Guy Dumont

Physical distancing

Feedback-based policy can help manage COVID-19 more effectively

A team of applied science researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a systematic feedback strategy they say can help public health authorities in their efforts to contain COVID-19 over the next several months.E

Mar 31, 2020

Mobile app reads kids’ respiratory rate faster, more accurately

A new mobile app developed by UBC researchers can measure respiratory rate in children roughly six times faster than the standard manual method.

Jun 18, 2014

Reaching remote villages

Reaching remote villages

UBC researchers have developed a mobile Phone Oximeter that could save lives of those who live beyond the reach of regular doctor care.

Dec 27, 2013 - by Jon Azpiri with files from Abeer Yusuf

UBC researchers win national honours

UBC researchers in engineering, medicine, chemistry and physics and astronomy are being honoured this evening in Ottawa at a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) award ceremony.

Feb 14, 2011