Recommendations for equitable COVID-19 pandemic recovery in Canada.

"Competing interests: Nav Persaud reports being a member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (travel expenses paid for the Public Health Agency of Canada [PHAC]), and being an unpaid adviser to the pan-Canadian Advisory Panel on a Framework for a Prescription Drug List. Dr. Persaud also reports receiving grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada Research Chairs Program, and the Ontario Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) SUPPORT Unit. James Dunn reports receiving personal fees from the City of Toronto (Toronto Public Health) for research on policy options for healthy housing. Stephen Hwang reports serving on the Board of Directors for Good Shepherd Ministries (volunteer, unpaid role), being Chair of the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the Inspire Quitting Study (funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health [volunteer, unpaid role]), and being a member of the Research Committee for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (volunteer, unpaid role). Dr. Hwang also reports receiving fees as the principal investigator (PI) on a CIHR Foundations Grant for Interventions Research in Homelessness, Housing and Health, and as PI on a CIHR Operating Grant for a COVID-19 cohort study of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto. Dr. Hwang reports receiving fees as a health care provider for Inner City Health Associates (funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health). Jonathon Maguire reports receiving grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Ontario Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Support Unit. Andrew Pinto reports serving on the Advisory Board of the Alliance for Healthier Communities, and being an unpaid advisor to Muto Health Solutions. Dr. Pinto also reports receiving grants from CIHR; the Ontario government, including the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; the PSI Foundation; the Maytree Foundation; the Atkinson Foundation; the Metcalf Foundation; the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation; and the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit. Dr. Pinto has received honoraria for presentations at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, the University of Toronto (2019), McMaster University (2020) and the University of Ghent (2020). Dr. Pinto reports receiving salary support from the following: Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital; Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. Dr. Pinto was the recipient of the 2019 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship. Patricia O’Campo reports being the Board Chair for the United Way of Greater Toronto, which funds agencies serving women living with intimate partner violence. Dr. O’Campo also reports receiving funding from CIHR as the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Interventions, and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for 2 grants concerning domestic violence. Sean Rourke reports receiving consulting fees as expert advisor for strategic implementation from the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Rourke also reports receiving grants from CIHR and PHAC, paid to St. Michael’s Hospital, and grant support from the Annual Foundation, paid to the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (no payments to Dr. Rourke). Daniel Werb reports receiving support from CIHR via a New Investigator Salary Award and from the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation. Dr. Werb is also named on a pending patent for a drug-checking device. No other competing interests were declared."

"Funding: The guideline process was supported by funding from the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation which was not involved in the conception, development or communication of the recommendations."