DLSPH Graduate Awards in Data Science for Public Health and Health Systems

 

The Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Data Science for Population Health and Health Systems is one of the five priority research areas at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), which responds to the importance of advancing data sciences, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in informatics and analytics to improve population health and health systems performance. The Data Science cluster has the following key areas of focus: fosters important conversations and critical thinking, supports novel interdisciplinary research, and advances education and training.

The DLSPH Data Science Interdisciplinary Research Cluster offered $10,000 stipends to support DLSPH graduate trainees conducting novel research and/or developing new methods in data science and artificial intelligence to improve population health and health system performance.

 

Beiwen Wu

Project Title: Comprehensive investigation of lipidomics in the risk of aerodigestive tract (ADT) cancers by evidence triangulation

Supervisor(s): Dr. Rayjean J. Hung

Giancarlo DiGiuseppe

Project Title: Using machine learning methods to predict acute kidney injury in adolescents and young adults affected by cancer and hospitalized with COVID-19

Supervisor(s): Dr. Jason D. Pole

Lief Pagalan

Project Title: Using Machine Learning and Environmental Data to Predict and Prevent Premature Mortality in Canadian Cities: Developing Decision-Support Tools to Inform Health System Planning

Supervisor(s): Dr. Laura Rosella

Jasper Zhongyuan Zhang

Project Title: Machine learning algorithm development for complex missing structure imputation on multi-omics data

Supervisor(s): Dr. Wei Xu

Joseph Donia

Project Title: Critical questions for data-intensive health innovation: A design ethics case study

Supervisor(s): Dr. Jay Shaw & Dr. Jennifer Gibson

Jo-Ann Osei-Twum

Project Title: Comparing data science approaches to population health management and the associated health equity implications

Supervisor(s): Dr. Laura Rosella

Rose Garrett

Project Title: The role of sensitivity analysis in handling untestable assumptions in analyses of electronic health record data: an example in pediatric healthcare

Supervisor(s): Dr. Eleanor Pullenayegum (in collaboration with Dr. Brian Feldman)

Vinyas Harish

Project Title: Assessing the stability of machine learning models to dataset shift during the COVID-19 pandemic

Supervisor(s): Dr. Laura Rosella & Dr. Kamran Khan