Principal Investigator & Scientific Director
Laura Rosella, PhD, MHSc, is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Population Health Analytics Lab. She is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Population Health Transformation and Analytics. She is the Chief Scientist and Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Public Health, the Education Lead for the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM), and the Associate Director of Education and Training at the University of Toronto’s Data Science Initiative (DSI). Her additional scientific appointments include Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute and the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and Site Director for ICES UofT.
Dr. Rosella’s research interests include population health and health equity, data science, predictive models to support public health planning, knowledge translation and evaluation, and population health management. She has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of epidemiology, population health and health services research. Notably, she was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, elected into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, and she is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). Her research has been featured by several media outlets, including Forbes, Newsweek, Reuters, CBC, CTV, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star.