Please note that many of our researchers are busy at the frontlines of the COVID-19 response and may not be able to accommodate all media interviews. In that case, their responses may be delayed.
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COVID-related expertise |
AGING |
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Benedict C. Albensi
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Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Scientist, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre; Affiliate, Centre on Aging; Manitoba Dementia Research Chair |
Aging, dementia, memory, Alzheimers, inflammation and the brain, neurocognitive disorders, memory disorders |
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Christine Kelly |
Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Research Affiliate, Centre on Aging |
Home care |
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Celine Latulipe
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Associate Professor, Computer Science, Faculty of Science; Research Affiliate, Centre on Aging |
What happens when older adults are forced to conduct important activities (banking, shopping, health visits, etc.) online because they need to socially distance or shelter in place? |
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Michelle Lobchuk
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Professor, College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Research Affiliate, Centre on Aging |
Informal caregivers, empathic communication, caregiver wellness, caregiver skill-building, stigmatized conditions |
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Michelle Porter
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Director, Centre on Aging; Professor, Kinesiology and Recreation Management |
Ageism, inter-generational support |
BEHAVIOURAL & PSYCHOLOGY |
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Leslie E. Roos
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Faculty of Arts; Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba |
Multi-modal techniques to examine how acute and chronic stress affect children’s self-regulatory function. The goal of this work is to inform the development of targeted interventions that can mitigate negative outcomes linked to early adversity and promote positive adjustment across mental health, behaviour, and achievement domains. |
| Christine Van Winkle 204-474-8647 christine.vanwinkle@umanitoba.ca |
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Recreation Management |
leading a Federally funded, multi-province research project that looks at the use of mobile devices in everyday and festival contexts |
BUSINESS/FINANCIAL |
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Shiu-Yik ("Yik") Au
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Assistant Professor, Accounting & Finance, Asper School of Business |
Financial impacts of pandemic |
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Paul Larson
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Professor, CN Professor of Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business |
Supply chain management, business and finance, implications of global pandemic |
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Chi Liao |
Assistant Professor, Accounting & Finance, Asper School of Business |
Investment decision-making and behavioural finance |
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Fang Wan
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Professor, Marketing, Asper School of Business |
Consumer Behavior in Online Environments, Advertising and Persuasion, Consumer Information Processing, Cross-Cultural Consumer Psychology. |
COVID RESEARCH |
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Julien Arino |
Professor, Mathematics, Faculty of Science |
Studies the global spread of emerging pathogens such as SARS or pandemic influenza by means of the global air transportation network. For this purpose, we have assembled an extensive database detailing almost all trips using commercial air travel for the past few years. We use this data to assess the likelihood that a new pathogen will "go global" and what are its likely first targets. |
| Myrle Ballard Indigenous Scholar 204-474-6230 myrle.ballard@umanitoba.ca |
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Faculty of Science |
kitatipithitamak mithwayawin: Indigenous-Led Planning and Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19) and other Pandemics Then, Now, and Into the Future |
| Nediljko Budisa Nediljko.Budisa@umanitoba.ca |
Canada Research Chair in in Chemical Synthetic Biology, Chemistry, Faculty of Science |
Developing nanotechnology for use re COVID-19 |
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S. Michelle Driedger
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Professor, Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; former Canada Research Chair in Health Risk Communications |
Public and health risk communication, risk perception, and knowledge translation under conditions of uncertainty, the study of how new and emerging risk and public health controversies develop in science, policy and public forums. |
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Brian Mark |
Professor, Microbiology, Faculty of Science |
Revealing weaknesses in bacteria and viruses that can be exploited as new therapeutic targets to treat infectious disease. |
| Stephane McLachlan 204-293-4500 Steph.McLachlan@umanitoba.ca |
Professor, Environment & Geography, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources |
kitatipithitamak mithwayawin: Indigenous-Led Planning and Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19) and other Pandemics Then, Now, and Into the Future |
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Verena Menec
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Professor, Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences – former Canada Research Chair in Healthy Aging |
Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) - Effects of COVID-19 on older adults |
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Adolf Ng
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Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business |
