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# Ontario's COVID-19 Genomics Rapid Response Coalition
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/ontarios-covid-19-genomics-rapid-response-coalition/
- Published: 2026-02-20T19:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-20T19:28:32.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, COVID-19, Organization, #toc, Research, Academia

**Ontario's COVID-19 Genomics Rapid Response Coalition (ONCoV)** is a Canadian public-private research initiative run by Ontario Genomics.

## Members

| Name                                                                     | Position                        | Affiliation(s)                                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Bettina Hamelin                                                          | Steering Committee[\[1\]](#fn1) | Ontario Genomics                                                                                                                      |
| Nahuel Fittipaldi                                                        | Steering Committee              | [Public Health Ontario](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Public-Health-Ontario)                                                  |
| Robyn Lee                                                                | Steering Committee              | [Dalla Lana School of Public Health](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Dalla-Lana-School-of-Public-Health), University of Toronto |
| Andrew McArthur                                                          | Steering Committee              | McMaster University                                                                                                                   |
| [Allison McGeer](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Allison-McGeer)   | Steering Committee              | Sinai Health System                                                                                                                   |
| [Samira Mubareka](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Samira-Mubareka) | Steering Committee              | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto                                                                              |
| Herveen Sachdeva                                                         | Steering Committee              | [Toronto Public Health](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Toronto-Public-Health)                                                  |
| Stephen Scherer                                                          | Steering Committee              | CGen, The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG)                                                                                          |
| Jared Simpson                                                            | Steering Committee              | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research                                                                                                 |
| Michael Szego                                                            | Steering Committee              | University of Toronto                                                                                                                 |
| Sarah Wootton                                                            | Steering Committee              | University of Guelph                                                                                                                  |
| Aaron Campigotto                                                         | Member                          | University of Toronto                                                                                                                 |
| Danielle Brabant-Kirwan                                                  | Member                          | Health Sciences North                                                                                                                 |
| Marc Fiume                                                               | Member                          | DNAstack                                                                                                                              |
| Letitia Nadalin Penno                                                    | Member                          | Canadore College                                                                                                                      |
| Prameet Sheth                                                            | Member                          | Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Queen's University                                                                                   |
| David Villeneuve                                                         | Member                          | Canadore College                                                                                                                      |
| Bo Wang                                                                  | Member                          | Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto                                                           |

## Partners

Partners of the coalition include:[\[1:1\]](#fn1)

- [Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Canadian-COVID-19-Genomics-Network) (CanCOGen)
- Canadian Data Integration Centre (CDIC)
- Canadore College
- The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG)
- CGen
- [Dalla Lana School of Public Health](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Dalla-Lana-School-of-Public-Health)
- DNAstack
- Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)
- Genome Canada
- Hamilton Health Sciences
- Health Sciences North
- Illumina
- Kingston General Hospital
- London Health Sciences Centre
- McMaster University
- Michael Garron Hospital
- North York General Hospital
- Ontario Genomics
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies
- Peter Munk Cardiac Centre
- [Public Health Agency of Canada](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Public-Health-Agency-of-Canada) (PHAC)
- [Public Health Ontario](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Public-Health-Ontario) (PHO)
- Scarborough Health Network
- SickKids
- Sinai Health System
- St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
- Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Unity Health Toronto
- University of Toronto
- [Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Vector-Institute-for-Artificial-Intelligence)

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=ontario%5Fs%5Fcovid-19%5Fgenomics%5Frapid%5Fresponse%5Fcoalition)
- [Website](https://www.oncov.ca/)

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1. *Home.* ONCoV. Retrieved September 10, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20220910203044/https://www.oncov.ca/> [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1)