Researchers
Below is a listing Mathematical Scientists affiliated with AARMS Member Universities conducting COVID-19 related research
- Joseph Baafi (Memorial University of Newfoundland | PhD candidate)
- Ali Beykzadeh (UNB Fredericton | PhD candidate)
- Matthew Betti (Mount Allison | Assistant Professor)
- Duane Currie (Acadia | Institutional Research Officer)
- Ellen Doria (UNB Fredericton | Summer Research Student)
- Coleman Hooper (Acadia/Harvard | Summer Research Student)
- Margaret Hopkins (Acadia | Summer Research Student)
- Ting-Hao Hsu (UNB Fredericton | Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Amy Hurford (Memorial University of Newfoundland | Associate Professor)
- Richard Karsten (Acadia | Professor)
- Sana Jahedi (UNB Fredericton | PhD candidate)
- Yifan Li (Acadia | Summer Research Student)
- J Concepción Loredo-Osti (Memorial University of Newfoundland | Professor)
- Renjun Ma (UNB Fredericton | Professor)
- Franklin Mendivil (Acadia | Professor)
- Gaia Noseworthy (UNB Fredericton | Summer Research Student)
- Javier Sanchez (UPEI/AVC | Professor)
- Sanjeev Seahra (UNB Fredericton | Professor)
- Holger Teismann (Acadia | Professor)
- Lin Wang (UNB Fredericton | Professor)
- James Watmough (UNB Fredericton | Professor)
In the news
- COVID-19 modelling more challenging as case numbers shrink, says biologist [2020-06-28]
- N.B. scientist part of national COVID-19 task force looking into shortage of PPE [2020-04-27]
- UNB math profs join national team to map – and stop – COVID-19 [2020-04-08 | paywall]
- UNB mathematics professor uses his expertise to track COVID-19 [2020-04-06]
Canadian Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 Task Force
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded a consortium of Canada’s mathematical sciences Institutes $666,667 to fight the global coronavirus pandemic. The successful application to the Government of Canada’s 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding call was led by the Fields Institute, and partner institutes include AARMS, CRM, and PIMS.
This federal funding has been supplemented by an additional $90,000 support for AARMS from the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation (NBHRF).
The research will mobilize a national network of infectious disease multi-scale modellers to assess the transmission risk of COVID-19 and project outbreak trajectories. This will enable them to evaluate public health interventions for outbreak prevention and control, while informing public health policymakers in the development of effective treatment strategies.
AARMS COVID-19 Seminars and Events
Partner organizations
- Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling (CCDM)
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
- Centre de recherches mathématique (CRM)
- Fields Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
- New Brunswick Health Research Foundation (NBHRF)
- Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)