> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Royal Society of Canada - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/royal-society-of-canada/ - Published: 1999-01-02T23:34:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-07-19T03:23:05.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization The **Royal Society of Canada (RSC)** is a Canadian nonprofit organization based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is described as a "learned society." ## COVID-19 In April 2020, the President of the RSC established the RSC Task Force on COVID-19.[\[1\]](#fn1) ## Membership | Name | Affiliation | Notes | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Upton Allen | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2\]](#fn2) | University of Toronto, SickKids, Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, [Black Scientists' Task Force on Vaccine Equity](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Black-Scientists-Task-Force-on-Vaccine-Equity) | | Melissa Andrew | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:1\]](#fn2) | [National Advisory Committee on Immunization](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/National-Advisory-Committee-on-Immunization) (NACI), [Canadian Center for Vaccinology](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Canadian-Center-for-Vaccinology), [Canadian Immunization Research Network](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Canadian-Immunization-Research-Network) | | Pat Armstrong | Fellow[\[3\]](#fn3) | Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table | | Benjamin Berger | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:2\]](#fn2) | York University | | Andrew Bond | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:3\]](#fn2) | Inner City Health Associates | | Paul Bramadat | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:4\]](#fn2) | University of Victoria | | Tania Bubela | Fellow[\[4\]](#fn4) | [BC COVID-19 Strategic Research Advisory Committee](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/BC-COVID-19-Strategic-Research-Advisory-Committee) | | Timothy Caulfield | Fellow;[\[5\]](#fn5) Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[6\]](#fn6) | Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, [ScienceUpFirst](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/ScienceUpFirst) | | Jeannette Comeau | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:5\]](#fn2) | [National Advisory Committee on Immunization](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/National-Advisory-Committee-on-Immunization) (NACI), [Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Association-of-Medical-Microbiology-and-Infectious-Disease-Canada), Dalhousie University | | [Ève Dubé](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Eve-Dube) | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19 | [National Advisory Committee on Immunization](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/National-Advisory-Committee-on-Immunization) (NACI), [Canadian Immunization Research Network](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Canadian-Immunization-Research-Network), Immunize Canada | | Terence Flynn | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:6\]](#fn2) | McMaster University | | Monty Ghosh | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:7\]](#fn2) | University of Alberta | | Janice Graham | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:8\]](#fn2) | Dalhousie University | | Margo Greenwood | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:9\]](#fn2) | Senate of Canada, [College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/College-of-Physicians-and-Surgeons-of-British-Columbia), University of Northern British Columbia, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health | | Devon Greyson | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:10\]](#fn2) | University of Massachusetts Amherst | | Shawn Harmon | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:11\]](#fn2) | Dalhousie University | | Robyn Harrison | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[1:1\]](#fn1) | [National Advisory Committee on Immunization](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/National-Advisory-Committee-on-Immunization) (NACI), [Alberta Health Services](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Alberta-Health-Services) (AHS) | | Jennie Johnstone | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[1:2\]](#fn1) | University of Toronto | | Jeff Karabanow | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:12\]](#fn2) | Dalhousie University | | Bartha Knoppers | Fellow[\[7\]](#fn7) | [COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-Vaccine-Task-Force) | | Noni MacDonald | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:13\]](#fn2) | HELPinKids&Adults, Dalhousie University | | Janet McElhaney | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:14\]](#fn2) | Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Health Sciences North Research Institute | | C. Meghan McMurtry | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:15\]](#fn2) | HELPinKids&Adults, University of Guelph, McMaster Children's Hospital | | Alan Middleton | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:16\]](#fn2) | York University | | [Samira Mubareka](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Samira-Mubareka) | Chair, Working Group on One Health;[\[8\]](#fn8) Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[6:1\]](#fn6) | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, [Ontario's COVID-19 Genomics Rapid Response Coalition](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Ontarios-COVID-19-Genomics-Rapid-Response-Coalition) | | Christopher Mushquash | Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists[\[9\]](#fn9) | Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table | | Mona Nemer | Fellow, Academy of Sciences[\[10\]](#fn10) | [COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-Vaccine-Task-Force) | | Pamela