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Automated escalation and incident management in healthcare during mass casualties and pandemic events (Part 2)

In healthcare, communication and clear roles and responsibilities are critical in delivering care to patients. This is difficult to achieve in the best of times; during pandemics and mass casualty events, communication is the first thing to fail, leading to inefficiency, confusion, and ultimately harm to patients. This project aims to develop an automated system that escalates critical events to the required healthcare providers in a reliable and closed-loop manner. This would replace the current manual and convoluted process in place at most hospitals, which is slow, error-prone, and often ineffective.
The interns will be involved in designing a user interface that requires minimal input, and a backend logic and algorithm that can route information to those who need to know. In the event that certain providers or communication methods are unavailable, the system will be able to adapt and escalate the urgency to find proxies and other cross-covering providers.
With the development of these systems, Hypercare will be able to strengthen its product line and value proposition to larger and more complex healthcare systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Jones

Student:

John McArdle

Partner:

Hypercare Inc.

Discipline:

Design

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

OCAD University

Program:

Accelerate

Towards disability inclusive COVID-19 policy

Youth with disabilities and their caregivers are disproportionately affected both by the COVID-19 pandemic and the policy measures that are adopted in response. Given the increased risk for this vulnerable population, intentionally planning and co-designing policy to meet the needs of youth with disabilities in emergency preparedness efforts is critical. Unfortunately, there is inadequate data collection and insufficient COVID-19 emergency planning and response for youth with disabilities. This knowledge gap means consideration of health and social policy implications specific to the needs and experiences of youth with disabilities and their families are lacking.
This project aims to facilitate a disability-inclusive pandemic response identifying ways governments can engage community partner organizations representing persons with disabilities while simultaneously developing community-based solutions to enhance their capacity to cope with outbreaks. The partners will benefit from the value addition of interns supporting their robust COVID-19 community engagement work. Partners and interns will work together to address issues, increase awareness and link the community and government around the remaining challenges facing persons with disabilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Zwicker;Meaghan Edwards

Student:

Ashish Seth;Jessica Kohek

Partner:

Cerebral Palsy Association in Alberta

Discipline:

Public administration

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Enzyme-free, one-step nucleic-acid detection for point-of-care COVID-19 diagnostic screening

Rapid diagnostic testing has proven essential for stemming the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Given the global threat of COVID-19 transmission, millions of tests are needed per month to isolate infections and to facilitate safe reopening of societies. This internship will contribute to COVID-19 diagnosis efforts by first developing a faster and cost-effective protocol for viral nucleic-acid extraction, the first step common to the majority of COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests. The internship will also contribute to the development of a one-step, enzyme-free assay that is cheaper and amenable for usage at the point-of-care to help address the demand for more testing capacity both in Canada and world-wide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leo Chou

Student:

Travis Douglas

Partner:

Luna Nanotech

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Welding Alloy Formula for Wear-Corrosion Resistant Overlay

There is a strong market demand for welding filler metals to make surfaces that can resist both abrasive wear and chemical loss. The objective of this internship is to quickly design and formulate high-chromium submerged arc welding powder for overlay. The experimental core for this project involves selecting alloys and designing microstructure at the University of Alberta, welding testing at sponsor Trimay facility, and wear and corrosion testing of produced overlay at a commercial lab. The experimental tasks will be performed by considering interactions among chemical formulas, how the welding is done, changes in the metal, cracking or not cracking, how hard is the overlay, and how corrosion resistant it is. The formulas developed will greatly benefit Trimay in its quality of products and increased market share.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leijun Li

Student:

Jing Li

Partner:

Trimay

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of a small, gas powered, patient-responsive automated resuscitation/ventilation device adapted to pandemics of respiratory failure

The projects will involve the modifications of a small automated ventilator (breathing machine) suitable for use in pandemics and underresourced settings (outside hospital, in patient transport, small hospitals), especially suited to patients with severe lung disease. Partner organization will be able to improve the design of the current ventilator to make it better suited for these settings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Dorian

Student:

Bhushan Katira

Partner:

CPR Medical Devices Inc.

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on quality of life in families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in British Columbia

The purpose of this research project is to understand how families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in British Columbia can be best supported during COVID-19 and in similar pandemics. This will be accomplished by surveying parents and assessing how their child/ren and family have functioned during the current or Phase 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic, including their access to government services and supports. Their degree of satisfaction with government policies, specific to families affected by ASD, in the midst of the pandemic, will be assessed. Another goal of this research is to identify specific child and family characteristics, as well as service usage patterns, that are linked to family quality of life outcomes. The partner organization will benefit by having an objective assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on families affected by ASD, based on rigorous research, that will inform recommendations that can be shared with government.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Grace Iarocci;Elina Birmingham

Student:

Vanessa Fong

Partner:

ACT-Autism Community Training

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

An Integrated Knowledge Approach to Communicating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Caregivers and Available Resources for Families Living with Autism

