Gender, sexuality and women’s studies professor Bipasha Baruah has been named the new Strategic Focus Western Research Chair. The chair recognizes Baruah’s innovative, interdisciplinary research at the intersections of gender, economy, environment a …
The longer the pandemic goes on, the greater the risk Canadians will struggle to adhere to guidelines and restrictions.
The Ontario government has appointed Western chancellor Linda Hasenfratz and Western bioethicist Maxwell Smith among eight members of the Ministers’ COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force.
Men, non-immigrants, younger adults and people living in rural areas are the Canadians most likely to resist COVID-19 safety measures, according to a Western analysis.
Less than a year after opening, Western’s ImPaKT lab is helping industry partners test the anti-viral properties of their products to protect consumers from COVID-19.
Transparency by pharmaceutical companies is one key to building trust and ensuring people agree to vaccination.
Education professor Prachi Srivastava has launched an interactive dashboard tool that reports and maps school-related cases of COVID-19 in publicly funded elementary and secondary schools.
A physician epidemiologist identifies what it would take for a defined-time lockdown to work in halting the spread of COVID-19.
The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) has declared a COVID-19 outbreak in Saugeen-Maitland Hall residence, where there are currently eight confirmed positive cases.
A trio of Western Engineering students decided to help vulnerable members in their community as they assembled hygiene kits for the homeless.
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry researcher Janet Martin says new evidence about how to continue with safe surgery during the pandemic has led to the launch of a dedicated toolkit to guide hospitals in keeping elective surgery up and running safely.
A new tool developed by a team of Western University computer scientists performs a digital deep dive on the near-endless stream of contact tracing (CT) mobile apps currently available on the market to evaluate their effectiveness and, more importantly for most, their privacy thresholds.
The ethics of emergency use vaccines during Africa’s ebola crisis can guide how Canada eventually authorizes vaccines for COVID-19, says a new paper co-authored at Western.