Visions of Science Network for Learning
Visions of Science Network for Learning is a Canadian charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario.
History
VOSNL was founded by Francis Jeffers, a member of the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity and a quality control specialist in the pharmaceutical industry.1) 2)
COVID-19
VOSNL received a $50,000 CAD grant in July 2021 from the Government of Canada for a project titled “Vaccine Confidence in Canada: Focus on racialized and low-income communities.”3) 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).4)
Affiliations
Partners
1)
Francis Jeffers, The Canadian Multicultural Inventors Museum. Excellence Conference. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://archive.ph/q3R5X
2)
Khenti, A. (2021). Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity c/o Taibu Community Health Centre (p. 4). City of Toronto. https://web.archive.org/web/20220928212643/https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/hl/comm/communicationfile-132894.pdf
3)
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
4)
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
5)
Partners and Support. Visions of Science. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220928213934/https://www.vosnl.org/partners-and-support