-facilitated work and other organizational factors that influence mental representations.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jean-nicolas.reyt@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English, French<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEmotional regulation and wellness<\/h4>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Social isolation and health
\nGrover is a senior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. His research focuses on the importance of exercise, healthy eating, and other lifestyle interventions to improve health, as well as on digital, e-health interventions using web-based platforms.
\nEmail:<\/strong> steven.grover@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English; French<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Managing anxiety
\nHarley is a junior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. They are currently working to improve health and media literacy by developing educational interventions in a SSHRC-funded research project that will teach people about media literacy principles and strategies to help them regulate their emotions while consuming health-related information.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jason.harley@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English; French<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise: Perception of risk
\nOtto studies decision-making, and more particularly, why we sometimes rely on slow, deliberative, and effortful choices, while at other times we rely on fast, habitual, and reflexive choice.
\nEmail: ross.otto@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguage: English<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise: The psychology of panic
\nAn interdisciplinary anthropologist and cognitive scientist, Veissi\u00e8re studies social dimensions of cognition, consciousness, and human well-being through a variety of projects including placebo effects and hypnosis, hyper-sociality in smartphone addiction, and social polarization.
\nEmail: samuel.veissiere@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages: English; French; Portuguese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFamily and youth<\/h4>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Internet games
\nDerevensky is an international expert in the area of behavioural addictions and was on the World Health Organization’s committee which helped identify Internet Gaming Disorder as a recognizable disorder.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jeffrey.derevensky@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Helping children and teens cope with stress
\nMontreuil\u2019s research focuses on investigating the role of emotion regulation, attitudes, and beliefs and how symptoms of mental health problems might interfere with self-regulated learning in a group context and ultimately, educational achievement.
\nEmail:<\/strong> tina.montreuil@mcgill.ca <\/a>
\nLanguages:<\/strong> English; French<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUniversity of Waterloo<\/h3>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Mathematical Modeling
\nBauch has done extensive research into SARS and the 2009 pandemic influenza. He is a specialist in mathematical and computer modeling of infectious disease outbreaks, vaccination, and social distancing measures.
\nEmail:<\/strong> cbauch@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Privacy and tracking COVID-19
\nHengartner develops security and privacy solutions for mobile platforms with a focus on smartphones. Hengartner can speak to the potential to use cellphones to track the spread of the pandemic and the potential privacy concerns of doing so.
\nEmail:<\/strong> urs.hengartner@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPsychological aspects<\/h4>\n
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\nPurdon can speak to the fear and anxiety people are feeling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
\nEmail:<\/strong> christine.purdon@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nMoscovitch\u2019s work focuses on the nature and treatment of social anxiety; he can speak to fear and anxiety around COVID-19 and effective coping strategies.
\nEmail:<\/strong> dmosco@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nBrowne is a clinical psychologist with expertise in family relationships, child behaviour, parenting, and mental health during times of trauma, stress, and economic strife.
\nEmail:<\/strong> Dillon.browne@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Cultural and societal change
\nGrossmann can speak to emotional regulation and maintaining wisdom in times of uncertainty.
\nEmail:<\/strong> igrossma@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nDanckert can speak to the issue of boredom in quarantine, which was a significant issue during SARS.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jdancker@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nMacDonald is co-founder of the Collaborative, a feminist research lab situated at the Games Institute which specializes in the relationship between technology and public discourse. MacDonald can discuss how information is flowing across a variety of social media platforms, and how this affects change and impacts the public\u2019s worldview during times of crisis.
\nEmail:<\/strong> shana.macdonald@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPublic health<\/h4>\n
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\nJanes can comment on many dimensions of COVID-19, especially the efficacy of social interventions such as travel restrictions, quarantines, etc.
\nEmail:<\/strong> cjanes@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nMacEachen can talk about workplaces and COVID-19. Especially precarious employee workers and how difficult it is for them to admit they are sick and take time off.
\nEmail:<\/strong> ellen.maceachen@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Geriatric and internal medicine
\nIn addition to collaborating closely with Dr. Hirdes on several COVID-19 related projects, Heckman can speak to managing COVID-19 in long-term care homes and in the home care system.
\nEmail:<\/strong> ggheckman@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nGrindrod can comment on the necessity of protective equipment for medical professionals and has general expertise in epidemiology.
\nEmail:<\/strong> kelly.grindrod@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nHall can comment behavioral aspects of the COVID-19 spread, including social distancing.
\nEmail:<\/strong> pahall@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Infectious disease epidemiology
\nMajowicz worked with the Public Health Agency of Canada before joining the University of Waterloo. She can speak to outbreaks, the decisions of public health, individuals and organizations\/institutions around how their guidance is being rolled out, and the nature of public health guidance in general.
\nEmail:<\/strong> smajowicz@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nScott can comment on food security and COVID-19; her work has a particular focus on the Chinese context.
\nEmail:<\/strong> sdscott@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nButt can comment on pandemic preparedness and public health responses to COVID-19 in developed and developing countries. He can also discuss how underlying health conditions could impact individual responses to the COVID-19 infection.
\nEmail:<\/strong> zahid.butt@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> China\u2019s food system and agricultural policy
\nSi can speak about wet markets in China in relation to the virus. He can also speak about Chinese people\u2019s everyday experiences of the COVID-19 crisis, about how they accessed food, and about policies put in place by the Chinese government to support this.
\nEmail:<\/strong> sizhenzhong@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBiology<\/h4>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Immunology
\nDixon can speak to the immune response to viruses and the development of vaccines.
\nEmail:<\/strong> bdixon@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Virology
\nNissimov can speak on the ecology of viruses, virus evolution and the molecular biology of viruses.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jnissimov@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEconomic impacts<\/h4>\n
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\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Taxation, governance and risk
\nBauer can comment on the use of tax incentives to encourage behaviour or tax relief to lessen financial burden, including measures enacted in Canada following national or global crises.
\nEmail:<\/strong> ambauer@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Finance, banks, financial markets, and insurance\u00a0Thompson can speak about banks and financial markets in general and as they pertain to COVID-19 more specifically. He can also speak about the role of insurance versus governments when it comes to bearing risk such as that presented by COVID-19.
\nEmail:<\/strong> james@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nLam can speak about the economy in general and the decisions of central banks around COVID-19 more specifically.
\nEmail:<\/strong> jplam@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n
\nArea of expertise:<\/strong> Health economics
\nHorton can comment on economic effects of health issues, both for high-income and low- and middle-income countries, and can take a wider international lens. She recently commented on what would happen if an international leader contracted the disease.
\nEmail:<\/strong> sehorton@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHistorical context<\/h4>\n
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\nAreas of expertise:<\/strong> Canadian history of medicine, public health and health policy
\nDrawing on research comparing the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic response in Toronto to its experience with SARS in 2003, MacDougall is prepared to discuss prevention and the lessons learned from history as they apply to COVID-19.
\nEmail:<\/strong> hmacdougall@uwaterloo.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSimon Fraser University – Updated list here<\/a><\/h3>\n