Kawsika Sivayoganathan is a Project Manager II on Dr. Pinto’s team at the Upstream Lab of St. Michael’s Hospital. She received her Hon. Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto. She collaborates with the team on research initiatives that focus on improving the health and well-being of adults. Kawsika has over 10 years of healthcare research experience and worked on a wide range of studies that looked at mental health and addictions, health promotion and prevention, public policy, homelessness and housing, women’s health, knowledge translation, and social determinants of health. Currently, she is working on the CanTreatCOVID study.
While public health measures and vaccines have reduced the spread of SARS-CoV-2, most scientists predict this virus will become endemic and new variants will continue ...