====== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ======

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The **Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (OST)** is self-described as “a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the [[:COVID-19 pandemic]], to inform Ontario’s response.” They claim to integrate information from “existing scientific tables, Ontario’s universities and agencies, and the best global evidence.”((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved December 13, 2021, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/))

Canadian news outlets and Ontario provincial, regional and municipal governments defer almost exclusively to the instructions and statements provided by the various working groups of the Table.((//Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table | News, Videos & Articles.// Global News; Corus Entertainment Inc. Retrieved January 6, 2022, from https://archive.ph/gzMxp)) The group is largely responsible for draconian and dangerous measures such as lockdowns, forced school and business closures, social distancing, mandatory mask-wearing, mass testing of the healthy, suppression of safe and effective medicines and healthy activities, and reckless mass-vaccination of adults and children.((Crawley, M. (2022, January 6). //As Omicron sweeps across Ontario, Doug Ford’s government braces for impact.// CBC News; CBC/Radio-Canada. https://archive.ph/j7cYn)) ((Behavioural Science Working Group. (2021, December 23). //Ask Ontario’s Science Table: Omicron Edition.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Slide-Deck_Ask-the-SAT_20211223-3.pdf))

[[:Canuck Law]], an investigative blog written by [[:Ronnie Lempert]], contains a wealth of excellent research into the table, also summarized in //[[Inside The Ontario Science Table: The "Independent" Group Pulling Ford's Strings]]//.((Lempert, R. P. A. (2021). //Inside The Ontario Science Table: The “Independent” Group Pulling Ford’s Strings.// Amazon. Independent. https://archive.ph/th7Id)) ((//Ontario Science Table, UN/WHO-IHR.// Canuck Law. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://archive.ph/jrcgT))

The group works closely with the [[:Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table]].((//Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table.// University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://archive.ph/MADth))

===== Conflicts of Interest =====

There are many real, potential and perceived conflicts of interest present among members of the Table, and the Table as a whole.

==== Research ====

Members of the Table have received significant funding to study the effects of the restrictions they helped put in place. 

For example, [[:Linda Mah]], the Co-Chair of the Mental Health Working Group, received money from the [[:Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care]] to "support a research study to assess mental health outcomes in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic," focusing primarily on isolation measures.((Mah, L. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Declaration-of-Interest_Mental-Health-Working-Group_Linda-Mah_20210827.pdf)) Similarly, [[:Paula Rochon]], Chair of the Congregate Care Setting Working Group, received funding to study the implementation of "family presence policies in Ontario long-term care homes" and "Understanding the burden and health system impact of loneliness and social isolation in older adults
in Canada".((Rochon, P. (2021, May 27). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20220108230028/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Congregate-Care-Setting-Working-Group_Paula-Rochon_20210527.pdf)) [[Pat Armstrong]] received similar funding.

==== Antimicrobial Resistance ====

A number of members of the table are strong proponents of [[:antimicrobial resistance]] policies, which involve reducing and limiting the use of antibiotics.

==== Globalism ====

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While the mandate of the Table is claimed to be providing guidance related to the [[:COVID-19]] health crisis, several of the members have close ties to supra-national organizations and global agenda policies that are not necessarily consistent with the preferences of the voting Canadian public.

This includes several direct affiliations with the [[:World Health Organization]], and advocacy for the [[:United Nations]]' [[:Sustainable Development Goals]] in the case of [[:Christopher Mushquash]] and [[:Scott Weese]].((//High-Level Political Forum 2021 (HLPF 2021) .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.// United Nations. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://archive.ph/OqNeU)) ((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved January 23, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#mckenzie-kwame)) ((//Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.// Lakehead University. Retrieved January 26, 2022, from https://archive.ph/HJsfG)) Additionally, [[:Scott Weese]] and [[:Isha Berry]] are advocates for the [[One Health]] concept of unified health between humans, animals and nature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.((Ontario Veterinary College. (2020, October 22). //U of G infectious disease expert named Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow.// University of Guelph. https://archive.ph/PGBej)) ((Ontario Veterinary College. (2021, November 3). //Why A One Health Approach Is Vital In Pandemic Management.// University of Guelph. https://archive.ph/luBix))

===== Controversy =====

==== Conflicting Advice on School Closures ====

The [[:Toronto Sun]] reported that Science Table member [[:David Fisman]] was retained by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario to provide an opposing opinion on school reopenings in a document dated September 2020. Fisman served on the science table at the same time. It’s a situation that one leading expert says is a potential conflict of interest and Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office calls “deeply concerning.”

