Supervisor Listings for Applicants
The following listings indicate Supervisors who will are potentially seeking students for Fall 2025 admission. This page is to be used as a resource when completing an admission application using Western’s online application portal. On the application, candidates will select up to three potential supervisors, and indicate 3-5 keywords indicating their research interests.
A completed online application is required to be considered for admission.
Applicants are welcome to reach out to potential supervisors at the time of applying (we recommend that PhD applicants do this). However, applicants are not required to secure a supervisor upon applying in order to be admitted to the program.
Important! Applicants are encouraged to review the Student Finances page for detailed information about student funding sources and the minimum funding amounts for MSc and PhD graduate students.
MSc Epidemiology Field of Study
Projects available in the following areas:
- Health inequities in access, utilization and outcomes of care
- Impact of ‘real-world’ health policies and interventions
- Equity-efficiency trade-offs in health system decision-making
- Economic modeling of long-term costs and benefits of health policies in mental health, dementia and addiction
- Global health inequities and policy-oriented solutions
- Health Technology assessment
Contact: shehzad.ali@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Projects available on epidemiology and health services utilization for first onset mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders, with a focus on social determinants. Students will gain experience with systematic reviews, and thesis projects involve the use of health administrative data (via ICES) or other large complex datasets.
Contact: kelly.anderson@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My area of interest is autoimmune vascular disease, specifically rheumatoid arthritis-associated cardiovascular disease, systemic vasculitis and multi-morbidity. The research includes observational cohorts, clinical trials, biomarker studies and evidence synthesis.
Contact: lillian.barra@sjhc.london.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
We are conducting a pilot RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of a live-online mindfulness-based family intervention program, Making Mindfulness Matter (M3©) for children with juvenile arthritis (JA) and their caregiver(s). Our primary aim is to evaluate whether M3© shows a positive effect on health-related quality of life in children with JA. Secondary objectives include examination of the effect of M3© on: 1) mental health in children with JA, 2) caregiver well-being, and 3) measures of disease severity such as JIA disease activity and pain.
Contact: roberta.berard@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Positions are available to explore the association of mitochondrial DNA variation and nuclear DNA ‘omics in complex disease and related phenotypes. Our goal is to uncover molecular mechanisms and pathways that may modify risk for disease via bioinformatic analysis of large scale genomic, methylomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic data from human prospective cohorts. Interest in genetic epidemiology and command line coding (R, Unix) is essential.
Contact: christina.castellani@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Social determinants of health, Social-determinants of caregiving.
Contact: kate.choi@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Quality of care and outcomes of people living with diabetes, complex comorbidities, and health disparities.
Contact: kristin.clemens@sjhc.london.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My research focuses on using Ontario health administrative data (ICES) to answer important clinical questions relevant to practising neuro-oncologists. For example, we can compare the effectiveness and side effects of PCV versus PC chemotherapy for oligodendroglioma. I am applying for funding for research projects, but none is secured yet.
Contact: seth.climans@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Currie, Cheryl
My research examines the ways in which social experiences, both positive and negative, can get under the skin to shape health, behaviour, and stress biology with a special focus on substance use among adolescents and adults.
Contact: cheryl.currie@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
One masters student is sought to join a population health research project, co-supervised by Prof. Piotr Wilk and I, to explore the effect of social determinates of health and health behaviours on the development of chronic disease, among ageing Canadians. The student will learn and apply statistical skills to establish these relationships using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging dataset.
Contact: scuschi@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Projects related to antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases epidemiology, healthcare quality, and emerging infectious diseases are available. Research approaches will include systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses, retrospective cohort studies, and case-control studies and may involve use of archived or publicly available health administrative databases.
Contact: selsayed@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Sebastian Fridman’s research focuses on stroke, neuroimaging, and the integration of artificial intelligence to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes. His work emphasizes large artery diseases such as atherosclerosis, dissections, and moyamoya, along with novel markers for stroke etiology and prevention. He is actively involved in developing combinatorial meta-analysis techniques and observational cohort studies, collaborating across multinational research networks. Fridman also explores AI’s role in addressing missing data and neuroimaging analysis.
