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Pop Health Analytics team support #HowsMyFlattening COVID-19 data efforts
The Population Health Analytics Lab has been contributing recently to howsmyflattening.ca, an initiative led by Dr. Ben Fine to aggregate data and resources about coronavirus in Ontario. Over 150 people have volunteered to work on the website, including Dr. Laura...
In Profile: Lori Diemert
The Population Health Analytics Lab is thrilled to welcome Lori Diemert into the role of Project Manager. Lori attained her MSc. in Health Studies and Gerontology from the University of Waterloo and joins the lab with a breadth of experience in population health...
Sabrina Chiodo wins Elaine Hector Student Award
The Award Our very own Sabrina Chiodo was recently awarded The Elaine Hector award at the 2019 APHEO (Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario) Conference in Kingston, Ontario. The conference, which focused on fostering partnerships and moving data to...
In-Profile: Stacey Fisher
Harnessing the power of big data and making sense of it, so we can make better population health decisions is the aim for data science guru and new Population Health Analytics Post-Doctoral Fellow Stacey Fisher. After completing her Master of Science in Epidemiology...
Research2Reality shines a spotlight on the Population Health Analytics Lab
The Population Health Analytics Lab was recently featured on Research2Reality(R2R) which is a national not-for-profit project to help Canadians understand the value and impact of research. R2R shines a spotlight on world-class scientists engaged in innovative &...
Predicting Obesity: Application of OPoRT
In her new paper, using population health survey data, our Pop Health Analytics team member Meghan O’Neill, alongside, Kathy Kornas and Laura Rosella, predict the future burden of obesity in Canada among important population subgroups using OPoRT (Obesity Population...