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Examining the COVID-19 pandemic through a person-centred lens

Apr 17, 2023

As a recipient of the inaugural Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) Doctoral Awards, which supports outstanding students pursuing infectious disease research, Afia Amoako is driven by her person-centred ethos to examine the unequal landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto. Her goal? To provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how people living in this city experienced COVID-19.

Study identifies new SARS-CoV-2 variant in white-tailed deer and first evidence of deer-to-human transmission

Nov 10, 2022

A team of researchers led by EPIC member Samira Mubareka has characterized a new, highly divergent variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Ontario white-tailed deer. They also found the first evidence of deer-to-human transmission.

Member Spotlight: Samira Mubareka

Aug 31, 2022

Samira Mubareka is a clinician scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and an infectious diseases physician and medical microbiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

Examining the COVID-19 pandemic through a person-centred lens

Study identifies new SARS-CoV-2 variant in white-tailed deer and first evidence of deer-to-human transmission

Member Spotlight: Samira Mubareka

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