====== Erik Friesen ======

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**Erik Loewen Friesen** is a Canadian research student based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]].

===== Career and Affiliations =====

==== University of Toronto ====

Friesen is a MD/PhD Student in Addictions & Mental Health at the [[University of Toronto]] and the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]].((//Erik L. Friesen [profile].// Twitter. Retrieved May 7, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Tamzn))

He received funding for his PhD thesis in the form of the [[Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award]] from the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR).((Friesen, E. L. (2021, April 14). //Declaration of Interest.// Wayback Machine; Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20210727000426/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Declaration-of-Interest_Mental-Health-Working-Group_Erik-Friesen_20210414.pdf))
==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====

Friesen is a former member of the secretariat of the Mental Health Working Group at the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]], where he worked as a research associate.((//About Us.// (2021, June 30). Wayback Machine; Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20210630064946/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#friesen-erik))