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Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes Risk
In his new paper, anchored in a population-based cohort study, our Pop Health Analytics team member Christopher Tait, alongside Drs. Mary L’Abbé, Peter Smith, and Laura Rosella, analyzed the association between food insecurity and incident type 2 diabetes in...
In-Profile: Emmalin Buajitti
Seeing is believing, or so is the case with Pop Health Analytics’ practicum student and visualization virtuoso Emma Buajitti. After completing her Honours Bachelor of Science from UofT, with majors in physiology and health studies, Emma joined the Dalla Lana School of...
Health Equity in Ontario: Chief Medical Officer of Health’s Annual Report
The Chief Medical Officer of Health Report Earlier this year, the Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario, Dr. David Williams, issued a report entitled: Improving the Odds: Championing Health Equity in Ontario. The report focused on health equity in Ontario and...
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...