Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table awarded President’s Impact Award

The Department of Medicine is thrilled to share the COVID-19 Science Advisory Table leadership has been awarded the 2023 President’s Impact Award for outstanding contributions and dedication to supporting evidence-informed decision making and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The table brought together interdisciplinary expertise from across the university, including Department of Medicine faculty Drs. Peter Juni (Scientific Director), Fahad Razak (Scientific Director), Nathan Stall (Assistant Scientific Director), Paula Rochon (Congregate Care Setting Working Group), and Andrew Morris (Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guideline Working Group),

During a period characterized by significant uncertainty and fear, the Science Table evaluated and reported on the rapidly evolving evidence base on COVID-19 and served as a mechanism to inform the complex decisions faced by Ontario’s health system decision makers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their mandate was delivered in a torrential context, with thousands of publications and pre-prints on modeling the spread of COVID-19, public health responses, case reports, diagnostics and testing being released daily. The impact of their work stretched far beyond public health leaders and decision makers, into the homes and lives of Ontarians across the province.

The Science Table and our DoM faculty within it, embodied our departmental commitment to taking a more active role in political discourse as it relates to healthcare and to engage in transformational change as healthcare experts, in partnership with decision makers. Our faculty, alongside their Table colleagues, used their position as physicians, leaders and educators to provide stalwart advice to decision makers that immeasurably impacted the lives of Ontarians over the course of more than two years.

Please join us in congratulating the Science Table and our DoM colleagues on this incredibly well-deserved accolade.