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“Where a person receives payment for speaking on behalf of a special interest group, it would almost certainly be appropriate to declare this as a potential conflict of interest when working in roles that are even slightly related,” explained Dr. Euzebiusz Jamrozik, from the bioethics research centre at the [[:University of Oxford]], in an email to the Sun.((Furey, A. (2021, January 26). //Science table member paid by teacher union for arguing against school reopenings.// Toronto Sun. https://archive.ph/pXWkP))

This conflicted affiliation is further concerning because the [[:Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan]] (with which the ETFO is surely associated) is a member organization of the [[:World Economic Forum]],((//Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.// World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://archive.ph/arl0l)) and holds financial stakes in several companies that benefit financially from the maintaining of online learning and mandatory masking and vaccination policies.((Ronnie. (2021, March 19). //FCLT Global; World Economic Forum; CPPIB; Ontario Teachers.// Canuck Law. https://canucklaw.ca/fclt-global-world-economic-forum-cppib-ontario-teachers/)) Those companies include [[:Mastercard]], [[:BlackRock]], [[:Blackstone]], [[:3M]] (who manufactures masks), [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Johnson & Johnson]], and many others.((//Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Writ of Memorandus.// (2021, September 10). Peoples of the Salmon. https://peoplesofthesalmon.net/files/ONTARIO-TEACHERS-PENSION-PLAN-WRIT-OF-MANDAMUS.pdf))

==== Alleged Political Influence ====

In August 2021, Fisman resigned from the Science Table.((DeClerq, K. (2021, August 23). //Ontario COVID-19 science table member resigns, alleges that modelling data “projects a grim fall.”// CTV News Toronto. DeClerq, K. (2021, August 23). Ontario COVID-19 science table member resigns, alleges that modelling data “projects a grim fall.” CTV News Toronto. https://archive.ph/y17Gj)) The reason for his resignation was allegedly that the group was sitting on data that predicted "a grim Fall" for 2021, and that politics were influencing decision making as well as the way in which information was shared with the public.((Fisman, D. (2021, August 23). //It is with mixed emotions that I have decided to resign from Ontario’s science and modeling tables.  I wish every success to the colleagues who remain on these tables. Ontario needs a public health system that is arm’s length from politics.// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://archive.ph/1VUVn))

===== Members =====

This is a developing list of all members associated with the Table, including those who are no longer listed on the official website. It is in the process of being converted in a table. Thank you for your patience.

