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Since the beginning of June, more than 7,000 refugees and displaced persons have arrived in the African country of Uganda, the latest violence fleeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“Even in the midst of a pandemic, we see people being displaced,” says the University of Toronto’s Carmen Logie, an associate professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.
Logie’s usual research focus is on understanding and developing interventions to address stigma and other social factors associated with HIV and sexually transmitted infections. She has long placed a special emphasis on refugees and displaced persons in countries like Haiti and Uganda.
“We already have a review in Kampala on urban refugees, but we had to suspend it when COVID-19 forced everyone to isolate themselves,” says Logie, Canada’s President of Research on Global Equity in Health and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations. “Our network partners in Kampala have been familiar with the lack of data applicable to the prevention of COVID-19 among other young people in their language. We, using social media equipment will be an innovative and effective way to be informed about your reports and wisdom about the virus and provide them with the data they need”.
Logie’s study team is one of 139 in Canada with a percentage of more than $109 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IRSC), awarded as a component of its investment competition for immediate studies. Includes 8 groups of the U of T and 18 of the university’s component hospitals. All in COVID-19 studies.
“The University of Toronto is grateful to CHRD for this vital investment, which will enable our researchers to contribute to the global effort to perceive COVID-19,” says university professor Ted Sargent, vice president of research and innovation at the university. Toronto and strategic initiatives. “It should be noted that this investment focuses on projects, such as Professor Logie’s, where there will be collaboration with researchers from low- and middle-income countries.”
Logie works with Richard Lester, a professor at the University of British Columbia, and Gabrielle Serafini, who developed WelTel, a text messaging app that is helping healthcare professionals with patients.
There are about 1.4 million refugees in Uganda, the largest refugee host country in sub-Saharan Africa, 80,000 of which in Kampala.
Logie points out that adolescents and other young people account for almost a part of the world’s population of refugees and displaced persons.
“In humanitarian situations, other people’s wishes are not understood or fulfilled,” she says. “This is also true in pandemics and, in particular, with other young people and adolescents. For example, we found that hand hygiene studies in Uganda were not conducted with adolescents. They targeted adults and children.”
“We know that teens have their own reports and challenges, so we want to perceive them and allow them to explain themselves.”
With this in mind, Logie, his collaborators at UBC and refugee agencies at the apartment in Kampala will adapt the WelTel generation to engage refugee youth and adolescents. The goal, Says Logie, is to help them “talk about the effect of COVID-19 on their lives.” We’ll extend an organization chat app to send data and allow other young people to apply this data to their lives. »»
While the pandemic has exacerbated disorders such as isolation and poverty around the world, it has an effect on the logie study population in Uganda that has been particularly severe.
“In refugee camps in northern Uganda, for example, the only places where they had to interact with others and remain busy in the face of widespread unemployment were places like churches, networking centers and shops,” he says. “But now that COVID-19 has forced others to stay at home or in refugee camps, they are suffering with isolation.”
Equally concerned is having an effect on food insecurity.
“For young refugees in Kampala, before COVID-19, we discovered that 70% did not have enough to eat. Now our spouse agencies say it’s even worse with the lockdown that doesn’t allow other people to work,” Logie says.
“This is true all over the world, however, among refugees in Kampala, they want to make cash every day until that day. The effect of confinement is therefore normal: it puts other people in another size of poverty.”
The following researchers from the University of Toronto and its spouse hospitals have obtained CRSC investments for COVID-19-like projects:
Philip Awadalla, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; department of molecular genetics in the Faculty of Medicine; Surveilling Prospective Population Cohorts for COVID19 Prevalence and Outcomes in Canada (SUPPORT-Canada)
Angela Cheung, University Health Network; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)
Vladimir Dzavik, University Health Network; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; Semaglutide to myocardia-related lesions in patients with COVID-19 (SEMPATICO): a randomized exploratory controlled clinical trial
Andrea Gershon, Sunnybrook Research Institute; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; CovidFree@Home: Development and Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model of deterioration in Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19 Who Are Managing at Home
Daniel Grace, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Engage-COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Study of Biomedical, Behavioural, and Psychosocial Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Canada
Astrid Guttmann, Hospital for Sick Children; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Deferred Care Outcomes in Canadian Children and Youth: Measuring and Mitigating Risk During COVID-19
Joanna Henderson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; department of psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine; Youth Mental Health and Substance Use in the Context of COVID-19: A Rapid Response Multi-component Program of Youth-engaged Research and Action
Angela Jerath, Sunnybrook Research Institute; department of anesthesiology and pain medicine in the Faculty of Medicine; Sedating With Volatile Anesthetic Agents in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients in ICU: Effects on Ventilatory Parameters and Survival (the SAVE-ICU trial)
Kevin Kain, University Health Network; department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Faculty of Medicine; A Randomized Trial to Determine the Effect of Vitamin D and Zinc Supplementation for Improving Treatment Outcomes Among COVID-19 Patients in Mumbai, India
Murray Krahn, University Health Network; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; The Response of Provincial Health Systems to COVID-19: Service Provision and Costs Across Health Sectors, First Nations and Other Populations
Douglas Lee, University Health Network; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Improving Canadian Outcomes Research on the Novel SARS-CoV-2 Using Analytics: The Corona Consortium
Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Sinai Health System; department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Faculty of Medicine; Implementation of Serological and Molecular Tools to Inform COVID-19 Patient Management
Christoph Licht, hospital for children with health problems; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology of the Faculty of Medicine; A central role of the vascular endothelium in the pathogenesis of COVID-19
Jun Liu, department of molecular genetics in the Faculty of Medicine; Development of Safe and Effective Vaccines Against COVID-19
Carmen Logie, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Service; Kukaa Salama (Staying Safe): a pre-social whatsApp trial to develop COVID-19 prevention practices with urban refugees and displaced youth in Kampala, Uganda
David McMillen, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, T Mississauga’s U; Development of a yeast-based immunoessai for SARS-CoV-2 serological tests for cheap production
Sharmistha Mishra, St. Michael’s Hospital; IHPME in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Evaluating the Differential Impact of What We Have Done As We Prioritize What to Do Next: A Multi-Provincial Intervention Modeling Study Using Population-Based Data
Peter Newman, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work; An International Multi-site, Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Knowledge and Protective Behaviors, and Reduce Pandemic Stress Among Diverse LGBT+ People
Deborah O’Connor, Sinai Health System; Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine; Can COVID-19 and maternal antibodies opposed to SARS-CoV-2 be transmitted to human milk? Implications for breastfeeding and the breast milk bank
Keith Pardee, Leslie Dan School of Pharmacy; Portable and reasonable device for decentralized diagnosis of COVID-19 for Canada, Colombia and Ecuador
Robert Rottapel, University Health Network; Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine; Development of a predictive serological for cytopathogenic autoantibodies in patients with COVID-19
Darrel Tan, Toronto Health Unit; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; COVID-19 ring prevention trial with Lopinavir / ritonavir (CORIPREV-LR)
Amol Verma, Toronto Health Unit; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; COVID-19 hospital analysis laboratory: improvement of clinical, organisational and systemic reaction to COVID-19
Tania Watts, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine; Towards comprehensive adaptive immunity to SARS-CoV-2
Daniel Werb, Toronto Health Unit; IHPME at Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Rapid assessment of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and reaction on clinical and social outcomes, use of the service, and the source of unregulated drugs for other people using drugs in Toronto
Jia Xue, Inwentash-Factor Social Work School: Largest COVID-19 Domestic Violence Quarantine Threat in Canada: Strengthening Social Media Collaborations between Nonprofits to Save Lives
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