Families (i.e. siblings) with children and adolescents with autism often experience demanding stressors and distress associated with providing care to their family member with autism. Distancing requirements imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have halted many of the programs that parents rely on for respite and support (e.g. interventions, day programs, schools, adapted recreation and leisure, etc.). This means parents have little or no assistance outside of the family to care for their child with autism. In this project, I aim to better understand what has been documented regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on caregiver and family functioning and identify the supportive programs that have emerged as a result. I will partner with Autism Ontario to create a lay summary report of these findings, and through our collaboration communicate the information to key knowledge users (i.e. clinicians, researchers) and families so that we can better support the mental health needs of families living with autism during this crisis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Weiss

Student:

Vivian Lee

Partner:

Autism Ontario

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response for People who are Marginalized

The current public health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we socialize with eachother, how we access health care, and our economic conditions over a short period of time. For people who are marginalized, these changes may cause decreases in income, loss of social support and community connections, unstable home environments, more substance use withdrawal and overdose, and growing mental health concerns. Some responses to the pandemic, like physical distancing and financial challenges, are likely to last for months. The Government and non-governmental agencies have started programs and services to meet the needs of people who are marginalized but we do not know whether or how these are working. Our proposal will look at urgent needs to make sure that new investments are prioritized to areas of greatest impact, quickly identify and lower unintended harms, and target novel approaches that should be scaled-up. We will use mixed methods and work closely with communities in Toronto to identify and evaluate programs and to develop recommendations that will address the needs and improve the health and well-being of people experiencing marginalization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed Bayoumi

Student:

Farah N Mawani

Partner:

Centre of Learning & Development

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Participatory Cities Every One, Every Day: Toronto

This proposal details an approach for evaluating a planned project led by SII called Participatory Cities: a new inclusive, system-based approach to stimulating and supporting dense networks of practical ‘participation culture’ in cities around the world. With proof of concept developed and tested in London, UK, by the Participatory City Foundation, the model will now be implemented in Montreal and Halifax, as well as the two Toronto communities at the centre of this proposal: Alexandra Park and Regent Park. Developmental evaluation of the kind proposed, shaped and iteratively applied through processes of co-production, is an ideal mechanism for fostering the learning needed to build connected and productive neighbourhoods in which people find novel ways to come together, share and support one another in this moment shaped by the coronavirus crisis to ultimately co-create their vision and action plan for a resilient future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Robinson

Student:

Kimberley Slater

Partner:

Social Innovation Institute

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Immunotyping of COVID-19 patient sera using novel protein complementation-based assays

In order to help deal with COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need for development of fast, reliable, and sensitive tests that will be capable of detecting IgG and IgM proteins directly in people’s blood. Our novel test for detection of IgG and IgM proteins in the blood offers several major advantages compared to other tests currently on the market: (i) highly quantitative; (ii) compatible to large scale investigation; (iii) fast performance; (iv) limited procedures; (v) small volume of blood sample required; (vi) no need for special equipment beside a common plate reader, and (vii) no need for special training for operators. This test can be used not only for clinical testing but also for large scale epidemic investigations. Moreover, once the framework has been set up, the same strategy can also be applied to monitor other infectious diseases. Our collaboration with Cyclica will greatly expand this work by allowing us to employing predictive modeling of the relevant protein-protein interactions, such as predict viral S protein-neutralizing compounds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Igor Stagljar

Student:

Luka Drecun;Ingrid Grozavu

Partner:

Cyclica

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Youth Engagement in Social Enterprise and Co-operative Development: Supporting Economic Adaptation in Rural Communities in Atlantic Canada in Context of Covid 19

Communities and regions throughout Canada have just been hit with a bomb that is a major threat multiplier: Covid 19. Across the country, rural municipalities that were already struggling economically are now struggling even more with how they should move forward, and support economic recovery and stabilization.
This research project will focus on how to rapidly engage youth in social enterprise, community enterprise and the co-operative model as a means of helping to rebuild and strengthen the economies of their communities in the context of Covid 19 and its aftermath.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Corbett

Student:

Laurie Cook

Partner:

Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

Novel technology for multiplexed chemical assays of blood at the point of care

Developing technology capable of onsite medical diagnostics is crucial for health-care delivery in clinical and emergency settings. To perform on-site diagnostics, health-care practitioners need compact, inexpensive, and user-friendly equipment. Alentic Microscience has developed a system that uses small volumes of blood for cell counting and serum tests, occurring at the site of blood extraction. This system makes single molecular layers of reagents on the sensor surface, which when exposed to light allow the system to provide valuable diagnostics about the sample. The proposed project will increase the system’s range, by moving from the single monolayers to 3D gels. By using 3D gels, the increased volume will allow the addition of multiple molecular tags to the sample that can identify and quantify multiple components simultaneously. This work will increase the dynamic range of the current technology, allowing it to be useful for biological diagnostics in even more situations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Kreplak

Student:

Matthew MacDougall;Justin Tom

Partner:

Alentic Microscience Inc

Discipline:

Sector:

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

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