COVID-19 outreach and research News Archive
UM researchers to advance knowledge of COVID-19 impacts and improve health outcomes
March 12, 2021 —
One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, additional research is needed to understand and address persistent issues related to COVID-19 and the threat of future coronavirus and other infectious disease outbreaks
Marking one year since the WHO declared a global pandemic
March 11, 2021 —
President’s message to faculty and staff on anniversary of remote operations
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM study examines impact of virtual health care
March 9, 2021 —
University of Manitoba researchers are conducting a study to assess the impact that the rapid switch to virtual health-care delivery in the province during the COVID-19 pandemic has had on patients and health-care workers.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
‘Transformative work in real time’
March 3, 2021 —
Long-standing collaborative relationships between a University of Manitoba health institute and Indigenous communities laid the groundwork for UM to support a First Nations-led response to COVID-19, two health leaders said in a recent keynote address.
Research and International
Pandemic fallout
March 1, 2021 —
Newcomers and Indigenous people shoulder heavier burden
Preventing unintended disaster
March 1, 2021 —
A UM team is starting a novel study to see if our cautionary measures are enabling a disaster somewhere else
For the record: Digitizing archives can increase access to information but compromise privacy
March 1, 2021 —
'Given the ubiquity of digital technologies today, creating archives of born-digital records must be our most urgent priority — including records created during the COVID-19 pandemic'
Research and International
On the wing
March 1, 2021 —
How birds changed their migrations during lockdowns
Research and International
Hip to heparin
March 1, 2021 —
A University of Manitoba research team is emerging as a global leader in COVID-19 anticoagulation trials thanks to their innovative, global trial studying different types of heparin, an anticoagulant (blood thinning) and anti-inflammatory drug
Research and International
COVID-19 anxiety in the age of the anthropocene
March 1, 2021 —
Graduate student Sarah Paradis work will show how traditional learning environments, such as schools and classrooms have become impacted by the pandemic