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Professor Jay S. Kaufman Discusses the Art and Science of Statistical Adjustments
Stats, Stats, Stats This past Thursday, Dr. Jay S. Kaufman, professor and epidemiology program director at McGill University, Montreal, gave a presentation titled Statistics, Adjusted Statistics and Maladjusted Statistics at the Medical Sciences Building here...
Dr. Rosella Examines Chronic Conditions at Time of Death
Health Affairs Panel Discussion On March 6, 2018, Dr. Laura Rosella delivered a presentation at a National Health Policy Conference (on behalf of Health Affairs) in Washington, D.C. alongside panelists Dr. Ana M. Progovac and Tracy M. Layne. All three discussed the...
LHIN Mortality Atlas: Trends in Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks
The Atlas, and What It Shows The LHIN Mortality Atlas, developed by the Population Health Analytics laboratory as an initiative of the OPTIMISE research program, explores the trends in Ontario’s local health integration networks from 1992-2015. Specifically, the...
Todd Norwood Wins Elaine Hector Student Award
The Award Our very own Todd Norwood was recently awarded The Elaine Hector award at the 2017 APHEO (Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario) Conference in Guelph, Ontario. The conference, which focused on fostering partnerships and moving data to...
Predicting Obesity: The Development of OPoRT
Obesity Population Risk Tool (OPoRT) A newly published research paper, authored by our own Dr. Laura Rosella, alongside Odvaldo Espin-Garcia, Michael Lebenbaum and Ye Li, explains and validates the development of OPoRT (Obesity Population Risk Tool). This risk tool...
Predicting High Health Care Resource Utilization in a Single-payer Public Health Care System
High Resource User Population Risk Tool (HRUPoRT) A newly published research paper, lead by our very own Dr. Laura Rosella, and featuring the work of Population Health Analytics team members Catherine Bornbaum and Kathy Kornas, explains and validates the development...