^ Name  ^ Group  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Zainab Abdurrahman]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]] and other pharmaceutical companies.  |
| [[Samantha Akingbola]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table  | -  |
| [[Upton Allen]]  | Co-Chair of the Table; Behavioural Science Working Group  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Roche]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]], and other pharmaceutical companies.  |
| [[Vanessa Allen]]  | Member  | Medical Director of the Provincial COVID-19 Diagnostic Network for [[Ontario Health]].((//COVID-19 Test Collection and Analysis.// (2021, October 12). Ontario Health. https://www.ontariohealth.ca/COVID-19/testing-analysis))  |
| [[Nisha Andany]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Janssen]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Gilead Sciences]].((Andany, N. (2021, August 23). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Drugs-and-Biologics-Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-Working-Group_Nisha-Andany_20210823.pdf)) ((Andany, N. (2021, May 25). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Drugs-and-Biologics-Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-Working-Group_Nisha-Andany_20210525.pdf)) ((Andany, N. (2021, February 8). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Drugs-and-Biologics-Clinical-Practice-Guidelines-Working-Group_Nisha-Andany.pdf))  |
| [[Pat Armstrong]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | Funded by the [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC) to study families and [[COVID-19]] in long-term care.((Armstrong, P. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (p. 1). https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Declaration-of-Interest_Congregate-Care-Setting-Working-Group_Pat-Armstrong_20210821.pdf)) |
| [[Trevor Arnason]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group (resigned)  | Associate Medical Officer of Health for [[Ottawa Public Health]].((//Trevor Arnason.// LinkedIn. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-arnason-0252a4b5/)) Has appeared in promotional materials for [[COVID-19 vaccines]].((Ottawa Public Health. (2021, January 27). //Why get vaccinated against COVID-19? Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health, explains… [Video]// Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ottawahealth/videos/why-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19-dr-trevor-arnason-associate-medical-officer-/682977669047955/)) ((Pringle, J. (2021, May 5). //“Right in our wheelhouse”: Ottawa Public Health planning to administer COVID-19 vaccine to children 12 and up.// CTV News; Bell Media. https://archive.ph/9xABq)) |
| [[Sarah Baert]]  | Secretariat  | [[American College of Animal Welfare]]  |
| [[Kali Barrett]]  | Secretariat  | [[University Health Network]]  |
| [[Isha Berry]]  | Secretariat of the Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security]], [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]]  |
| [[Martin Betts]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[Scarborough Health Network]]  |	
| [[Andrew Blackburn]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]]  |
| [[Pavlos Bobos]]  | Secretariat  | [[St. Michael’s Hospital]]  |
| [[Nicolas Bodmer]]  | Secretariat  | [[Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen]]  |
| [[Isaac Bogoch]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[University of Toronto]], [[Toronto General Hospital]], [[Harvard University]]  |
| [[Karen Born]]  | Secretariat  | [[Choosing Wisely Canada]]  |
| [[Peter Braunberger]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[Northern Ontario School of Medicine]]  |
| [[Adalsteinn Brown]]  | Former Co-chair of the Table; Behavioural Science Working Group  | On the Board of Directors for [[Ontario Health]],((//Board of Directors.// Ontario Health. Retrieved May 15, 2021, from https://archive.ph/vQXKp)) Dean of the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]],((//Adalsteinn Steini Brown | Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 22, 2022, from https://archive.ph/hR1oD)) and director of the Institute for Pandemics at the [[University of Toronto]].((//Institute for Pandemics.// Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University of Toronto. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/Lham0)) |
| [[Kevin Antoine Brown]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Ontario]]  |
| [[Judy Buchan]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | Director of Public Health Emergencies at the [[Region of Peel]].  |
| [[Sarah Buchan]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[Public Health Ontario]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]]  |
| [[Rachel Burns]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Carleton University]]  |
| [[Stephanie Carlin]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[Hamilton Health Sciences]]  |
| [[Swetaprovo Chaudhuri]]  | Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | [[Institute for Aerospace Studies]], [[University of Toronto]], [[Princeton University]], [[Indian Institute of Science]]  |
| [[Victoria Chechulina]]  | Secretariat  | [[University of Toronto]] [[uniiversity_of_toronto:Global Ideas Institute]]  |
| [[Chiachen Cheng]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[Northern Ontario School of Medicine]], [[St. Joseph’s Care Group Thunder Bay]], [[Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre]]  |
| [[Yoojin Choi]]  | Secretariat  | [[University of British Columbia]]  |
