Research is one way to fight against COVID-19, but that costs money, so a new initiative has been created to provide valuable funding for these projects.
The Nova Scotia COVID-19 Research Coalition was pulled together very quickly in response to the ongoing pandemic and the difficult situations it has fostered.
The NSHA, QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, Research Nova Scotia, Dartmouth General Hospital, IWK Health Centre and the IWK Foundation raised $1.5 million for COVID-19 research in just over two weeks .
“That has never happened before. This, we think will create our future, in terms of partners coming together in these ways,” said Dr. Gail Tomblin-Murphy, Vice President and CNE, Research, Innovation & Discovery, NSHA.
The newly-formed coalition had sent out a call for proposals to researchers and received 250 in response. Through a peer review process 40 were picked to receive funding across social science, health system improvements, discovery science and clinical science projects.
The research is intended to help Nova Scotians as a whole but it is also hoped that it will help on the national and global level as well, said Tomblin-Murphy.
The list of recipients can be viewed here https://www.nshealth.ca/sites/nshealth.ca/files/nova_scotia_covid-19_health_research_coalition_covid-19_funding_recipients_list.pdf