Contact: sfridma@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Research Area: evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trial methods and reporting, systematic review methods and reporting, biostatistics, health measurement scales, patient safety initiatives and generally in musculoskeletal conditions.
His current research focuses on perioperative pain control, multi-centered clinical research, advancing the properties of outcome measurement scales, bias in patient reported outcomes, clinical cut points of patient reported outcomes in orthopedics, analyses of registry data, the quality and reporting of clinical research, surgical safety, and the efficacy of interventions for orthopaedic conditions.
Contact: jgagnie4@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
My clinical research program focuses on the brain health of critically ill children, and uses a variety of methods to help improve the outcomes for children with disorders of cognition (delirium) and consciousness (coma) in the pediatric critical care unit. The program includes projects diving deeper into the neuroscience of these clinical conditions as well as the clinical epidemiology of these conditions.
MSc (Epidemiology) applicants working with me will have the opportunity to carry out mixed methods research relevant to this clinical problem. This could include survey-based research, retrospective cohort studies and prospective research through the use of a database/registry.
Contact: rishi.ganesan@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My research examines the pathways to health inequalities over the life-course while investigating the impact of policy interventions that aim to improve health outcomes, particularly in marginalized and vulnerable populations. I am currently working on projects related to the implementation of access to oral health care policies and health workforce planning in light of the new Canadian Dental Care Plan. Students will train in mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative) and receive team-based mentorship. For more information about my lab and team. Visit Societly to Cell Oral Health Research Lab.
Contact: noha.gomaa@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My research program focuses primarily on promoting psychological resiliency and well-being and reducing the risk for suicide among older adults and other at-risk groups. My current funded studies include delivery and evaluation of a meaning-centered psychological intervention group for older adults struggling with loneliness, social isolation, and/or psychological distress, a meaning-centered group for male veterans and first-responders, and a project to evaluate the prevalence of and train healthcare providers to sensitively assess and respond to suicide risk among older Long-Term Care residents.
Contact: marnin.heisel@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
My research focuses on investigating barriers to healthcare and oral health services among populations seeking equitable access, such as those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ communities, high-risk youth, and others. I aim to understand the challenges they face and develop risk-based interventions. My current project uses community-based participatory research, engaging local and global organizations. In global health, I investigate the needs of priority groups like MSM, transgender individuals, sex workers, and fishing communities in Uganda to promote health equity.
Contact: ajessani@uwo.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: Potentially
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in the area of Environmental Health
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Air Pollution
- Climate Change
- Noise Pollution
- Environmental Justice
- Preventing chemical and Biological Exposure
- Transport, health, and environment
Potential candidates are encouraged to contact me to discuss their research ideas and interests.
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Over 20 years, my main research interests are in capacity building in Biostatistics in Africa and Bayesian spatial statistical methods and their application to epidemiology and population health including maternal and child health both in the developing countries and command economies, using large scale household data.
My research interest is the areas of:
- Biostatistics;
- Chronic Disease;
- Multimorbidity;
- Biostatistical;
- Computational Methods
- Evidence Synthesis;
- Health Technology Assessment
- Health Economics
- Epidemiological Observational Studies
- Randomized Controlled Trials
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Research interests in chronic-disease epidemiology; theoretical epidemiology.
Contact: ikarp@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Our Hepatology Clinical Research Lab's primary focus is on the epidemiology, risk stratification, and development of personalized / precision-based therapies for steatotic liver disease and post-transplant cardiometabolic diseases, including post-transplant diabetes and metabolic syndrome. We perform investigator initiated retrospective and prospective studies in addition to participating in multi-centre randomized controlled trials focused on novel therapeutics.
Contact: Qasim.Khan@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Research areas: Inflammatory bowel disease, randomized controlled trial, trial methodologies, systemic reviews, therapeutics, validation, outcome measurements
Contact: rkhanna3@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Main research area is hematology, specifically determinants of thromboembolic diseases, population-based studies, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, clinical trials, and risk-benefit analysis.
Contact: Alejandro.LazoLangner@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Research area: LGBTQ2S+ health studies in the broad field of social epidemiology
Contact: mmalta@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Students are invited to contribute to research focusing on the following areas of activity in partnership with the MEDICI Centre: Global Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care (MEDICI/WHO collaboration):
- Global studies to inform epidemiologic trends in access to safe, timely, affordable surgery, anesthesia and perioperative care.
