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Ep 35: TB Stories - My Four Year Old Son

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

Release Date: 12/01/2020

Episode 4: Trans Pulse Canada COVID-19 mini-series show art Episode 4: Trans Pulse Canada COVID-19 mini-series

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

In our last episode, we are joined by guest Heather to discuss another theme of our qualitative analysis - changes in safety-related concerns among trans and nonbinary people during the pandemic. Through this episode our guest describes the ways in which some trans and nonbinary people experienced heightened safety concerns in addition to those related to the pandemic.

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Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

Through this episode, our guest Shadi speaks about another theme of the qualitative data analysis - the way COVID strained social networks, made it challenging to connect to the trans community, and the impact of virtual communication had on relationships.

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Episode 2: Trans Pulse Canada COVID-19 mini-series show art Episode 2: Trans Pulse Canada COVID-19 mini-series

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In this episode along with our guest Hazel, we focus on another theme we found in the Trans Pulse COVID qualitative paper. We discuss the heightened financial, employment, and housing precarity that some trans and nonbinary folks experienced during the pandemic and the way this impacted community members.

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Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

In this first episode, podcast host Leo Rutherford describes Trans Pulse Canada and its sub-study about COVID-19. He shares details of a thematic analysis of qualitative free-form responses from a national survey of trans and nonbinary people. In addition, the public health implications and key take-aways from the results of our study are described.

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Ep. 58: mod4PH Research Highlights - Within-host modelling: what does it mean to model immunity? show art Ep. 58: mod4PH Research Highlights - Within-host modelling: what does it mean to model immunity?

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

NCCID's new mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health.  In this episode, we spoke with Dr Jane Heffernan from York University about using mathematical modelling methods for understanding and controlling infectious diseases in individuals (or immunology) and in populations (or epidemiology), and discuss the differences between within-host and population-level modelling.

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Ep. 57: mod4PH Research Highlights - Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research show art Ep. 57: mod4PH Research Highlights - Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

NCCID's new mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health. In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr Melanie Cousins from the Public Health Agency of Canada about some of her PhD work, which was recently published in an article titled "Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research".    

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Ep. 56: mod4PH Research Highlights - NACI Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Vaccination programs in Canada show art Ep. 56: mod4PH Research Highlights - NACI Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Vaccination programs in Canada

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health. Today, we will be speaking to Man Wah Yeung and Dr Beate Sander about the recently published Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs in Canada, produced by the National Advisory Committee on Immunizations, or NACI. Man Wah is a Senior Health Economist at the Public Health Agency of Canada and Beate is a Canadian Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases, Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital...

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Ep. 55: mod4PH Research Highlights - the past, present, and future of math modelling for public health show art Ep. 55: mod4PH Research Highlights - the past, present, and future of math modelling for public health

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NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant math modelling concepts and research for public health.  In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr Michael Li, who is a Senior Scientist at the National Microbiology Lab, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Michael currently applies his modelling skill set at PHAC in the development and analysis of disease transmission models of COVID-19, mpox transmission, and other infectious diseases in Canada.  Today, Michael spoke with us about a fairly gigantic topic - the past, present, and future of infectious...

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Ep. 54: Mod4PH Research Highlights - successes and challenges in antibacterial modelling for public health show art Ep. 54: Mod4PH Research Highlights - successes and challenges in antibacterial modelling for public health

Infectious Questions : An Infectious Diseases Public Health Podcast

NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling research for public health. In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr. Gwen Knight. She is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and co-Director of the LSHTM Antimicrobial Resistance Centre. Gwen’s research is focused on mathematical modelling of the interactions between demographic factors and antimicrobial resistance (or AMR), One Health approaches to AMR at the farm level, and the interactions between bacteria and bacteriophage. Gwen spoke...

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Ep. 53: Mod4PH Research Highlights - being a math modelling researcher during the COVID-19 pandemic show art Ep. 53: Mod4PH Research Highlights - being a math modelling researcher during the COVID-19 pandemic

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NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling research for public health. In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr. Rachael Milwid. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, Rachael joined the Public Health Agency of Canada in August 2021. Since then, she has used her mathematical modelling skill set in the development and analysis of disease transmission models of COVID-19 importation into Canada, mpox transmission, and other exciting projects. Today, Rachael spoke with us about her experiences and considerations as...

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