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Gonzalo Alvarez
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Latest papers
Short Telomere Syndrome presenting with pulmonary fibrosis, liver cirrhosis and hepatopulmonary syndrome: a case report.
BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023 · senior author
Cost-effectiveness analysis of 3 months of weekly rifapentine and isoniazid compared to isoniazid monotherapy in a Canadian arctic setting.
BMJ open · 2021
Prevalence and burden of obstructive lung disease in the urban poor population of Ottawa, Canada: a community-based mixed-method, observational study.
BMC public health · 2021 · senior author
Latest funding
- $100,000
The impact of tobacco smoking during pregnancy on the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease in women.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $3,037,050
The Taima TB wastewater study
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $260,100
A Key Step to Eliminating Tuberculosis in Canada: Informing the Implementation and Scale-up of Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
Short Telomere Syndrome presenting with pulmonary fibrosis, liver cirrhosis and hepatopulmonary syndrome: a case report.
Baird A, Gomes M, Souza CA, Magner K, Alvarez G
Cost-effectiveness analysis of 3 months of weekly rifapentine and isoniazid compared to isoniazid monotherapy in a Canadian arctic setting.
Pease C, Alvarez G, Mallick R, Patterson M, Finn S, Habis Y, Schwartzman K, Kilabuk E, Mulpuru S, Zwerling A
Prevalence and burden of obstructive lung disease in the urban poor population of Ottawa, Canada: a community-based mixed-method, observational study.
Pakhale S, Tariq S, Huynh N, Jama S, Kaur T, Charron C, Florence K, Nur F, Bustamante-Bawagan ME, Bignell T, Boyd R, Haddad J, Kendzerska T, Alvarez G
Study protocol: a randomized, double-blind, parallel, two-arm, placebo control trial investigating the feasibility and safety of immunoglobulin treatment in COPD patients for prevention of frequent recurrent exacerbations.
Cowan J, Mulpuru S, Aaron S, Alvarez G, Giulivi A, Corrales-Medina V, Thiruganasambandamoorthy V, Thavorn K, Mallick R, Cameron DW
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation frequency and serum IgG levels.
Cowan J, Mulpuru S, Alvarez G, Corrales-Medina V, Cameron DW
Management and Point-of-Care for Tobacco Dependence (PROMPT): a feasibility mixed methods community-based participatory action research project in Ottawa, Canada.
Pakhale S, Kaur T, Charron C, Florence K, Rose T, Jama S, Boyd R, Haddad J, Alvarez G, Tyndall M
The impact of tobacco smoking during pregnancy on the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease in women.
Principal investigators: Pakhale, Smita; Coburn, Veldon
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases (Cvd); Community-Based Participatory Research; Indigenous Populations; Knowledge Translation; Marginalized Populations; Pregnancy Health; Sistemically Disadvantaged Populations; Tobacco Smoking; Women'S Health; Youth Health
The Taima TB wastewater study
Principal investigators: Alvarez, Gonzalo G; Allen, Jean M; Delatolla, Robert; Sun, Jim
Keywords: Biomarkers; Inuit; Population Health; Tuberculosis; Wastewater
A Key Step to Eliminating Tuberculosis in Canada: Informing the Implementation and Scale-up of Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment
Principal investigators: Campbell, Jonathon; Brode, Sarah K; Johnston, James C
Keywords: Prevention; Risk-Benefit; Scale-Up Science; Tuberculosis
Focused community TB screening among high risk residential zones in Nunavut: The TAIMA TB household risk prediction study
Principal investigators: Alvarez, Gonzalo G; Mao, Yongyi; Pease, Christopher
Keywords: Epidemiology; Inuit; Machine Learning; Population Health; Tuberculosis
Modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of novel approaches for TB control in Nunavut
Principal investigators: Zwerling, Alice A; Alvarez, Gonzalo G
Keywords: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Modelling Population Level Impact; Tuberculosis Among Inuit; Tuberculosis Community Wide Screening Programs; Tuberculosis Elimination Among Inuit
CanPORT: A National Training Entity in Patient-Oriented Research
Principal investigators: Fergusson, Dean A; Forster, Alan J; Patterson, Michael; Proulx, Laurie; Alvarez, Gonzalo G; Brouwers, Melissa C; Cobey, Kelly D; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Lavis, John N; Moher, David; Zwerling, Alice A
Keywords: Capacity Building; Hqp; Patient Engagement; Patient-Oriented Research; Training
Implementing the 'Patients' Charter of Tuberculosis Care' in High Incidence Indigenous Communities and Across Jurisdictional Borders
Principal investigators: Long, Richard; Gordon, Mishael; Alvarez, Gonzalo G
Keywords: Health Equity; Tuberculosis
