As a lab, we rang in the New Year with a game of Pandemic and a boatload of holiday cookies. Little did we know that we would soon be dealing with the emergence of a new virus, SARS-CoV-2 that would be declared a real pandemic!

As someone who has spent much of their career working on outbreaks, disease dynamics, and pandemics this means that I have been actively working on COVID-19 research, as well as pandemic preparedness and response activities at the federal and provincial level since early February 2020. I am also currently a member of the PHAC COVID-19 Modelling Expert Advisory Group.

Since March 2020, we have published 6 peer-reviewed manuscripts on different aspects of COVID-19 transmission dynamics, and public health interventions. You can find our most recent COVID-19 research here. While writing research papers is an important part of my job as an academic scientist, I have also written a number of opinion pieces focused on 1) infection prevention and control in school settings, and 2) parenting during a pandemic.

You can find many more details about our COVID-19 projects and related media in my CV which you can find here.

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