In recent months, more studies are emerging regarding how various nations and regions fared during the initial two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada is cited as an example of a country that had performed reasonably well versus other countries with comparable infrastructures and health care systems (Razek et al., 2022). The reason is largely attributed to a combination of several public health measures coupled with widespread vaccination uptake, as a result of a country-wide vaccination campaign. This paper is based on a keynote talk given at the Autumn 2021 CJRES Annual Conference, by Dr. Isaac I. Bogoch. Dr Bogoch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and an Infectious Diseases Consultant in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Bogoch was a member of Ontario’s Vaccine Distribution Taskforce, which helped guide vaccine policy during the initial rollout of COVID-19 vaccines between December 2020 through August 2021. Dr. Bogoch explains the unique vaccine policy in the Province of Ontario and in particular the social innovation around prioritising the most vulnerable and disadvantaged neighbourhoods first, thus leading to an important intra-regional social policy view of vaccine efforts on the path beyond the ‘emergency phase’ of the COVID-19 pandemic. What is clearly obvious from his presentation is the heightened role of urban geography tools and techniques and intra-regional policy in vaccine equity efforts. Policy lessons learned in Ontario may help us sort out future urban, social, economic, epidemiologic and public health challenges and their sometimes-complex intersections in regions, economy and society. The following is an edited transcript from Dr. Bogoch’s talk.

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COVID-19 疫苗：加拿大安大略省疫苗接种工作的地理、社会和政策观点

最近几个月，关于不同国家和地区在 COVID-19 大流行的最初两年中表现如何的更多研究不断涌现。加拿大被列为一个国家的例子，该国家与其他具有可比基础设施和医疗保健系统的国家相比表现得相当好（Razek 等人，2022）。原因主要归因于多项公共卫生措施与广泛的疫苗接种相结合，这是全国范围内的疫苗接种运动的结果。本文基于 Isaac I. Bogoch 博士在 2021 年秋季 CJRES 年会上发表的主题演讲。Bogoch 博士是多伦多大学医学系的副教授，也是多伦多总医院传染病科的传染病顾问。博士 Bogoch 是安大略省疫苗分发工作组的成员，该工作组在 2020 年 12 月至 2021 年 8 月期间首次推出 COVID-19 疫苗期间帮助指导了疫苗政策。Bogoch 博士解释了安大略省独特的疫苗政策，尤其是社会创新围绕首先优先考虑最脆弱和处境不利的社区，从而导致在 COVID-19 大流行的“紧急阶段”之后的道路上对疫苗工作产生重要的区域内社会政策观点。从他的演讲中可以清楚地看出，城市地理工具和技术以及区域内政策在疫苗公平工作中的作用越来越大。在安大略省吸取的政策教训可能有助于我们理清未来的城市、社会、经济、流行病学和公共卫生挑战及其在地区、经济和社会中有时复杂的交叉点。以下是 Bogoch 博士演讲的经过编辑的文字记录。