- Health technology and policy analyses to explore innovations to improve surgery, anesthesia and critical care outcomes in global settings.
- COVID-19 global surgical backlog recovery and system resilience monitoring.
Epidemiology of Evidence, Evidence Reversals, Misinformation & Disinformation:
- Methodologic innovations to inform 'sufficiency' of evidence, and likelihood of reversal.
- Methodologic innovations to inform misinformation and disinformation in the era of 'fake' news, 'alternative' facts, and distrust in science.
- Exploration of researchers' contributions to infodemics during epidemics (ie, producing and publishing wasteful research, leading to information overload)
Contact: jmarti83@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
I conduct research examining the health care system and health system policies. My research interests are in primary care, health workforce, and rural health care. My research “lab” is currently carrying out projects on family physicians’ roles during the pandemic, the integration of registered nurses into primary care practices, the shared care and coordination of medically complex patients between family physicians and specialists, and evaluating access and care for unattached patients. We do mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative methods), so while the student’s thesis will be quantitative in nature, students will learn qualitative methods as part of (optional) RA work.
Contact: maria.mathews@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My area of expertise is in applied Population Health Management. In particular, I am interested in the collection of information related to the Quintuple Aim from representative samples of geographically-defined populations and it's use for system planning, care provision, and evaluation.
Contact: Matthew.Meyer@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
My research interests lie in global public health, health tech innovation, reproductive and fertility health in Sub-Saharan Africa and with remote communities Canada. Using approaches including systems thinking, implementation science, qualitative methods to innovate, examine and evaluate public health approaches to better healthcare access for low-resource and remote communities. My current program focuses on co-development and deployment of low-cost medical devices and technologies in Africa and Northern Canada to meet the healthcare needs and advance global health equity through affordable care.
Contact: mmutumba@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Title: Sociodemographic Disparities in Epilepsy Care in children
Synopsis: This study significantly benefits child health by examining how social determinates of health influence access to epilepsy surgery among children in Ontario. Comparing factors such as neighborhood-level income, geographic location, and access to specialized healthcare facilities, will allow us to pinpoint areas where healthcare access and outcomes may be unequal. This insight is key for creating targeted interventions and policies that ensure all children with epilepsy get fair access to surgical treatment, thereby directly benefiting their health. By understanding how social factors affect access to surgery, healthcare professionals and policymakers can implement changes to make sure all kids get the care they need. This could mean better seizure control, improved cognitive and behavioral outcomes, and ultimately, a better quality of life for children with epilepsy in Ontario.
Contact: Maryam.nouri@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Applied research on zoonotic diseases including tuberculosis and rabies, among others, using the One Health approach. Evaluation of factors impacting health at the intersection of humans, wildlife, and domestic species in different environments, globally. Students can expect to work in close partnership with government officials, clinicians, microbiologists, molecular biologists, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, wildlife biologists, affected communities, and policy and decision makers, to provide scientific evidence to guide the decision/policy making process.
Contact: francisco.olea-popelka@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Research Area: Health services research in oncology. Focus on breast and lung cancer including toxicity and survival outcomes.
Contact: jacques.raphael@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
My research focuses on exploring the negative outcomes associated with sexual behavior, severe mental illness, and the risk of violence. I conduct studies that range from systematic reviews to clinical and molecular investigations, as well as cross-sectional observational studies and pragmatic clinical trials. This multifaceted approach aims to advance our understanding and develop interventions that address these critical areas of mental health and behavior.
Contact: mdetubin@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
My research focuses on understanding the social determinants of child health disparities, emphasizing how factors like socioeconomic status, environment, and access to resources affect adolescent substance use and mental health. I explore perinatal epidemiology to assess maternal and infant health outcomes and investigate child health and nutritional epidemiology to promote better dietary practices in youth. Through this multidisciplinary approach, I aim to identify interventions that can improve health outcomes and reduce disparities among vulnerable populations.
Contact: jseabro2@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Research Area: Global Alcohol and Drug Use, Harms, and Policy Monitoring.
