====== McMaster University ======

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**McMaster University** is a Canadian public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario. It has received millions of dollars in funding from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], and has participated in several key aspects of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] including [[COVID-19 vaccines|vaccine]] development and studies on repurposed drugs.

===== Affiliations =====

==== Alumni ====

^ Name  ^ Program  ^ Specialty  ^ Notes  ^
| Dr. [[Mary Bell]]  | MD and Postgraduate Training  | Design, measurement and evaluation in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics  | [[College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario]], [[Sunnybrook Research Institute]]  |
| [[Peter Sloly]]  | Bachelor of Arts  | Sociology  | Former chief of police for the [[Ottawa Police Service]]((Osman, L., & Trinh, J. (2019, August 25). //Peter Sloly named Ottawa’s new police chief.// CBC News; CBC/Radio-Canada. https://archive.ph/cotpV))  |

==== Staff ====

^ Name  ^ Department  ^ Title  ^ Notes  ^
| Dr. [[Zainab Abdurrahman]]  | Pediatrics  | Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor  | Member of the Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group on the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 19, 2021, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#abdurrahman-zainab))  |
| Dr. [[John Lavis]]  | Health Evidence and Impact  | Professor  | Former member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]  |
| Dr. [[Karen Saperson]]  | Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences  | Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Education  | Program Director, Geriatric Psychiatry and Academic Head, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry. University Academic Representative with the [[College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario]] for [[McMaster University]].((Nisbett, M. (2017). //Dr. Karen Saperson — 2017 AMS/Donald Wilson award recipient.// Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. https://archive.ph/PKMmP))  |

===== Funding =====

==== Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ====

The [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] funded McMaster through several grants relevant to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] from 2015-2021:

  * $100,000.00 USD awarded to multiple projects to “fund studies that will facilitate research collaboration among researchers to address major COVID-19 research questions and reduce the harm of the current COVID-19 pandemic, while fostering global, multi-disciplinary collaborations.”((McMaster University. (2021, January 8). //Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science.// Research & Innovation. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/2jvyV)) Research areas include:
    * Natural disease history, epidemiology and transmission
    * Vaccines and prophylaxis
    * Infection, prevention and control
    * Therapeutics
    * Clinical management

  * $12,392,744.00 awarded “to identify and address ethical challenges, ethics-related risk, and policy gaps that have the potential to undermine the impact of potential life-saving technologies and interventions in global health and development research” from November 2019 until January 2028.((Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (2019, November). //McMaster University.// Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/76GuD))

  * $1,993,992.00 awarded “to find new lead molecules against diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poorest populations” from October 2018 until January 2023.((Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (2018, October). //McMaster University.// Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/fQJzp))

  * $6,616,077.00 awarded “to identify and address ethical challenges, ethics-related risk, and policy gaps that have the potential to undermine the impact of potential life-saving technologies and interventions in [[global health]] and development research” from June 2015 until July 2021.((Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (2015, June). //McMaster University.// Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/KfW2j))

Additional grants from the Gates Foundation are currently being offered to McMaster:

  * Up to $200,000.00 USD to explore using “Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens”. The grant period is for up to 24 months and is co-administered with the [[Chan Zuckerberg Biohub]] and [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]]. The intended result of the funding is to “lead to a network of pathogen detection nodes that could provide increased global transparency into regional pathogen distribution in an accurate and timely manner, and in ultimate support of a global [[pathogen]] [[surveillance]] network.”((McMaster University. (2021, November 19). //Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Grand Challenges, Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens.// Research & Innovation. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/UBq5b))

  * Up to $200,000.00 USD to “identify areas for transformational innovation in service of national NTD [neglected tropical disease] programs” in Africa.((McMaster University. (2021, November 19). //Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Grand Challenges, Innovations in Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases.// Research & Innovation. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/IDp9n/))

  * Up to $500,000.00 USD to increase the participation in “Digital Health Services for Pregnant Women to Support Antenatal Risk Stratification in Sub-Saharan Africa”.((McMaster University. (2021, November 19). Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Grand Challenges, //Digital Health Services for Pregnant Women to Support Antenatal Risk Stratification in Sub-Saharan Africa.// Research & Innovation. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/O1R1a))

  * Up to $3,000,000.00 USD to build “a stronger [[malaria]] mathematical modeling ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa”.((McMaster University. (2021, November 19). //Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Grand Challenges, Building Malaria Modeling Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa.// Research & Innovation. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/4FNbz))

==== Government of Canada ====

=== COVID-19 ===

McMaster received two grants in July 2021 from the [[Government of Canada]] for a project titled "Encouraging vaccine confidence among pregnant and breastfeeding Canadians" and a second project titled "Immune Nations: The Vaccine Project."((Based on publication date on the Funding Decisions page)) ((//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)) The total amount awarded was $95,500. 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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