| [[William Ciccotelli]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[McMaster University]], [[St. Mary’s General Hospital]], [[Grand River General Hospital]]  |
| [[Lauren Cipriano]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ivey Business School]], [[University of Western Ontario]], [[World Health Organization]], [[US Veterans Health Administration]], [[US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]], the [[US Institute for Clinical and Economic Review]], [[Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Heath]]  |
| [[Eyal Cohen]]  | External Author  | [[Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement]] (CFHI), [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research]], [[Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention]] (CPOP), [[Children's Hospital at Westmead]], [[Commonwealth Fund]], [[Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Health Children]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]], [[Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health]], [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]] (OST), [[Ontario Public Drug Program]], [[Provincial Council of Maternal and Child Health]], [[PSI Foundation]], [[Queen's University]], [[SickKids]], [[SickKids Research Institute]], [[University of Toronto]], [[University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute]] (DSI)((//Eyal Cohen | SickKids Directory.// SickKids. Retrieved October 18, 2022, from https://archive.ph/xlMVA)) ((Ng, V., Science, M., Feld, J., Shah, H., Bitnun, A., Bourns, L., Campigotto, A., Cohen, E., Gubbay, J., Jimenez-Rivera, C., Orkin, J., Razak, F., Saunders, A., Sayed, B., Salvadori, M., Yaffe, B., Zygmunt, A., & Allen, U. (2022). //Severe Acute Hepatitis in Children of Unknown Etiology.// Science Briefs of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2022.03.63.1.0))  |
| [[Kim Corace]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[The Royal]], [[University of Ottawa]], [[Carleton University]], [[Canadian Psychological Association]]  |
| [[Deborah Cook]]  | Member  | [[McMaster University]], [[St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton]]  |
| [[Andrew Costa]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[McMaster University]], [[St. Joseph's Health System]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES)  |
| [[Troy Day]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Queen's University]]  |
| [[Laura Desveaux]]  | Member  | [[Trillium Health Partners]], [[Women's College Hospital]], [[University of Toronto]], [[Women Who Lead]], [[Institute for Better Health]]  |
| [[David Dozois]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[University of Western Ontario]], [[Mental Health Research Canada]]  |
| [[Vinita Dubey]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | Member of [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization|NACI]].((National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI). (2021, October). //Advisory Committee Statement (ACS): Recommendations on the use of COVID-19 vaccines.// Public Health Agency of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/recommendations-use-covid-19-vaccines/recommendations-use-covid-19-vaccines-en.pdf)) Associate Medical Officer of Health for [[public_health_agencies:Canada:Ontario:Toronto Public Health]].((Dalla Lana School of Public Health. (2016, September 26). //Dubey, Vinita.// Retrieved November 3, 2021, from https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/dubey-vinita/)) Funded through several organizations by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]], and others.  |
| [[David Earn]]  | Member; Chair of the Modelling Consensus Table  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Gerald Evans]]  | Member and Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Queen's University]], [[Kingston Health Sciences Centre]]  |
| [[Leandre Fabrigar]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Queen's University]]  |
| [[David Fisman]]  | Member (resigned)  | Paid by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]] to advise on [[COVID-19]] related projects.((Fisman, D. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_David-Fisman2.pdf))  |
| [[Patrick Feng]]  | Observer  | -  |
| [[Erik Friesen]]  | Secretariat, Research Associate  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Evgenia Gatov]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | -  |
| [[Jennifer Gibson]]  | Member  | [[University of Toronto]], [[Sun Life Financial]]  |
| [[Sudeep Gill]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[Queen's University]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES)  |
| [[Wayne Gold]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | -  |
| [[Christopher Graham]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[Trillium Health Partners]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Anna Greenberg]]  | Member  | [[Health Quality Ontario]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Jeremy Grimshaw]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]], [[University of Ottawa]]  |
| [[Helen Groves]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group Observer  | [[SickKids]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Anne Hayes]]  | Member, Behavioural Science Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Evidence Synthesis Network]], [[Ontario Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care]]  |
| [[Andrew Healey]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Michael Hillmer]]  | Member, Congregate Care Setting Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ontario Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Kimia Honarmand]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[University of Western Ontario]]  |
