Kumar Murty

Vijaya Kumar Murty, PhD, FRSC, FNAS, is a former member of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.

While he is not listed on the About Us page, Murty is an external contributing member of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. He co-authored an October 2021 science brief titled “COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Ontario and Strategies to Support Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Among at Risk Populations”.¹⁾

Murty has received COVID-19 related funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), including studies on the “mathematics of COVID-19” and “Mathematics for Public Health and Variants of Concern”.²⁾

Murty received $3,000,000.00 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through their Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative (EIDMI), to “bridge the gap between mathematical research and real public health issues. The team will seek to produce models that are effective, practical and reliable for applications to public health issues for COVID-19 as well as boost Canada’s future pandemic preparedness.”³⁾

Murty received a portion of $1.23 million in funding from the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund through their Global Challenge Award. The project is called “Scalable architecture for smart villages.” The team is comprised of U of T political science and law researchers, as well as collaborators from Process Research Ortech Inc., the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, the government of India, and the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore.⁴⁾