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Charu Kaushic

Charu Kaushic
Image source: McMaster Immunology Research Centre

Charu Kaushic is a Canadian medical researcher. She is chair of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R), scientific director of the CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (III), Professor in the McMaster University Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and a member of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAR) Steering Committee.[1]

History

During the declared COVID-19 pandemic, Kaushic was “closely involved in shaping CIHR’s research response” and served on the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.

Kaushic attended an event called "2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap" hosted on February 11-12, 2020 by GloPID-R and the World Health Organization's R&D Blueprint.[2] She was a signatory to the WHO's "Public statement for collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine development," published April 13, 2020.[3]

On October 18, 2021, Kaushic delivered a presentation to Cochrane on the subject of pandemic preparedness and her work with GloPID-R.[4]

Publications

  1. Dr Charu Kaushic - Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R). Open Access Government. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.05.01-222432/https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/contributor_profile/dr-charu-kaushic-global-research-collaboration-for-infectious-disease-preparedness-glopid-r/ ↩︎

  2. 2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap AGENDA. (2020). GloPID-R. https://web.archive.org/web/20230208185417/https://www.glopid-r.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/covid-19-global-research-and-innovation-forum-2020-program.pdf ↩︎

  3. Jasarevic, T. (2020, April 16). Public statement for collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine development. World Health Organization. http://archive.vn/2020.10.04-153106/https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-04-2020-public-statement-for-collaboration-on-covid-19-vaccine-development ↩︎

  4. Cochrane. (2021, October 18). Cochrane Convenes Keynote from Dr Charu Kaushic. YouTube. https://web.archive.org/web/20211125091204/https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpy3MGNqcM0 ↩︎