| [[Jessica Hopkins]]  | Member  | Funded by the [[World Health Organization]] and [[gavi|Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance]]((Santesso, N., Mustafa, R. A., Schünemann, H. J., Arbyn, M., Blumenthal, P. D., Cain, J., Chirenje, M., Denny, L., De Vuyst, H., Eckert, L. O., Forhan, S. E., Franco, E. L., Gage, J. C., Garcia, F., Herrero, R., Jeronimo, J., Lu, E. R., Luciani, S., Quek, S. C., & Sankaranarayanan, R. (2016). //World Health Organization Guidelines for treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2-3 and screen-and-treat strategies to prevent cervical cancer.// International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: The Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 132(3), 252–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.07.038))  |
| [[Julian House]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Ontario Public Service]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Lianne Jeffs]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Aaron Jones]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES)  |
| [[Jennie Johnstone]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[peter_juni|Peter Jüni]] | Scientific Director (former), Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Abbott]] Vascular, [[pharmaceutical_companies:Amgen]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Appili Therapeutics]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:AVA Pharmaceuticals]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Biosensors International]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Biotronik]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Eli Lilly]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Fresenius]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:The Medicines Company]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Terumo]].((Jüni, P. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_Peter-Juni7_20210702.pdf))  |
| [[Melanie Kohn]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[University of Toronto]]  |	
| [[Adam Komorowski]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group Observer  | -  |
| [[Fiona Kouyoumdjian]]  | Member  | Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health, [[Ontario Ministry of Health]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES)  |
| [[Carsten Krueger]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group Observer  | -  |
| [[Paul Kurdyak]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[Ontario Health]], [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]] (CAMH), [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Jeff Kwong]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[Toronto Western Family Health Team]], [[Sunnybrook Research Institute]], [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]]  |
| [[Bradley Langford]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | Pharmacist consultant at [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Ontario]], [[Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre]]  |
| [[Audrey Laporte]]  | Member  | [[University of Toronto]], Director of the [[Canadian Centre for Health Economics]]  |
| [[John Lavis]]  | Member  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Gerald Lebovic]]  | Secretariat  | [[St. Michael’s Hospital]], [[Unity Health Toronto]], [[University of Toronto]]  |	
| [[Pamela Leece]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[Public Health Ontario]], [[Women's College Hospital]], [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Elizabeth Leung]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[St. Michael’s Hospital]], [[Unity Health Toronto]], [[Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute]]  |
| [[Brian Lewis]]  | Member of the Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ontario Ministry of Finance]], [[Ontario Ministry of Labour]], [[Wilfrid Laurier University]], [[Brock University]], [[University of Alberta]]  |
| [[Xena Li]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group Observer  | -  |
| [[Carson Lo]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group Observer  | -  |
| [[Linda Mah]]	 | Member and Co-Chair of the Mental Health Working Group  | Received funding to study the impact of [[COVID-19]] and physical distancing measures on older adults' [[mental health]], funded by the [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]] Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) Alternative Funding Plan (AFP) Innovation Fund.  |
| [[Kamil Malikov]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Toronto]]  |
| [[Antonina Maltsev]]  | Secretariat and Project Manager  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]], [[North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies]], [[World Bank]]  |
| [[Doug Manuel]]  | Member and Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[University of Ottawa]], [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]]  |
| [[Robert Maunder]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | Received $498,900.00 from the [[Government of Canada]] via [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) from a COVID-19 Research Fund “that will go towards setting up the [[COVID-19 Mathematical Modelling Rapid Response Task Force]]."  |
| [[Roisin McElroy]]  | Secretariat  | [[St. Joseph’s Health Centre]], [[Unity Health Toronto]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Allison McGeer]]  | Member  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Seqirus]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Medicago]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Janssen]], and [[pharmaceutical_companies:AstraZeneca]].((See [[Allison McGeer]] page for citations.))  |
