This presentation will introduce REACH BC, an initiative of Clinical Trials British Columbia, part of Health Research BC. REACH BC is a provincial platform that connects British Columbians with opportunities to participate in clinical trials and health research. The team will share how the platform works, the types of studies researchers can recruit for, how […]

Tracking infectious diseases across humans, animals, and the environment—and understanding how they evolve—requires strong epidemiological intelligence (epi-intel). Integrating pathogen genomic data with high-quality contextual information provides high-resolution epi-intel and accelerates research. This approach was used widely during the COVID-19 pandemic, yielding an unprecedented volume of data and a rapid expansion of knowledge. In this talk, […]