Exploring the Context for Social Prescription in the Hamilton and Halton Region

Life circumstances that influence people’s health (e.g. education, employment, housing, and social support) are called social determinants of health (SDoH). Interest in improving SDoH is growing as chronic diseases become more prevalent. Social Prescription (SP) is a model from the United Kingdom where a health care provider “prescribes” social or community programs that increase a […]

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Supporting Capacity Building and Resilience in the context of COVID-19

Non-profits have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and many have closed their doors. This is a problem: non-profits are crucial to Canada’s social safety net, they serve marginalized populations to build greater resilience. This research intends to determine how United Way Halton and Hamilton (UWHH) and United Ways across the country can best support non-profits […]

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Design Assistant Tool for Switched Reluctance Motor Drives

Switched Reluctance Motors have gained considerable attention in various applications such as vehicle electrification due to its advantages such as simplicity, robustness, compactness, and low-cost. The proper, and efficient operation of the SRM triggers the requirement for an optimal motor drive design. Traditional converter design in power electronics has some limitations such as slow time […]

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Design and Optimization of the product platform for AIS mobile robots

AIS Inc. is at the forefront of developing practical mobile robots for various markets. Mobile robots are considered as very complex systems comprising of hundreds of interacting components in complex system architectures. Developing such complex robotic systems, particularly in large scale, requires a coherent collaboration and engagement on various specialized areas. All of the complex […]

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Evaluation of safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of a recombinant FVIII molecule: meta-analysis of the Advate Postauthorization Safety Surveillance studies

We propose a meta-analytic project which aims at summarizing Post-Authorization Surveillance Safety data on Advate, a recombinant FVIII concentrates used to treat patients with Hemophilia A. The study will involve the largest cohort of hemophilia patients on FVIII concentrates analyzed in theliterature. The project represents an attempt to sustain a methodologically strong approach in the […]

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Clear Blue Technologies Strategy Project

The project will focus on helping the company grow in three key areas for the coming years. These include market expansion, organizational structure and key process improvements. The objective of this project is to help the organization decide how to target a new market, structure the organization with new processes to ensure it is built […]

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Summer 2021 Co-op

The intern will work under PredictNow.ai’s business team to assist thier existing inbound sales and marketing campaign. The intern will also be asked to conduct an outbound sales campaign to generate sales calls for the team, and will participate in a secondary role in the calls. The role will also be tasked with curating marketing […]

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Business Strategy Internship (Mitacs) – Marketing

Market development activities a. Build customer awareness programs and campaigns b. Decide on media mix for such campaigns c. Make a market map of key customers and build strategies on creating the outreach d. Network extensively and actually outreach to target customer organizations and users e. Research on regulatory and compliance requirements at customer end, […]

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Business Strategy Intern

Anticipated project activities would include setting up a strategy for Thought Leadership pieces, writing articles on trends in the Food & Beverage Industry, some editing and on-going updates to our website, social media posts (i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter) and launching all the marketing materials around securing new lines of business (designing brochures/pitch decks, perfecting generic email […]

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Associate Media Buyer

Own day-to-day digital media buying. Managing campaign execution, optimization, and reporting, to help ensure that client objectives are met. Assist with compiling periodic reporting analysis of campaign performance metrics, campaign strategy development and client relationship management. This project is a key driver in management of client investments and will ensure growth of our clients and […]

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Development of the McMaster Cough Monitor (MaCough)

Chronic cough is a persistent daily cough that lasts greater than eight weeks and affects 10% of the general population. It is associated with a significant burden on health and quality of life. In clinical practice, there are very limited tools in order to quantitively monitor cough. Existing products are too expensive and labor intensive, […]

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Printable/sprayable anti-infective and anti-fouling coatings based on biomedical-grade polymers

Despite substantial research efforts, the problems of spreading infectious diseases (such as COVID-19) through surface transmission and infections associated with medical devices persist. One promising solution is to apply a coating to the surface of concern that can provide effective surface disinfection. However, existing approaches typically provide only short-term disinfection effects (a few hours), contain […]

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