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| ===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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| | VOSNL was founded by [[Francis Jeffers]], a member of the [[Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity]] and a quality control specialist in the [[pharmaceutical companies|pharmaceutical industry]].((//Francis Jeffers, The Canadian Multicultural Inventors Museum.// Excellence Conference. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://archive.ph/q3R5X)) ((Khenti, A. (2021). //Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity c/o Taibu Community Health Centre// (p. 4). City of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20220928212643/https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/hl/comm/communicationfile-132894.pdf)) |
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| ==== COVID-19 ==== | ==== COVID-19 ==== |
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| VOSNL received a $50,000 CAD grant in July 2021 from the [[Government of Canada]] for a project titled "Vaccine Confidence in Canada: Focus on racialized and low-income communities."((//Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada - Competition Results.// (2021, July 26). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://archive.ph/Zo5b5)) It was awarded through a grant program called //"Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in Canada"// jointly administered by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council]] (NSERC) and the [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC).((//Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada.// (2021, July 26). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Promoter-Promotion/VaccineConfidence_eng.asp)) | VOSNL received a $50,000 CAD grant in July 2021 from the [[Government of Canada]] for a project titled "Vaccine Confidence in Canada: Focus on racialized and low-income communities."((//Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada - Competition Results.// (2021, July 26). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://archive.ph/Zo5b5)) It was awarded through a grant program called //"Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in Canada"// jointly administered by the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council]] (NSERC) and the [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC).((//Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada.// (2021, July 26). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Promoter-Promotion/VaccineConfidence_eng.asp)) |
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| | ===== Affiliations ===== |
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| | ==== Partners ==== |
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| | VOSNL's funding parters include:((//Partners and Support.// Visions of Science. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220928213934/https://www.vosnl.org/partners-and-support)) |
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| | * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Amgen]] |
| | * [[Council of Ontario Directors of Education]] |
| | * [[Counselling Foundation of Canada]] |
| | * [[Daniels Corporation]] |
| | * [[Gerry Egan Children's Charity]] |
| | * [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council]] (NSERC) |
| | * [[Ontario Trillium Foundation]] |
| | * [[Propeller Project]] |
| | * [[RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)]] |
| | * [[Sheila Kirpalani Foundation]] |
| | * [[TD Ready Commitment]] |
| | * [[Toronto Foundation]] |
| | * [[University of Toronto Governing Council]] |
| | * [[University of Toronto Mississauga]] |
| | * [[Weston Family Foundation]] |
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| | Program partners include: |
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| | * [[Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics]] |
| | * [[Ontario Science Centre]] |
| | * [[SciXChange at Toronto Metropolitan University]] |
| | * [[Toronto Community Housing]] |
| | * [[Toronto Metropolitan University]] |
| | * [[Toronto Public Library]] |
| | * [[University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering]] |
| | * [[York University]] |