Meet the 13 researchers selected from across the university to join the 2021 cohort of OpenThink, a program that gives future thought leaders the training and platform they need to influence public discourse and policy.

Debates about public safety and temporary foreign workers continue without input from those whose health is most affected. Migrant workers themselves are largely invisible amid discussions about risk, write Raluca Bejan and Kristi Allain.

Researchers affiliated with Ä¢¹½AV Faculty of Medicine, Nova Scotia Health, and the IWK received funding provided by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant Program.

Dr. Robin Urquhart has been chosen to lead the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health Study (Atlantic PATH), an offshoot of a national research platform investigating how genetics, environment, lifestyle, and behaviour contribute to the development of chronic disease and cancer.

In this week’s column, Dr. Saini discusses reaching the one-year mark since Ä¢¹½AV moved much of its operations online, acknowledges the challenges our community members continue to face as a result of the pandemic, and shares a few reasons why he remains optimistic about Ä¢¹½AV’s future.