Contact: Kevin.Shield@camh.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
The intersection of ethics and epidemiology; modelling philosophical conceptions of justice using epidemiological methods.
Contact: maxwell.smith@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Project around virtual care services delivery and equity in access. Students will gain experience with rapid review, data organization and regression analysis methods.
Contact: nibene.some@lhsc.on.ca
Graduate Fellowship Funding available: No
Contact: saverio.stranges@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Research Area: Real-world comparative effectiveness study of incidence of dementia post cardiac rehab of men and women.
Contact: neville.suskin@lhsc.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Exploring family medicine and primary health care delivery questions using survey data and/or electronic medical record data.
Looking at issues of access to care for under-served populations in low and middle income countries using the Demographic and Health Surveys.
Contact: aterry4@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Research Area:
1) Using Demographic & Health Survey (DHS) data to inform policymakers about issues pertaining to LMICs, including (but not limited to) access to care and health services utilization for vulnerable populations, multi-morbidity, chronic diseases, IPV, etc.
2) Exploring family medicine and primary health care delivery questions in Canada using survey data and/or electronic medical record data.
Students will be Co-supervised with Dr. Amanda Terry.
Contact: athind2@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Projects available include the ethics of cluster randomized trials and the responsible implementation of new organ donation technologies. Students will gain experience in ethics, scoping reviews, interviews, and working with patient and public partners.
Contact: cweijer@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Analysis of large secondary datasets from clinical trials and data sources held at ICES.
Contact: blayne.welk@sjhc.london.on.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Research Area: Mental health, substance use, addictions, gender.
Contact: swells@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
Our international team conducts population health research on the onset and progression of chronic conditions and how they are affected by social determinants of health, health behaviours, and area-level risk factors. MSc students working with our team will apply their substantive knowledge and statistical skills to conduct analyses of high-quality Canadian and European longitudinal or cross-sectional health survey data, using advanced statistical techniques.
Contact: pwilk3@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
I am a methodologist with a focus on the design, interpretation and systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). I am particularly interested in design of randomized trials that directly inform clinical and healthcare delivery and policy decisions. These RCTs are conducted under real world conditions, often test complex interventions, and accommodate the kinds of limitations of care under usual conditions. Only a small proportion of RCTs to date use this approach. I work with students on analyses of existing RCTs to understand their real-world usefulness and to develop tools for designing new RCTs.
Contact mzwarens@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
MSc Biostatistics Field of Study
My research interest lies in developing joint models for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes and evaluating their dynamic predictions based on genetic/genomic data arising from families at high genetic risk. I am looking to work with students with strong statistics background and computational skills. Potential student projects would include development and evaluation of statistical methodology for modeling time-to-event data arising from family-based studies in the following areas:
- Joint models and dynamic predictions for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes arising from families at high genetic risk
- Competing risks models with time-dependent covariates/effects
- Model performance and prediction accuracy measures for clustered time-to-event data in the presence of competing events
- Family-based high-throughput sequencing data to be integrated into joint models.
Contact: yun-hee.choi@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My research focuses on developing statistical, machine learning, and computational methods in statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology and deep phenotyping This work is highly multi- and inter-disciplinary where methods are motivated by and applied on complex diseases particularly osteoarthritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Projects are available on the following broad areas:
- Design and analysis of multi-phase multi-omics studies
- Polygenic scores
- Latent class/variable models for longitudinal multivariate trajectories
- Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal trajectories and time-to-event outcomes
Contact: oespinga@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
Over 20 years, my main research interests are in capacity building in Biostatistics in Africa and Bayesian spatial; statistical methods and their application to epidemiology and population health including maternal and child health both in the developing countries and command economies, using large scale household data. My research interest is the areas of:
- Biostatistics
- Chronic Disease & Multimorbidity
- Biostatistical & Computational Methods
- Evidence Synthesis & Health Technology Assessment
- Health Economics
- Epidemiological Observational Studies
- Randomized Controlled Trials
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Yes
I would to supervise a graduate student at the MSc level. The topics are:
- Machine learning algorithms to estimate the prevalence of rare diseases or events
- Use of Bayesian methodologies in the Network meta analysis design
Contact: shoukri.mohamed@gmail.com
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
Research Area: Distribution-free methods for the design and analysis of clinical trials
Contact: gzou2@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: Potentially
I am a methodologist with a focus on the design, interpretation and systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). I am particularly interested in design of randomized trials that directly inform clinical and healthcare delivery and policy decisions. These RCTs are conducted under real world conditions, often test complex interventions, and accommodate the kinds of limitations of care under usual conditions. Only a small proportion of RCTs to date use this approach. I work with students on analyses of existing RCTs to understand their real-world usefulness and to develop tools for designing new RCTs.