| [[Kwame McKenzie]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | Consultant for the [[World Health Organization]].  |
| [[Dale McKeown]]  | Member  | [[Ontario Ministry of Health]], [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]], [[Toronto Public Health]]  |
| [[John McLaughlin]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health]], [[Public Health Ontario]], [[International Agency for Research on Cancer]], [[Cancer Care Ontario]], [[Ontario Institute for Cancer Research]], [[Mount Sinai Hospital]]  |
| [[Ali Merali]]  | Observer | -  |
| [[Kate Miller]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Sharmistha Mishra]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[St. Michael's Hospital]], [[CanCOGen]], [[World Health Organization]]  |
| [[Justin Morgenstern]]  | Secretariat, Senior Research Associate  | [[University of Toronto]], [[Markham Stouffville Hospital]], [[First10EM]], [[Emergency Medicine Cases]], [[Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine]]  |
| [[Andrew Morris]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | Chair of [[Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America]], which received $50,000.00 from [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]].  |
| [[Rhiannon Mosher]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Ontario Public Service]]  |	
| [[Mila Motrich]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | -  |
| [[Samira Mubareka]]  | Member  | [[Sunnybrook Research Institute]]  |	
| [[Laveena Munshi]]  | Member  | [[University of Toronto]], [[Critical Care Oncologic Investigative Network]], [[Sinai Health System]], [[University Health Network]]  |
| [[Michelle Murti]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[University of Toronto]], Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health at the [[Ontario Ministry of Health]], [[Public_health_agencies:canada:Public Health Ontario]], [[public_health_agencies:canada:Fraser Health]]  |
| [[Kumar Murty]]  | Former Co-Chair of the Modelling Consensus Table  | Received a $666,667.00 grant from the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) for the purpose of creating “the COVID-19 Mathematical Modelling Rapid Response Task Force". Received $3,000,000.00 from the [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada]] (NSERC) for [[COVID-19]] and future pandemic preparedness.  |
| [[Christopher Mushquash]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | Proponent of the [[United Nations]]' [[Sustainable Development Goals]].  |	
| [[Sarah Nayani]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table; former Secretariat of the MCT  | [[Fields Institute of Research in Mathematical Sciences]], [[National Health Service]], [[Public Health Ontario]], [[Mount Sinai Hospital]]  |
| [[Ullanda Niel]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | -  |	
| [[Caroline Nott]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | -  |	
| [[Braden O’Neill]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | -  |	
| [[Ayodele Odutayo]]  | Secretariat  | -  |
| [[Shahla Oskooei]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table  | [[World Health Organization]]  |
| [[Menaka Pai]]  | Co-Chair of the Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bayer]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]] and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]]. Held shares in [[medical_technology_companies:Medtronic]].  |	
| [[Irene Papst]]  | Observer of the Modelling Consensus Table  | -  |
| [[Samir Patel]]  | Member  | [[public_health_agencies:Canada:Public Health Ontario]]  |
| [[Anna Perkhun]]  | Project and Research Assistant, Secretariat  | -  |	
| [[Bill Praamsma]]  | Member of the Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | [[Ontario Ministry of Finance]], [[Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities]]  |
| [[Justin Presseau]]  | Chair of the Behavioural Science Working Group  | Member of the [[Ontario Immunization Advisory Committee]]. Received funding from the [[Ottawa Hospital Foundation]] via the COVID-19 Emergency Research Seed Fund as a Primary Investigator on a study investigating face touching behaviour.  |
| [[Sumit Raybardhan]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[North York General Hospital]]  |
| [[Fahad Razak]]  | Scientific Director; Member (former)  | [[St. Michael's Hospital]]  |
| [[Robert Reid]]  | Member  | Chief Scientist at [[Trillium Health Partners]]  |
| [[Melody Ren]]  | Observer in the Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | -  | 
| [[Paul Ritvo]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | -  |
| [[Joanne Roberti]]  | Secretariat  | [[St. Michael's Hospital]]  |	
| [[Paula Rochon]]  | Chair of the Congregate Care Setting Working Group, Modelling Consensus Table  | Vice-Chair of the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) Institute of Aging Advisory Board. Received an Innovation Grant from the [[Peter Munk Cardiac Center]] at the [[University Health Network]], for a research project called “Analytic approaches to understanding Covid-19 infections and outcomes in the population”.  |
| [[Laura Rosella]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[Banting and Best Diabetes Centre]], [[Trillium Health Partners]], [[Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence]]  |
| [[Noel Rosen]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | Community family physician.  |
