Event Organization
BC SUPPORT UNIT
Public Health, Populations, Health Services, and Impacts
September 1, 2020 - September 2, 2020
This event has concluded.
View the entire symposium playlist on YouTube.
When tweeting about the symposium, please use the hashtag: #BCCOVIDResearch
The goals of this symposium were to:
- Share the broad range of research being conducted across BC on population and public health, health services, social sciences, education, and other impacts of COVID-19 to stimulate discussions around synergies and research gaps;
- Learn how this research can inform and support the BC Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 strategic priorities and the BC Strategic COVID-19 Research Framework; and
- Discuss strategies for minimizing patient burden and the efficient use of data and support platforms that are available to COVID-19 researchers in BC.
The online symposium included keynote presentations and rapid-fire presentations from leading BC researchers working on COVID-19, spanning Global Health and the following four themes:
1. Development and Implementation of Public Health Measures
- Epidemiology and Modeling
- Implementing Public Health Measures, Including Vaccination
- Communicating Public Health Measures
- Organization, Politics and Governance of Response
2. Population Health Impact of Public Health Measures
- Overall Population Impacts
- Indigenous Peoples/Communities
- Vulnerable Populations
- Seniors
- Children and Youth
- Rural Populations
- Specific Patient Populations
3. Pandemic Impact on Health Services and the Workforce
- COVID-19 Health Services
- Non-COVID-19 Health Services and Delivery
- Mental Health and Substance Use Services
- Rural Medicine and Virtual Services
- Long-Term Care
- Health Workforce
4. Other Impacts and Unintended Consequences of Public Health Measures
- BC Schools/Post-Secondary Institutions
- Work from Home
- Back to Work
- BC Geographies