Contact mzwarens@uwo.ca
Supervisor-Provided Funding Available: No
PhD Epidemiology Field of Study
Contact: shehzad.ali@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Projects available on epidemiology and health services utilization for first onset mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders, with a focus on social determinants. Students will gain experience with systematic reviews, and thesis projects involve the use of health administrative data (via ICES) or other large complex datasets.
Contact: kelly.anderson@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My area of interest is autoimmune vascular disease, specifically rheumatoid arthritis-associated cardiovascular disease, systemic vasculitis and multi-morbidity. The research includes observational cohorts, clinical trials, biomarker studies and evidence synthesis.
Contact: lillian.barra@sjhc.london.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Currie, Cheryl
My research examines the ways in which social experiences, both positive and negative, can get under the skin to shape health, behaviour, and stress biology with a special focus on substance use among adolescents and adults.
Contact: cheryl.currie@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Projects related to antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases epidemiology, healthcare quality, and health policy are available. Research approaches will include systematic reviews with meta-analyses, prospective cohort studies, retrospective cohort studies, and case-control studies and may involve use of local, provincial, or national health system databases.
Contact: selsayed@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Area: evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trial methods and reporting, systematic review methods and reporting, biostatistics, health measurement scales, patient safety initiatives and generally in musculoskeletal conditions. His current research focuses on perioperative pain control, multi-centered clinical research, advancing the properties of outcome measurement scales, bias in patient reported outcomes, clinical cut points of patient reported outcomes in orthopedics, analyses of registry data, the quality and reporting of clinical research, surgical safety, and the efficacy of interventions for orthopaedic conditions.
Contact: jgagnie4@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Students are invited to contribute to research focusing on the following areas of activity in partnership with the MEDICI Centre: Global Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care (MEDICI/WHO collaboration):
- Global studies to inform epidemiologic trends in access to safe, timely, affordable surgery, anesthesia and perioperative care.
- Health technology and policy analyses to explore innovations to improve surgery, anesthesia and critical care outcomes in global settings.
- COVID-19 global surgical backlog recovery and system resilience monitoring.
- Epidemiology of Evidence, Evidence Reversals, Misinformation & Disinformation:
- Methodologic innovations to inform 'sufficiency' of evidence, and likelihood of reversal.
- Methodologic innovations to inform misinformation and disinformation in the era of 'fake' news, 'alternative' facts, and distrust in science.
- Exploration of researchers' contributions to infodemics during epidemics (ie, producing and publishing wasteful research, leading to information overload)
Contact: marnin.heisel@lhsc.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research focuses on investigating barriers to healthcare and oral health services among populations seeking equitable access, such as those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ communities, high-risk youth, and others. I aim to understand the challenges they face and develop risk-based interventions. My current project uses community-based participatory research, engaging local and global organizations. In global health, I investigate the needs of priority groups like MSM, transgender individuals, sex workers, and fishing communities in Uganda to promote health equity.
Contact: ajessani@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in the area of Environmental Health
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Air Pollution
- Climate Change
- Noise Pollution
- Environmental Justice
- Preventing chemical and Biological Exposure
- Transport, health, and environment
Potential candidates are encouraged to contact me to discuss their research ideas and interests.
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Our Hepatology Clinical Research Lab's primary focus is on the epidemiology, risk stratification, and development of personalized / precision-based therapies for steatotic liver disease and post-transplant cardiometabolic diseases, including post-transplant diabetes and metabolic syndrome. We perform investigator initiated retrospective and prospective studies in addition to participating in multi-centre randomized controlled trials focused on novel therapeutics.