| [[Beate Sander]]  | Member, Modelling Consensus Table (and former co-chair)  | Received funding from [[pharmaceutical_companies:Roche]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sanofi]], the [[World Health Organization]], the [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Agency of Canada]] and others.  |
| [[Rachel Savage]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[Women's College Hospital]]  |
| [[Michael Schull]]  | Member  | [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES)  |
| [[Brian Schwartz]]  | Co-Chair, Modelling Consensus Table  | Funded by [[public_health_agenics:Canada:Public Health Ontario]], and the [[public_health_agencies:canada:Public Health Agency of Canada]]. Former director of the [[Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre]]. Coauthors include [[Bonnie Henry]] and [[Eileen de Villa]].  |
| [[Premy Selvakumar]]  | Secretariat for the Behavioural Science Working Group, Administrative Assistant  | [[Public Health Ontario]]  |
| [[Donna Seymour]]  | Secretariat for the Congregate Care Setting Working Group (former) | [[Women's College Hospital]]  |
| [[Rishi Shah]]  | Member of the Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | [[CanCOVID]], [[medical_technology_companies:Tidbit]]  |
| [[Sparsh Shah]]  | Member of the Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | [[University of Toronto]], [[medical_technology_companies:Tidbit]]  |
| [[Gilla Shapiro]]  | Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[University Health Network]] and [[World Health Organization]]  |
| [[Kathryn H. Short]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[School Mental Health Ontario]]  |
| [[Arjumand Siddiqi]]  | Member  | [[university_of_toronto:Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy]], [[SickKids]], [[World Health Organization]], [[World Bank]], and [[UNICEF]].  |
| [[Chris Simpson]]  | Member  | [[Queen's University]]  |
| [[Shuruthi Sivadas]]  | Secretariat (former)  | [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Arthur Slutsky]]  | Member  | [[St. Michael's Hospital]], [[Unity Health Toronto]]  |
| [[Janet Smylie]]  | Member  | [[St. Michael's Hospital]]  |
| [[Nathan Stall]]  | Secretariat and Assistant Scientific Director  | [[Sinai Health System]], [[University Health Network]], [[Women's College Research Institute]], [[Women's College Hospital]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Robert Steiner]]  | Secretariat and Behavioural Science Working Group  | Employed by [[Boston Consulting Group]], originator of the [[Public_health_agencies:Public Health Agency of Canada]], [[Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation]], [[university_of_toronto:Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy]], and Mentor for the [[Rhodes Trust]] at the [[University of Oxford]].  |
| [[Thomas Stewart]]  | Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | [[St. Joseph’s Health System]], [[Niagara Health System]], [[St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton]], [[Haldimand War Memorial Hospital]], [[Mount Sinai Hospital]], [[University Health Network]], [[University of Toronto]], [[McMaster University]]  |
| [[Gillian Strudwick]]  | Mental Health Working Group  | [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]]  |
| [[Peter Tanuseputro]]  | Congregate Care Setting Working Group  | [[University of Ottawa]]  |	
| [[Cinthia Tao]]  | Secretariat for the Mental Health Working Group  | [[University of Toronto]]  |	
| [[Elaine Toombs]]  | Secretariat of the Mental Health Working Group  | [[Dilico Anishinabek Family Care]]  |	
| [[Kathy Torkos]]  | Secretariat of the Mental Health Working Group  | [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Ontario]]  |
| [[Ashleigh Tuite]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Guelph]]  |
| [[Liliana Volnikova]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[Revera]]  |
| [[Anu Wadhwa]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[SickKids]]  |
| [[Jennifer Walker]]  | Modelling Consensus Table (former)  | [[Six Nations of the Grand River]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[Laurentian University]], [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Tania Watts]]  | Member  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Ashini Weerasinghe]]  | Secretariat of the Behavioural Science Working Group  | [[Public_health_agencies:Public Health Ontario]]  |
| [[Scott Weese]]  | Member  | Funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Zoetis]] (a [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]] company), [[pharmaceutical_companies:Vetoquinol]], and [[pharmaceutical_companies:Mars Incorporated]], including for [[COVID-19]] related talks.  |
| [[Xiaolin Wei]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[International Union Against TB and Lung Disease]]  |
| [[Sarah Wilson]]  | Member  | [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization]] (NACI), [[Public Health Ontario]], [[Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Jianhong Wu]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[York University]]  |
| [[Peter Wu]]  | Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | [[University Health Network]], [[Sinai Health System]]  |
| [[Diana Yan]]  | Secretariat  | [[University of Toronto]]  |
| [[Nancy Young]]  | Mental Health  | [[CHEO Research Institute]], [[SickKids]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]]  |
| [[Emre Yurga]]  | Modelling Consensus Table  | [[Ontario Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care]]  |
| [[Alice Zhabokritsky]]  | Observer for the Drugs & Biologics Clinical Practice Guidelines Working Group  | -  |	
| [[Lynn Zhu]]  | Secretariat for the Mental Health Working Group  | [[Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences]]  |