Core Appointees

Saverio Stranges

Professor and Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardio-metabolic disease epidemiology and prevention, Dietary patterns, micronutrients and cardio-metabolic health, Sleep patterns, quality of life and ageing research, Global public health, Cross-cultural research in chronic disease epidemiology
Teaching: Supervision: for MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Shehzad Ali

Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Public Health Economics

Research Interests / Specializations: Monitoring equity and efficiency of health systems using administrative data, Health policy analysis using observational data, Economic evaluation for health technology assessment, Developing predictive algorithms for patient outcomes, Elicitation of value judgments and treatment preferences to inform resource allocation
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Kelly Anderson

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Public Mental Health Research & Graduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Mental Health, Health Services Research, Systematic Reviews
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

M. Karen Campbell

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Services, Maternal Health
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Yun-Hee Choi

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Genetic Epidemiology
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Biostatistics Field of Study

Allan Donner

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical Trials, Biostatistics, Epidemiological Methods
Teaching: Supervision: No longer supervising students

Osvaldo Espin Garcia

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Statistical genetics, Genetic epidemiology, Integrative multi-omics studies, Deep phenotyping, Design and analysis of multi-phase studies, Microbiome data analysis, Joint models of longitudinal and time-to-event data, Latent class/variable models
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Joel Gagnier

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Evidence-based Medicine, Randomized Controlled Trial Methods and Reporting, Systematic Review Methods and Reporting, Biostatistics, Health Measurement Scales, Patient Safety Initiatives and Musculoskeletal Conditions
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Marnin Heisel

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Aging, Mental Health, and Suicide Prevention
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Ava John-Baptiste

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Economics
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Egide Kalisa

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Air Pollution , Climate Change, Children’s Environmental Health, Environmental Justice

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biostatistics, Global public health , Health Economics, Tropical Diseases mapping, Evidence Synthesis.
Teaching: Thesis supervision for MSc & PhD

Igor Karp

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair

Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Neil Klar

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests / Specializations: Biostatistics, Cluster randomization

John Koval

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests / Specializations: Epidemiological Methods, Regression Models

Dan Lizotte

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Statistics, Medical Health Informatics
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Biostatistics Field of Study

Monali Malvankar

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Management Science, Health Economics, Health Policy, Cost-effectiveness, Analysis, HIV Policy Analysis, Simulation
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Studey

Janet Martin

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Technology Assessment, Evidence-Based Decision-Making, Health Economics & Health Policy, Meta- Analysis & Systematic review
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Maria Mathews

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Physician Workforce, Primary Health Care, Access to Care, and Health Care in Rural Communities.

Francisco Olea-Popelka

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: One health, public health, veterinary medicine, epidemiology, domestic species, wild animals, and humans.

Nicole Redvers

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Health, Planetary Health, Traditional Medicine, Indigenous Knowledge Translation, Indigenous Global Health

Bridget Ryan

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Primary Care Research
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Sisira Sarma

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Economics, Health Policy, Cost-effectiveness, Health Services Research, Health Inequality
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Jamie Seabrook

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Social determinants of health disparities, adolescent substance use and mental health, perinatal epidemiology, child health, nutritional epidemiology
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Kathy Speechley

Professor Emerita

Research Interests / Specializations: Child Health Survey Methods, Health-Related Quality of life
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Mark Speechley

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests / Specializations: Falls, Injuries, Eldery, Methods
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Amanda Terry

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Primary health care services research, health informatics, data quality, patient-oriented research
Teaching: Supervision: MSc and PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Amardeep Thind

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Services Research, International Health
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Evelyn Vingilis

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests / Specializations: Population Health, injury prevention and control, mental health
Teaching: Supervision: No longer supervising students

Piotr Wilk

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Population health, Child health and well-being, Social determinants of health, Research methodology and statistical analysis
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Epidemiology Field of Study

Guangyong (GY) Zou

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Health-Related Quality of Life
Teaching: Supervision: MSc & PhD students, Biostatistics Field of Study

Merrick Zwarenstein

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Centre for Studies for in Family Medicine
Teaching: Supervision: MSc students, Epidemiology Field of Study