Contact: Qasim.Khan@lhsc.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Students are invited to contribute to research focusing on the following areas of activity in partnership with the MEDICI Centre: Global Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care (MEDICI/WHO collaboration):
- Global studies to inform epidemiologic trends in access to safe, timely, affordable surgery, anesthesia and perioperative care.
- Health technology and policy analyses to explore innovations to improve surgery, anesthesia and critical care outcomes in global settings.
- COVID-19 global surgical backlog recovery and system resilience monitoring.
Epidemiology of Evidence, Evidence Reversals, Misinformation & Disinformation:
- Methodologic innovations to inform 'sufficiency' of evidence, and likelihood of reversal.
- Methodologic innovations to inform misinformation and disinformation in the era of 'fake' news, 'alternative' facts, and distrust in science.
- Exploration of researchers' contributions to infodemics during epidemics (ie, producing and publishing wasteful research, leading to information overload)
Contact: jmarti83@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
I conduct research examining the health care system and health system policies. My research interests are in primary care, health workforce, and rural health care. My research “lab” is currently carrying out projects on family physicians’ roles during the pandemic, the integration of registered nurses into primary care practices, the shared care and coordination of medically complex patients between family physicians and specialists, and evaluating access and care for unattached patients. We do mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative methods), so while the student’s thesis will be quantitative in nature, students will learn qualitative methods as part of (optional) RA work.
Contact: maria.mathews@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My work encompasses the epidemiology of Falls, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, in Older adults. And the interaction between these factors.
Contact: Manuel.MonteroOdasso@sjhc.london.on.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Applied research on zoonotic diseases including tuberculosis and rabies, among others, using the One Health approach. Evaluation of factors impacting health at the intersection of humans, wildlife, and domestic species in different environments, globally. Students can expect to work in close partnership with government officials, clinicians, microbiologists, molecular biologists, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, wildlife biologists, affected communities, and policy and decision makers, to provide scientific evidence to guide the decision/policy making process.
Contact: francisco.olea-popelka@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research focuses on exploring the negative outcomes associated with sexual behavior, severe mental illness, and the risk of violence. I conduct studies that range from systematic reviews to clinical and molecular investigations, as well as cross-sectional observational studies and pragmatic clinical trials. This multifaceted approach aims to advance our understanding and develop interventions that address these critical areas of mental health and behavior.
Contact: mdetubin@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Area: Chronic Disease, Global Health.
Contact: saverio.stranges@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
PhD Biostatistics Field of Study
My research interest lies in developing joint models for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes and evaluating their dynamic predictions based on genetic/genomic data arising from families at high genetic risk. I am looking to work with students with strong statistics background and computational skills. Potential student projects would include development and evaluation of statistical methodology for modeling time-to-event data arising from family-based studies in the following areas:
- Joint models and dynamic predictions for various types of events—including survival longitudinal outcomes arising from families at high genetic risk
- Competing risks models with time-dependent covariates/effects
- Model performance and prediction accuracy measures for clustered time-to-event data in the presence of competing events
- Family-based high-throughput sequencing data to be integrated into joint models.
Contact: yun-hee.choi@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research focuses on developing statistical, machine learning, and computational methods in statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology and deep phenotyping. This work is highly multi- and inter-disciplinary where methods are motivated by and applied on complex diseases particularly osteoarthritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Projects are available on the following broad areas:
- Design and analysis of multi-phase multi-omics studies
- Polygenic scores
- Latent class/variable models for longitudinal multivariate trajectories
- Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal trajectories and time-to-event outcomes
Contact: oespinga@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
My research projects are in the areas of:
- primary care physician payments and practice settings on physician behaviour and various patient health outcomes;
- socio-economic inequalities in the utilization of healthcare services;
- health equity;
- cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Thesis projects will have the opportunity to use large scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey and health administrative data, and employ innovative methods to answer substantive research questions.
Contact: sisira.sarma@schulich.uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
Research Area: Non-parametric methods for longitudinal cluster randomized trials with multiple outcomes.
Contact: gzou2@uwo.ca
Student Funding is guaranteed for PhD students.
