Richard Lester

Associate Professor

Division of Infectious Diseases

Faculty of Medicine

COVID-19 Research Area(s)

Diagnostics, Genomics & Transmission Dynamics, Epidemiology & Public Health, Equipment & Technology Innovations, Healthcare Delivery & Policy, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Collaborators Sought

Academic, Community, Government, Healthcare, Industry, Non-profit

Areas of collaboration interest

Government and private deployment, computer and data science, natural language processing (NLP), health IT, clinical and social science in COVID-19 direct response.

Research Specializations

Digital health and virtual care to support

public health units monitoring and supporting cases/contacts under home isolation
virtual care of patients during COVID-19

COVID-19 Projects (UBC Lead)

Digital Virtual Support of Cases and Contacts to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Readiness and Knowledge Sharing for Global Outbreaks (WelTel PHM)

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