Robert Maunder

Dr. Robert Maunder is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, as well as the Chair of Health and Behaviour and Deputy Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Sinai Health System. He has received COVID-19 funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and sits on the Mental Health Working Group of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Maunder is also conducting COVID-19 research with U of T and Sinai as well as the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network (TIBDN), Unity Health Toronto, and Public Health Canada.

Maunder sits on the Mental Health Working Group on the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.¹⁾

Maunder is employed by Sinai Health System at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is the Chair of Health and Behaviour, as well as Deputy Psychiatrist-in-Chief. His research focuses include working to “Shape public policy with a focus on disease prevention”.²⁾

Maunder is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He previously studied the long-term impact of working during the SARS outbreak on hospital workers.³⁾

Maunder’s COVID-19 related research includes:

• He 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, a network of experts who will work to predict outbreak trajectories for the disease, measure public health interventions and provide real-time advice to policy-makers.”^{4) 5) 6) 7)}
• Maunder is a researcher for the COVID-19 Education Study (CCS-2) under the Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network at Mount Sinai Hospital, the University of Toronto, and Unity Health Toronto funded by Public Health Canada.⁸⁾ The study is examining COVID-19 and teachers and school employees in Ontario.