Murthy, Srinivas

Published purpose

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are: • Accelerate the availability of high-quality and real-time evidence to support Canada’s rapid response to the global pandemic in order to better treat and manage COVID-19 working in conjunction with the WHO Solidarity trial in Canada; • Expand the ability of the CATCO trial to recruit more patients to test, and study the implementation of interventions to treat and manage COVID-19 • Enable Canadian engagement and coordination in international large-scale trials and better enable harmonized data collection, sharing of data, rapid large-scale evaluation of impact, and; • Provide evidence to inform clinical and health system management and public health response, and/or decision-making and planning within and across jurisdictions in Canada and internationally.