Recent ICES Grants

Teasing apart the differential impact of variants of concern on COVID-19 severity and health inequities: a population-based genomic epidemiological investigation in Ontario and British Columbia

Principal investigators: Hogan C, Irvine MA, Janjua NZ, Kwong JC, Mishra S, Sander BH, Sbihi H
Co-investigators: Abdia Y, Baral SD, Brown KA, Buchan S, Daneman N, Galanis E, Gubbay JB, Hoang L, Jassem AN, Krajden M, Kustra R, Mubareka S, Murti M, Patel S, Prystajecky NA, Rose CL, Sekirov I, Smolina E, Tyson JR, Vanniyasingam T, Velásquez García HA

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2021-2022; $451,188

Comparative benefits and harms of long-term osteoporosis pharmacotherapy

Principal investigators: Cadarette S, Hayes KN
Co-investigators: Brown K, Cheung A, Juurlink JD, Kim S

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2020-2022; $100,000

The prevention of group B streptococcal (GBS) disease in infants

Principal investigators: Crowcroft N, Fell D, Sander B
Co-investigators: Barrett J, Bolotin S, Brown KA, Fittipaldi NV, Mcgeer AJ, Murti M, Sadarangani M, Schwartz KL, Wilson K

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2019-2022; $409,276

Recent Awards & Recognition

Randall Coates Epidemiology Prize

2014: Awarded to Dr. Kevin Brown by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. The prize is awarded to a MPH or PhD epidemiology current/ graduating student studying in the area of communicable diseases and demonstrates academic excellence.

5/20/2014

Recent ICES Publications

3/7/2023

Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine booster doses against Omicron severe outcomes

Grewal R, Nguyen L, Buchan SA, Wilson SE, Nasreen S, Austin PC, Brown KA, Fell DB, Gubbay JB, Schwartz KL, Tadrous M, Wilson K, Kwong JC. Nat Commun. 2023; 14(1):1273. Epub 2023 Mar 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36566-1

2/13/2023

Population-based evaluation of the effectiveness of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for reducing hospital admissions and mortality from COVID-19

Schwartz KL, Wang J, Tadrous M, Langford BJ, Daneman N, Leung V, Gomes T, Friedman L, Daley P, Brown KA. CMAJ. 2023; 195(6):E220-6. Epub 2023 Feb 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.221608

2/8/2023

Maternal mRNA covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy and delta or omicron infection or hospital admission in infants: test negative design study

Jorgensen SCJ, Hernandez A, Fell DB, Austin PC, D'Souza R, Guttmann A, Brown KA, Buchan SA, Gubbay JB, Nasreen S, Schwartz KL, Tadrous M, Wilson K, Kwong JC; Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Provincial Collaborative Network. BMJ. 2023; 380:e074035. Epub 2023 Feb 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-074035

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