The best American scientists have lost their jobs. Canada publishes a welcome mat.

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Many major scientists in the United States are now out of the job.

Health Minister Robert F. aims. Kennedy Junior to reduce 20,000 jobs in agencies such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Health Institutes (NIH) and FDA and Drug Administration.

The researchers say on both sides of the border, not all scholars, but Canada can play its role in ensuring that American scientists are able to continue their research, as researchers say on both sides of the border.

Shortly, Canadian academics say they hear daily from American colleagues looking for job opportunities in Canada.

An example of this: Dr. Madhukar Bay, Director of McGill Global Health Programs, told CBC News that he expects a record number of applicants to get a new job in his space, and opened in the coming weeks. It is a particularly successful field Sweeping discounts At the American Agency for International Development, which reduces life rescue programs around the world, it deals with diseases such as HIV and malaria.

Scientists who oversee cancer research, vaccine and medicine approvals, general health and regulations among the 10,000 that have already been developed. Public health experts say mass shootings can have catastrophic effects on the United States and the world.

“Some of the world’s senior health experts have lost their jobs,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of Disease Control Center.

He said that without the center of disease control, more people will be ill, and they may die, in the United States and around the world – including Canada.

“There are risks to Canada – and the capabilities of Canda to progress.”

Kevin Griffis, the former CDC director, resigned, protesting two weeks after three years in the agency. He said that mass shootings were widely perceived and could have unexpected consequences.

If the agency needs to hold a press conference today on a major threat to public health, “No one knows how to run the sound anymore. Because they launched the studio team.”

Kirsten Patrick, Editor -in -Chief of the Canadian Medical Association (CMAJ), says that the discounts reached by research funding in the United States will also create gaps in evidence because there will be less research that is funded and managed in general. This is why it is important for Canada to increase its research funding, she says.

She said: “If we have a position where, in the south, research has not been well funded as it should, and some research has not been conducted, then we will need a strong research system in Canada.”

The provinces “offer a welcome mat.”

Canadian provinces are already trying to suddenly attract American health experts from the job.

In a statement to CBC, Minister of Health Ozuma Asjura said that Manitoba “is offered a welcoming mat” for us, doctors, nurses and researchers affected by discounts.

Asjura said the boycott is currently talking more than ten doctors in the United States interested in moving this step.

They are also developing a “mysterious American employment campaign in the coming weeks.”

British Columbia also says it monitors the latest developments in the United States. A spokesman for the Ministry of Health said in a statement that it “will provide what can support (IT)” for American colleagues, so that they can continue their decisive work. BC, also, actively recruiting American health professionals.

In Toronto, the University Health Network is also scheduled to announce its strategy to attract two major scientists.

But other groups are also trying to employ the same scientists: Frieden, director of the former diseases control center, has already made an offer to an absolute government world for profit that is now running, and is resolved to save lives.

Local governments and state governments in the United States are also trying Capture Federal workers have launched – not to mention universities all over the world.

But Canada is in a good position between the competition. Stephanie Michud, CEO of Biocanrx, a research network that focuses on developing immune treatments to fight cancer, says. She received $ 40 million in federal funding between 2015 and 2019 – and 109.5 million dollars in financing from others, such as industry partners, provinces and charities.

“We have excellent researchers and excellent doctors who are already working here,” she said, noting that Canadian researchers tend to publish actively.

She says Canada can work better, she says, in translating discoveries into treatments through clinical trials, and eventually, into practice.

She said: “What it takes regarding investments to obtain a discovered discovery, was published in a Canadian laboratory and takes it towards a clinical trial. This is where Canada has (more difficult time.”

While American scientists look at other countries to continue their work, it is an opportunity to address this weakness, by listening to scientists and doctors and investing in more research – which makes Canada more attractive to the highest talent.

Canada funds a much lower search than the United States for the individual analysis From the Canadian League of Neuroscience. From 2020 to 2021, the National Institutes of Health were funded by about $ 55.7 billion in the research. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, compared to $ 1.44 billion. Even given that the population of the United States is greater than nine times than Canada, this is 39 times.

“I think we have all the right ingredients, we just need to collect all the pieces together,” said Mishoud.

Increase research financing

Dr. William Ghali, Vice President of Research at Calgary University, says that the other strategy that Canada can take: facilitates researchers working in Canada to keep the lights in their laboratories.

In Canada, if the researcher gets a federal scholarship, the government also puts some money to cover costs such as employment support employees, laboratory operating and maintaining them, or paying for computer/data servers.

But it is paid to universities annually, not associated with any researchers or individual scholarships – not enough money to cover the costs of everything that makes the research possible, according to Ghali.

Ghali says it is a good moment for Canada to reconsider our approach. He says these indirect costs make a big difference for researchers – and ensuring an indirect financing will attract the best talent from outside Canada.

This, in turn, will benefit all Canadians, as he says: Scientific growth leads to economic growth.

My research partnership has changed

But supporting the sense of opportunity, there is also sadness.

But scientists who leave the United States because they do not feel safe or supportive in their country are sad, according to Ghali, who says it seems like a blow against global cooperation.

Dr. Bay, director of McGill Global Health Programs, says he is uncomfortable with the idea of ​​overfishing American scientists.

“American scientists deserve to work in their country, not leave their families, feel safe in their country, and they are adequately funded (and) respectable and reward.”

But from a new fact that the world is calculated: the United States cannot rely on achieving the role it has received for decades. It is a lesson that economists learn in the wake of the “liberation day” definitions. Scientists warn that the lesson itself is waiting in the field of health and medical research.

Ghali said: “There is an opportunity for Canada to reshape its global partnerships, and it may gain closer relations with Europe, and may become stronger in terms of cohesion inside Canada,” Ghali said.