Dr. Elijah Bisung receives CIHR funding to explore strategies to build and sustain trust in public health institutions in sub-Saharan Africa

Elijah Bisung, PhD

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have released the results of their latest Project Grant competition and Priority Announcements. Dr. Elijah Bisung has received funding for a project that focuses on the challenges brought on by COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, Guinea, and Liberia. Dr. Bisung is working with partners at University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, University of Allied Health Sciences, Ghana and Centre d’Excellence Africain pour la Prévention et le Contrôle des Maladies Transmissibles (CEA-PCMT) to explore strategies to build and sustain trust in public health institutions.

Read more in the Queen’s Gazette, 6 March 2023.