An Investigation on Epidemic Logistical Response and Planning: The Case of Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) |
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Bradley Pickering
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Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Canadian Centre for Human and Animal Health |
Development of field-deployable and point-of-need diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 using CRISPR-based technology |
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Xiao-Jian Yao |
Professor, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Development of a novel DC-targeting vaccine that targets COVID-19 spike protein to control COVID-19 infection |
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Ryan Zarychanski |
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine/Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Scientist, Research Institute of Oncology & Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba |
https://www.covid-19research.ca/ Manitoba’s first clinical trial to test whether a malaria drug can prevent people from contracting COVID-19. |
ECONOMICS |
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Wayne Simpson |
Professor, Economics and Econometrics, Faculty of Arts |
Labour economics, employment and social policy, federal assistance initiatives (CERB, boosts to the CCB and GST credit, the wage subsidy program) |
EMPLOYMENT/LABOUR/SOCIAL POLICY |
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| David Camfield 204-775-0265 David.Camfield@umanitoba.ca |
Associate Professor, Labour Studies and Sociology, Faculty of Arts |
Income support programs; workers' rights; pandemic-related workplace health and safety; the pandemic and the future of work and society |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
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Nicola Koper |
Professor, Natural Resources Institute, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources |
COVID-19 related travel restrictions on migratory birds and species at risk |
EPIDEMIOLOGY |
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Timothy Booth
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Adjunct Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases; Director, Viral Diseases Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada. Chief of Bloodborne Pathogens and Hepatitis section, Enteroviruses and Gastroenteritis Virus section and the Viral Pathology section. |
Viral diseases and public health; diagnosis and epidemiology of virus infections; virus structure, evolution, morphogenesis and pathogenesis; diagnostic imaging of infectious disease; modes of transmission of viral infections; aerobiology of virus transmission; intervention strategies including anti-virals and vaccines. |
ETHICS |
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Neil McArthur
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Director, Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics. Associate Professor, Philosophy, Faculty of Arts |
Ethical issues relating to: politics and government; personal behaviour; technology; gender and sexual behaviour; medical ethics |
FOOD SAFETY & SUPPLY CHAIN |
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Derek G. Brewin
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Professor & Head, Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences |
Agricultural finance, marketing and risk management |
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Claudia Narvaez
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Assistant Professor, Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences |
Presence of bacterial contaminants in meats and produce |
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Barry Prentice,
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Professor, Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business | Supply chain management |
HEALTH SERVICES |
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| David Butler-Jones 204-789-7058 david.butler-jones@canada.ca |
Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Senior Medical Officer-Ottawa, and Regional Public Health Specialist- Atlantic, with First Nations Inuit Health, Health Canada |
Population and public health, organizational delivery of health services, determinants of health |
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Alan Katz
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Professor, Community Health Sciences and Family Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Director, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy |
Primary Care delivery, including quality of care indicators, knowledge translation and disease prevention. |
HISTORICAL |
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| Esyllt Jones 204-471-1546 Esyllt.Jones@umanitoba.ca |
Professor, History, Faculty of Arts. Professor, Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. Member of the Royal Society of Canada Covid-19 Task Force |
History of pandemic influenza and other infectious diseases; popular responses and unrest during epidemics; family, grief and mourning. |
INDIGENOUS |
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Linda Larcombe
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Associate Professor, Internal of Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Study of genetic, socio-cultural and environmental factors contributing to infectious disease susceptibility and resistance in Canadian Indigenous populations. |
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Pam Orr
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Professor, Medicine (Section of Infectious Diseases), Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases and Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Indigenous and circumpolar health with special interest in infectious diseases, social determinants of health and health care delivery, health and justice |
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Shirley Thompson |
Associate Professor, Natural Resources Institute, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources |
Preventative policy and possible impacts on First Nations related to COVID-19 |
INFECTIOUS DISEASES |
