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Members of the media may directly contact the following experts: Dr. JianLi Wang (English only)Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine; Senior Scientist and Director, Work & Mental Health Research Unit, The Royal's Institute of Mental Health [email protected]“Mental health has never be...

Members of the media may directly contact the following experts:Nafissa Ismail (English and French) Holder of the University Research Chair in Stress and Mental Health, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences; Director, NISE Laboratory. [email protected] Nafissa Ismail’s work focuses on how exposure...

Six University of Ottawa-affiliated projects focusing on COVID-19’s impact on mental health have won important funding grants totalling over $1 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).  The Government of Canada’s Knowledge Synthesis Grant: COVID-19 Rapid...

At Hôpital Montfort, the first workers to fall ill of COVID-19 weren’t doctors or nurses. They were members of the cleaning staff.“That’s what made me sit up and take notice,” says Dr. Marie-Hélène Chomienne, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa, who is leading multi-disciplinary team studying the psychological well-bei...

The Global Pandemic App Watch, an AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa, will track the uptake of COVID-19 contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps around the world  Contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps are a new technology rapidly developed and launched to respond to the COVID-19 ...

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uOttawa announces new telemedicine service for students thanks to partnership with The Royal The University is proud to announce a new partnership with The Royal that will allow students access to an additional service: A Psychiatric Virtual Consultation Clinic. Telemedicine delivers real-time patient care via videoconferencing in a se...

Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Errol Mendes (English only) Full professor, Faculty of Law - Common Law Section; Former Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre. [email protected] “When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, everyone was saying that we are all in it together. Six months in, i...

For those living with serious mental illness, ensuring primary care providers do not overlook their chronic health problems is essential because hospitalization and, even, death from chronic health issues is a real risk. In fact, people with serious mental illness live lives that are 30% shorter than the rest of the population. A uOtta...