We are a team of academics, physicians, trainees, people who sew, and other volunteers. We've been working on identifying published, peer-reviewed literature to inform the choice of materials and designs for cloth masks, communicating around materials and design, and curating high-quality information on mask use and mask cleaning.
At present, this site and all our work is on a voluntary basis, without funding.
Our academic work includes an opinion piece available here and a narrative review available here. Our plain language summary is available here.
Let's redouble our efforts in every other area as children go back to school. Catherine Clase and Zain Chagla discuss Back to School Best Practices with Mike Rosen at Rediscovering Play.
Academic team
Catherine M Clase MB BChir MSc FRCPC (co-lead)
Associate professor, Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Associate member, Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Faculty, Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Nephrologist, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, ON, Canada
Juan Jesus Carrero Pharm PhD (co-lead)
Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Edouard L Fu (lead, data extraction team)
MD PhD program, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Aurneen Ashur
Life Sciences BSc program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Rupert CL Beale MB BChir PhD
Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Imogen A Clase
Westdale Secondary School, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Meg J Jardine MBBS PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Program Head, Innovation & Kidney Research, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia
Nephrologist, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Meera Joseph MD
Nephrology training program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Grace Kansiime MBChB MMed
Physician, Internal Medicine Department, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Johannes FE Mann MD PhD
Professor of medicine, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Nephrologist, KfH Kidney Center, Munich-Schwabing, Germany
Roberto Pecoits-Filho MD PhD
DOPPS Program Area, Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
Wolfgang C Winkelmayer MD ScD
Gordon A Cain Chair in Nephrology, Medicine-Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Zain Chagla MD MSc (website peer review)
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, McMaster University, Hamilton , ON, Canada
Website and practical masks team
Roberta Crowther
Journey’s End Quilting, ON, Canada
Beerpal Plaha
Family medicine program, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Sophie Sutherland
Anna Chaplain to Older People, Bromley Parish Church
Hon Chaplain and Bank Chaplain King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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