Health committee  To the best of my knowledge, no. I did check the WHO website earlier today, and I did not see Canada listed there. I may have missed it, but to my knowledge, no.

Health committee  Again, to the best of my knowledge, the answer is no. I've been following the work of the committee for the past while, and I know that this question was posed at one point. I believe the answer was that there was no language to that effect in at least one of the funding agreemen

Health committee  It's a big question. We are a medical care organization that employs physicians, nurses and public health specialists. These are people who are incredibly adept at responding to public health crises as they occur in the field. We're no stranger to public health emergencies and o

Health committee  I think we're all learning a lot about public health messaging as we work through this pandemic. To a degree I empathize with people who are in a position of having to communicate rapidly emerging evidence and give an assessment of, quite frankly, imperfect evidence, because we'

Health committee  As I say, I work for an organization that's operational in some of the most complex public health emergencies in the world, in more than 70 countries. I've worked in many different places that have very weak health infrastructure, where the ability to provide the kind of care tha

Health committee  We're still trying to assess the impact of the global pandemic on a day-to-day basis. There are cases now in virtually every country where MSF works. Interestingly, a lot of the countries where we work have public health professionals who are experienced in responding to disease

Health committee  There are proposals on the table. Global international intellectual property pooling mechanisms are being proposed. That's effectively the idea that any intellectual property being generated would be put into a pool that allows multiple manufacturers to be able to produce it and

Health committee  Thank you. Certainly a number of alternative models of research and development are under way around the world. There are organizations active in Canada. I'm probably going to keep coming back to the previous study because there were some very good comments that were made by the

Health committee  I don't know the particular details of the CanSino vaccine. I know that there were results published of the phase I trial, I believe, in The Lancet roughly two weeks ago. I think the systemic global issue you're pointing to is the fact that we need more transparency and open rep

Health committee  As I say, I don't know the particularities of this vaccine. We're trying to keep track of more than a hundred vaccine candidates around the world that are being evaluated. Again, I think what you're pointing to is the fact that data need to be openly accessible and available, r

Health committee  I have the wrong Ph.D. to be commenting on cell lines and vaccine vectors. I'm a population health specialist. I'm sorry, but I really can't offer an answer to that question.

Health committee  The global vaccine manufacturing landscape, I think, is coming into full view at the moment. As with all these things, the devil is always in the details, and I don't know the particularities of what's in the licensing agreements or the collaboration agreement. Certainly I know

Health committee  I think there are a few things to remember here as well. We don't know which vaccine candidate or therapeutic is going to be effective. We're only a matter of months into the clinical trials and the development of these things. The development process is rushing ahead very quic

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the members of the committee for the opportunity to speak with you about the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions that Canada can take to ensure that people everywhere are able to access the medical care they need. By way of introduction, I a

Finance committee  We, like every other medical organization around the world today, are trying to access the same variety of medical supplies and PPE: surgical masks, N95 masks, respirators, gowns, gloves, all of these things. I think where we've found ourselves collectively in the world today is