Ohashi | Member[\[11\]](#fn11) | [COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-Therapeutics-Task-Force) | | Aaron Orkin | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:17\]](#fn2) | Inner City Health Associates | | Laura Rosella | Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists[\[12\]](#fn12) | [Dalla Lana School of Public Health](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Dalla-Lana-School-of-Public-Health), Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, [Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Vector-Institute-for-Artificial-Intelligence) | | Lynora Saxinger | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[1:3\]](#fn1) | [AHS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/AHS-COVID-19-Scientific-Advisory-Group) | | Wendy Sligl | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[1:4\]](#fn1) | University of Alberta | | Audrey Steenbeek | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:18\]](#fn2) | Dalhousie University | | Anna Taddio | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:19\]](#fn2) | HELPinKids&Adults, University of Toronto | | Karina Top | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:20\]](#fn2) | Dalhousie University, [Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Coalition-for-Epidemic-Preparedness-Innovations) (CEPI), [Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Vaccine-Surveillance-Reference-Group) | | Jeff Turnbull | Contributor, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[2:21\]](#fn2) | University of Ottawa | | Lorne Tyrrell | Fellow[\[13\]](#fn13) | [COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-Vaccine-Task-Force) | | André Veillette | Member[\[14\]](#fn14) | [COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-Vaccine-Task-Force) | | David Waldner | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[1:5\]](#fn1) | University of Alberta | | Duncan Webster | Member, RSC Task Force on COVID-19[\[1:6\]](#fn1) | Saint John Regional Hospital, Dalhousie University | ## Publications - February 2021: [The Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Canada in 2020: The Pre-Vaccine Era](https://web.archive.org/web/20230826193222/https://www.interacademies.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/Epid%20PB%5FEN.pdf) - April 2021: [Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Canada](https://web.archive.org/web/20230826185938/https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/VA%20PB%5FEN%5F1.pdf) ## External links - [Website](https://rsc-src.ca/) - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%5FSociety%5Fof%5FCanada) --- 1. Harrison, R. A., Johnstone, J., Saxinger, L., Sligl, W., Waldner, D., & Webster, D. (2021). *The Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Canada in 2020: The Pre-Vaccine Era* (p. 2). Royal Society of Canada. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230826193222/https://www.interacademies.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/Epid PB\_EN.pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20230826193222/https://www.interacademies.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/Epid%20PB%5FEN.pdf) [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1) [↩︎](#fnref1:2) [↩︎](#fnref1:3) [↩︎](#fnref1:4) [↩︎](#fnref1:5) [↩︎](#fnref1:6) 2. Comeau, J., Dubé, E., Graham, J., Greenwood, M., Harmon, S., MacDonald, N. E., McElhaney, J., McMurtry, C. M., Middleton, A., Steenbeek, A., & Tadio, A. (2021). *Enhancing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Canada*. Royal Society of Canada. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230826185938/https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/VA PB\_EN\_1.pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20230826185938/https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/VA%20PB%5FEN%5F1.pdf) [↩︎](#fnref2) [↩︎](#fnref2:1) [↩︎](#fnref2:2) [↩︎](#fnref2:3) [↩︎](#fnref2:4) [↩︎](#fnref2:5) [↩︎](#fnref2:6) [↩︎](#fnref2:7) [↩︎](#fnref2:8) [↩︎](#fnref2:9) [↩︎](#fnref2:10) [↩︎](#fnref2:11) [↩︎](#fnref2:12) [↩︎](#fnref2:13) [↩︎](#fnref2:14) [↩︎](#fnref2:15) [↩︎](#fnref2:16) [↩︎](#fnref2:17) [↩︎](#fnref2:18) [↩︎](#fnref2:19) [↩︎](#fnref2:20) [↩︎](#fnref2:21) 3. *Pat Armstrong.* Canadian Scholars. Retrieved January 21, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref3) 4. *Committee Members.* Health Research BC. Retrieved January 18, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref4) 5. *Timothy Caulfield.* Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Retrieved October 25, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref5) 6. *The RSC Task Force on COVID-19.* Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved August 26, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref6) [↩︎](#fnref6:1) 7. *Bartha Maria Knoppers.* McGill Research Honours. Retrieved January 29, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref7) 8. *One Health.* The Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved September 10, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref8) 9. Walker, B. (2017, October 26). *Lakehead Professor will be inducted into the Royal Society of Scholars, Artists and Scientists.* Lakehead University. [↩︎](#fnref9) 10. *Biography of Dr. Mona Nemer, C.M., C.Q., FRSC.* (2022, July 25). Government of Canada. [↩︎](#fnref10) 11. *PI Biography.* Ohashi Lab. Retrieved August 26, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref11) 12. *Laura Rosella.* Population Health Analytics Laboratory. Retrieved July 5, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref12) 13. *Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, 1943-.* Alberta Medical Association. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref13) 14. *André Veillette.* Terry Fox Research Institute. Retrieved March 22, 2023, from [https://web.archive.org/web/20230322084425/https://www.tfri.ca/about/team/bio/andré-veillette](https://web.archive.org/web/20230322084425/https://www.tfri.ca/about/team/bio/andr%C3%A9-veillette) [↩︎](#fnref14)