Ep.43: Keep Calm and Supply Vaccines
With Dr. Alan Bernstein and Dr. Vivek Goel
Listen in with Dr. Alan Bernstein and Dr. Vivek Goel
Dr. Alan Bernstein is president and CEO of the global research organization CIFAR and was the founding president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He sits on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is a member of Canada’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force and Chair of the Variants of Concern Scientific Advisory Council.
Dr. Vivek Goel will begin a 5 year term as the seventh president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo starting July 2021. Goel has held several senior roles at the University of Toronto, including Vice-President and Provost and most recently as Vice-President of Research and Innovation. The public health physician currently serves as a member of the federal government’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and Scientific Advisor for the CanCOVID Research Network. He was previously the founding president and CEO of Public Health Ontario.
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We’d like to thank the Diversity Institute and the Future Skills Centre for partnering with us to bring you Policy Speaking in February and March. Both Diversity Institute and Future Skills Centre are valued partners of PPF, and their work contributes greatly to the conversation around innovation, skills, diversity, and inclusion in Canada. PPF is currently working with these partners on a project called Skills for the Post-Pandemic World. Papers in this series will be released in March and April.
