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-Dr. **Brian Schwartz** MD, MScCH, is a Canadian emergency and public health physician. He is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]].
+Dr. **Brian Schwartz** MD, MScCH, is a Canadian emergency and public health physician. He is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine under the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]].
+He is notable in the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] due to his position on the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]], and his prior work in pandemic preparedness.
 ===== Education =====
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 He received his certification in emergency medicine from and is a Fellow of the [[College of Family Physicians of Canada]].
+==== Group of 8 (G8) and 20 (G20) ====
+Schwartz served as co-Incident Manager for health consequence management for the 2010 G8 Health System Coordination Committee.((//Schwartz, Brian.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Retrieved January 25, 2022, from https://archive.ph/WhdS0)) ((//2010 G8 Summit SMDHU Preparedness & Response Plan.// (2010, June). Simcoe Muskoka Health. https://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/docs/default-source/topic-emergencyprep/g8_summit_plan))
 ==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====
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 Schwartz served as Scientific Advisor to the Emergency Management Branch of the [[Ontario Ministry of Heath and Long Term Care]] from 2004 to 2011.
+==== Public Health Agency of Canada ====
+Schwartz has attended meetings within Ontario related to pandemic preparedness, for which his expenses have been repaid by the [[public_health_agencies:canada:Public Health Agency of Canada]].((Schwartz, B. (2020). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_Brian-Schwartz.pdf))
 ==== Public Health Ontario ====
-Schwartz is the Vice-President of [[public_health_agencies:Canada:Public Health Ontario]], which co-funds the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]. He was Public Health Ontario’s inaugural Chief of Emergency Management Support.
+Schwartz is the Vice-President of [[public_health_agencies:Canada:Public Health Ontario]], which co-funds the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((Dr. Brian Schwartz. (2017). //Public Health Ontario.// https://archive.ph/RFmYf)) He was Public Health Ontario’s inaugural Chief of Emergency Management Support.
 ==== Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre ====
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 ==== University of Toronto ====
-Schwartz is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]].
+Schwartz is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]].((//Schwartz, Brian.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Retrieved January 25, 2022, from https://archive.ph/WhdS0))
+===== Previous Pandemics and COVID-19 Preparedness =====
-===== Previous Pandemics =====
+Schwartz played a leadership role in Ontario during two previous pandemic crises. He served as Vice-chair of the [[Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee]] in 2003 and was Chair of the Scientific Response Team for the 2009 [[H1N1]] pandemic.((Zoutman, D., & Schwartz, B. (2003). //The Ontario SARS The Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory.// Government of Ontario. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/sars/hearings/03Wed.pdf/Wed_12_45_The_Ontario_SARS_Scientific_Advisory_Committee.pdf)) ((//Schwartz, Brian.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Retrieved January 25, 2022, from https://archive.ph/WhdS0))
-Schwartz played a leadership role in Ontario during two previous pandemic crises. He served as Vice-chair of the [[Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee]] in 2003 and was Chair of the Scientific Response Team for the 2009 [[H1N1]] pandemic.((Zoutman, D., & Schwartz, B. (2003). //The Ontario SARS The Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory.// Government of Ontario. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/sars/hearings/03Wed.pdf/Wed_12_45_The_Ontario_SARS_Scientific_Advisory_Committee.pdf))
 Pandemic preparedness documents, funded by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), include "[[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30518348/|Public health emergency preparedness: a framework to promote resilience]]".
 He co-authored a May 2016 study finding that insufficient evidence existed to determine whether N95 masks were superior to surgical masks in protecting healthcare workers against acute respiratory infections.((Smith, J. D., MacDougall, C. C., Johnstone, J., Copes, R. A., Schwartz, B., & Garber, G. E. (2016). //Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks in protecting health care workers from acute respiratory infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.// Canadian Medical Association Journal, 188(8), 567–574. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150835))
+Schwartz has further contributed to studies discussing communication strategies during public health crises.((Sanford, S., Schwartz, B., & Khan, Y. (2020). //The role of tacit knowledge in communication and decision-making during emerging public health incidents.// International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50, 101681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101681))
+As far back as 2015, Schwartz authored a study that concluded that the "evidence base for public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) is weak" alongside [[Bonnie Henry]] and [[Eileen de Villa]].((Khan, Y., Fazli, G., Henry, B., de Villa, E., Tsamis, C., Grant, M., & Schwartz, B. (2015). //The evidence base of primary research in public health emergency preparedness: a scoping review and stakeholder consultation.// BMC Public Health, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1750-1))
 ===== Climate Change =====
 Schwartz has also contributed to research on communications strategies around climate change and extreme weather, funded by [[public_health_agencies:Canada:Public Health Ontario]].((MacIntyre, E., Khanna, S., Darychuk, A., Copes, R., & Schwartz, B. (2019). //Evidence synthesis - Evaluating risk communication during extreme weather and climate change: a scoping review. Synthèse des données probantes - Évaluation de la communication des risques en présence de changements climatiques et de phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes : examen de la portée.// Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice, 39(4), 142–156. https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.39.4.06))
+===== Research =====
+Schwartz is a supervisor for a project titled “AI-driven solutions to mitigate the social and psychological impact of COVID-19”, which includes engaging with “vaccine advancement models” to “address the COVID-19 data misinformation.”((//AI-driven solutions to mitigate the social and psychological impact of COVID-19.// (2021, September 1). Canadian Research Information System. https://archive.ph/i2vUW))
+===== External links =====
+  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/brian-schwartz/|White Rose Wiki]]