Preventing tuberculosis in Inuit communitiies: Predicting what may work
Principal investigators: Schwartzman, Kevin; Alvarez, Gonzalo G
Keywords: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Decision Analysis; Inuit; Social Determinants; Transmission Model; Tuberculosis
Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programs and policy: A research program focusing on integrated knowledge translation
Principal investigators: Graham, Ian D
Keywords: Complex Interventions; Implementation Science; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Knowledge Translation; Knowledge Use; Research Impact; Research Use
Modeling the impact of interventions for tuberculosis control in Inuit communities
Principal investigators: Schwartzman, Kevin; Alvarez, Gonzalo G
Keywords: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Decision Analysis; Inuit; Social Determinants; Tuberculosis
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Kednapa Thavorn and Sunita Mulpuru: 15 shared papers
- Smita Pakhale and Sunita Mulpuru: 12 shared papers
- Sunita Mulpuru and Tetyana Kendzerska: 12 shared papers
- Vicente Corrales-Medina and Juthaporn Cowan: 10 shared papers
- Kednapa Thavorn and Tetyana Kendzerska: 8 shared papers
- Smita Pakhale and Sadia Jama: 7 shared papers
- Sunita Mulpuru and Juthaporn Cowan: 6 shared papers
- Shawn Aaron and Smita Pakhale: 5 shared papers
- Sunita Mulpuru and Christopher Pease: 5 shared papers
- Kednapa Thavorn and Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy: 4 shared papers
- Kednapa Thavorn and Juthaporn Cowan: 4 shared papers
- Smita Pakhale and Tetyana Kendzerska: 4 shared papers
- Smita Pakhale and Christopher Pease: 4 shared papers
- Sunita Mulpuru and Vicente Corrales-Medina: 4 shared papers
- Kednapa Thavorn and Vicente Corrales-Medina: 3 shared papers
- Smita Pakhale and Ted Bignell: 3 shared papers
- Alice Zwerling and Christopher Pease: 3 shared papers
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Sunita Mulpuru: 3 shared papers
- Ted Bignell and Sadia Jama: 3 shared papers
- Kednapa Thavorn and Antonio Giulivi: 2 shared papers
- Smita Pakhale and Gonzalo Alvarez: 2 shared papers
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Sadia Jama: 2 shared papers
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Vicente Corrales-Medina: 2 shared papers
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Juthaporn Cowan: 2 shared papers
- Sunita Mulpuru and Antonio Giulivi: 2 shared papers
- Vicente Corrales-Medina and Antonio Giulivi: 2 shared papers
- Shawn Aaron and Kednapa Thavorn: 1 shared paper
- Shawn Aaron and Gonzalo Alvarez: 1 shared paper
- Shawn Aaron and Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Schwartzman and Kednapa Thavorn: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Schwartzman and Alice Zwerling: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Schwartzman and Gonzalo Alvarez: 1 shared paper
- Kednapa Thavorn and Alice Zwerling: 1 shared paper
- Kednapa Thavorn and Gonzalo Alvarez: 1 shared paper
- Alice Zwerling and Gonzalo Alvarez: 1 shared paper
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy: 1 shared paper
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Tetyana Kendzerska: 1 shared paper
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Christopher Pease: 1 shared paper
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Ted Bignell: 1 shared paper
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Antonio Giulivi: 1 shared paper
- Gonzalo Alvarez and Marcio Gomes: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
- Respiratory Epidemiology Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Other
Co-authors at University of Ottawa, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Sunita Mulpuru
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2021
Sadia Jama
Internal Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Vicente Corrales-Medina
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Juthaporn Cowan
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Smita Pakhale
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Christopher Pease
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Tetyana Kendzerska
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Antonio Giulivi
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Ted Bignell
Internal Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Marcio Gomes
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy
Emergency Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Shawn Aaron
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Kevin Schwartzman
Respiratory Epidemiology Unit
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Kednapa Thavorn
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Alice Zwerling
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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