Dr. Darrell Tan spoke with The Canadian Press about why people in Canada did not receive second doses of the mpox vaccines, and the importance of improving access to other countries in need of them. You can read about it here.

As MPOX cases continue to rise both in Toronto and globally, Dr. Darrell Tan highlights the importance and ease of getting vaccinated. Watch the CBC news broadcast here. (Click on post to watch)

Congratulations to the Options Lab summer students for their incredible performance at the 2024 Keenan Research Summer Student Poster Competition! Emma, Archchana, Camryn and Aisling all presented posters regarding the projects they have been hard at work on since the start of June. They all made us very proud with their fantastic posters and we’re […]

The Options Lab team gathered on June 4th at the beautiful 519 Church Street Community Centre for the 2024 annual Vision Meeting. The team engaged in productive activities such as a revisiting of the Options Lab vision and mission, and learning how to effectively work with a Community Advisory Board. Moreover, the team engaged in […]

We are excited to announce that Dr. Darrell Tan has been re-elected to the International AIDs Society (IAS) Governing Council. He will continue to serve on the Governing Council, the elected thought leadership body of the IAS, for the next four years. Please see the following link for more information: Election results: 2024 IAS Governing […]

We are excited to announce that the PRECISE (Prepare, REact, Collect, Innovate, Share, and Engage) study has been awarded funding from the Government of Canada. This study, on which Dr. Darrell Tan is one of four clinical leads, is a $19 million initiative that will help improve diagnostics to strengthen Canada’s response to future pandemics. […]

Yasamin Sadeghi, a Master’s student in the Options Lab, has recently been awarded a 2024 St. Michael’s Hospital Research Training Centre Top-Up Award to support her graduate studies. Congratulations, Yas!

Matthew McGarrity, a previous MPH and summer student in the Options Lab, has just had his paper on hepatitis A, hepatitis B and HPV vaccination uptake in the ON-PrEP cohort study accepted for publication in a journal called Sexually Transmitted Infections! Matt is also currently pursing his medical degree in Ireland, and will be returning […]

Myo Minn Oo is joining the Options Lab as a Senior Research Associate. He brings a wealth of prior experience studying medicine in Myanmar and epidemiology in Thailand, followed by epidemiology fieldwork and research on a variety of global health issues including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.  To start with, Myo’s role on our team will […]

Congratulations to the Options Lab team. Many of our members were accepted for either poster presentations or oral presentations at the 33rd Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDs (CAHR 2024) in London, Ontario. Oral abstracts were presented delivered by Maryam, Stanley, Monica and Yasamin. Maryam and Stanley presented on the status of their update of the […]