HAPPENINGS & KUDOS
Leveraging Canada’s Expertise UM research teams are seeking to accelerate the development, testing and implementation of measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and its negative impacts on people, communities and health systems. With funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Research Manitoba and others, UM teams are tackling a variety of issues and impacts, including: Research, scholarly work and creative activities underway related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic made up of as many investigations as there are impacts on our society. Despite the stoppage of on campus/in person research activities in March 2020, work continued remotely, with a phased resumption of those activities deemed essential as the pandemic allowed. UM prioritizes research related to all aspects of COVID-19 as essential.
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