Toronto physician named new scientific director of provincial COVID-19 advisory group
Ontario’s knowledgeable COVID-19 advisory group has named a Toronto doctor as its new scientific director.
Public Well being Ontario, which now oversees the group, says Dr. Fahad Razak will change Dr. Peter Juni in his function on the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Desk.
Razak is an internist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and an assistant professor on the College of Toronto, with analysis experience in world well being and well being companies.
He has been a member of the science desk because it was based and Public Well being Ontario says he has contributed to briefs about lengthy COVID, vaccines, hospital customer insurance policies and therapeutics.
Razak says in a Twitter submit that he hopes “science will proceed to assist us decide one of the best ways ahead” by means of the following part of the pandemic.
Thanks to Peter Juni for his unbelievable management and to <a href=”https://twitter.com/SteiniBrown?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>@SteiniBrown</a> and Brian Schwartz for his or her knowledge guiding us by means of numerous challenges.<br><br>As we push by means of the following part of the pandemic, I hope that science will proceed to assist us decide one of the best ways ahead.
—@DrFahadRazak
The general public well being company introduced final month it will begin overseeing the knowledgeable group and says it’s growing new phrases of reference so the science desk can reply to future public well being emergencies if obligatory.