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Marissa Becker
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Associate Professor, Medicine, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases and Community Health Sciences |
Public Health, Infectious Diseases |
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James Blanchard |
Professor, Community Health Sciences, Director, Centre for Global Public Health, CRC in Epidemiology and Global Public |
Global health, how individuals, communities and large populations contribute to local/global distribution of communicable/non-communicable diseases |
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Jingxin Cao
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Adjunct Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Research Scientist, Division of Viral Diseases |
Understanding how cells react to defend a virus infection, how virus counteracts cellular defense to replicate in host cells. Goal is to design better therapeutic/prophylactic agents for viral infectious diseases. |
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Kevin Coombs
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Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Microbiology, Adjunct Professor, Physiology, Scientist, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba |
Virus structure, function, assembly, and pathogenesis. |
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John Embil
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Professor, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Director, Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Health Sciences Centre |
Nosocomial infections, their prevention, transmission and epidemiology, infections in the lower extremities of persons with diabetes, blastomycosis, new drug development, clinical trials with new antimicrobial agents, wound healing |
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Keith Fowke
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Head and Professor, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases; Professor, Community Health Sciences; Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Defining the role of pre-existing humoral and cellular immunity to influenza (including H1N1), disease outcomes, immune responses to vaccine and exposure. |
| Gregory Hammond 204-896-1588 dr.greghammond@icloud.com |
Professor, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Dynamics of communicable diseases, various public health issues for the population of Manitoba including burden of illness analyses (eg. the impact of respiratory infections on hospitalization, important prior to the introduction of new accines); effectiveness, impact, and/or cost-benefit analysis (eg. immunization programs, screening, surveillance, STD control); description of new or emerging diseases |
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Yoav Keynan
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Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Study of the innate and adaptive (T and B cell) immune responses to influenza infection and vaccination with emphasis on factors associated with Influenza cross-protection and disease severity, clinical management of infectious diseases |
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Jason Kindrachuk
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Assistant Professor, Viral Pathogenesis, Medical Microbiology &*Infectious Diseases, Canada Research Chair – Molecular pathogenesis of emerging & re-emerging viruses, Associate Professor - Department of Biochemistry, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone |
Characterization of the molecular pathogenesis of emerging and re-emerging viruses (ex. Ebola virus, influenza viruses) that impact Canadian and global public health. Clinical manifestations of disease. |
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Darwyn Kobasa
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Adjunct Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences; Research Scientist, Respiratory Viruses, Viral Diseases Division, Public Health Agency of Canada |
Focused on the pathogenesis of respiratory viruses, primarily the influenza virus with emphasis on viral molecular determinants of virulence and host factors that contribute to severe disease |
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Evelyn Lo
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Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences |
Nosocomial infections: epidemiology, prevention and transmission, quality improvement in reducing ventilator associated pneumonia. Infectious Diseases |
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Hana Weingartl
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Adjunct Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine. Head, Special Pathogens Unit, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency |
Emerging diseases, zoonotic viruses of veterinary importance, pathogenesis, virus-host interaction, animal models |
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John Wylie
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Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases and Community Health Sciences |
Epidemiology of bacterial/viral pathogens, determine the transmission dynamics of these pathogens within groups or populations of people, translate that research into information useable by public health departments to improve or plan new public health control programs. |
INFECTIOUS DISEASES - TRAVEL |
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Pierre Plourde
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Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology/Infectious Diseases and Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine. |
Risks to Canadians travelling to foreign destinations, assessment of immigrants and refugees from developing countries, epidemiology of social sexual and IDU networks, epidemiology of enteric pathogens. |
INTERNATIONAL TRADE |
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Ryan Cardwell |
Associate Professor, Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences |
International Trade Policy; Food Policy; Development Economics |
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