====== University of Ottawa ======

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The **University of Ottawa** is a Canadian public research university in Ottawa, Ontario.

===== History =====

==== COVID-19 ====

The university received a $11,000 CAD grant in July 2021 from the [[Government of Canada]] for a project titled "Vaccine Confidence Workshops & Events for Youth, Teachers and Families."((//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))

===== Affiliations =====

==== Notable Alumni ====

^ Name  ^ Program  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Nili Kaplan-Myrth]]  | Medicine  | -  |

==== Notable Faculty ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Kim Corace]]  | Associate Professor of Psychiatry  | Member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]  |
| [[Jeremy Grimshaw]]  | Professor  | Member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]  |
| [[Paul Hendry]]  | Professor of Cardiac Surgery  | Member of the Council for the [[College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario]]  |
| [[Matthew Tunis]]  | Adjunct Professor  | Executive secretary of the [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization]] (NACI)  |