Posts Categorized: COVID-19

Dionne M. Aleman, associate professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, shared a similar opinion. “Sending some of our vaccines to those countries with a lot of travelers to Canada would better help our case counts than using that same number…

The pandemic has shone a light on the difficult decisions that must be made in order to manage hospital capacity, quality of care and patient outcomes. Helping to inform these tough calls are health-care optimization experts, such as Professors Timothy…

In a new Q&A, U of T Engineering pandemic modelling expert Dionne Aleman explains the crucial role modelling plays in predicting and reducing the spread of COVID-19. Recording at: U of T Engineering Youtube Channel

First Place & The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award: Stop the Spread: COVID-19 Public health Policy Decision Support Project Team: Olivia Bierman-Dyk, Clara Birch, Jean Carlos Cedeno Bravo, Catherine Grace Lloyd Client: Medical Operations Research Lab, University of Toronto…

Given that more adults in their 20s to 50s are becoming critically ill, “perhaps we need to have larger eligible age-bands so we aren’t always scrambling to find people to get their shot,” said Timothy Chan, a University of Toronto…

“If we want to get it done by Sept. 1, then we need up to about 115,000 doses a day,” Dr. Timothy Chan, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto and CHE Director, told the…

If just 79 per cent of Canadians wanted the COVID-19 vaccine, Timothy Chan, Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health and CHE Director, said the number of doses needed per day would drop to roughly 280,000. Chan…

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and our lives changed dramatically as we moved to remote work and online classes. Governments declared lockdowns and mandated masks, and the virus continued to spread despite our…

“A little bit of new infrastructure can go a long way,” said Timothy Chan, a U of T professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and CHE affiliate, who co-authored the study. “The bike lanes that were put in during the…

Speaker: Dionne Aleman, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm-1:00pm Location: Virtual – join us on Zoom! A Fast and Granular Agent-Based Simulation Model of COVID-19  Abstract: Most COVID-19 projections are based on compartmental models, which require only…