Fahad Razak on why he is excited about the Ontario Science Advisory Table
Fahad Razak became scientific director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table earlier this year and is already at the center of questions about the mandate of masks, wastewater signaling, and the shift of desks from the University of Toronto to Public Health Ontario. An assistant professor in the department of medicine at the Temerty School of Medicine and at the Dalla Lana School’s Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Razak is an expert in internal medicine and epidemiology at St. Michael, Unity Health Toronto. He spoke with author Jim Oldfield about his decision to take up the job as scientific director of table science and the potential challenges ahead. How did you find time for this role? Before I took on this role, I decided to step away from clinical work for a year. As an internal medicine doctor at St. Michael, on the front lines of the pandemic, these two and a half years have been very busy. My specialty has seen large numbers of COVID-19 patie