2022

  • December 5-15, 2022

    WEBSC Wellness Station

    Visit WEBSC's Wellness Station from December 5 to December 15 (10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) for Cookie decorating, Hot drinks, Snacks, Destress activities and Peer support.

  • December 2, 2022

    Annual Carol Buck Lecture and Graduate Scholarship

    Join us on Friday, December 2, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. EST for the Annual Carol Buck Lecture and Graduate Scholarship presentation. Dr. Mark Speechley, Professor of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University will be the 2022 Carol Buck Lecturer.

  • November 25, 2022

    Seminar Series: Franca Barbic

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speaker Franca Barbic from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University (Italy).

  • November 18, 2022

    Seminar Series: Aisha Langford

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speaker Aisha Langford, Assistant Professor at the Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  • November 11, 2022

    Seminar Series: Karen Lawford

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speaker Karen Lawford, Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Queen's University.

  • October 28, 2022

    Seminar Series: Fiona Kouyoumdjian

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speaker Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University and Adjunct Scientist, ICES.

  • October 21, 2022

    Seminar Series: Peter Austin

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speaker Peter Austin, Full Professor at the University of Toronto and Senior Core Scientist with ICES.

  • October 14, 2022

    Seminar Series: Petros Pechlivanoglou

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speaker Petros Pechlivanoglou, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation

  • October 7, 2022

    Seminar Series: Kevin McIntyre and Emma Smith

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speakers Kevin McIntyre and Emma Smith, PhD Candidates in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University will present the October 07 seminar.

  • September 30, 2022

    Seminar Series: Selam Mequanint, Scott Draper and Danny Kim

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speakers Selam Mequanint, Scott Draper and Danny Kim from the London Health Sciences Centre.

  • September 26, 2022

    Visiting Professor Seminar: Prof. Angelo Brandelli Costa and Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari

    Please join us for this seminar with visiting Professor Angelo Brandelli Costa and Anna Marth Vaitses Fontanari from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil.

  • September 23, 2022

    Seminar Series: Alison Locker

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speakers Alison Locker, Manager of Population Health Assessment and Surveillance at the Middlesex-London Health Unit.

  • September 16, 2022

    Seminar Series: Dr. Ava John-Baptiste & Dr. Yun-Hee Choi

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with speakers Dr. Ava John-Baptiste and Dr. Yun-Hee Choi, Associate Professors in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at Western University.

  • August 2022

    WEBSC August Workshop Series

    The Western Epidemiology and Biostatistics Student Council (WEBSC) is pleased to present our annual workshop series this month. The webinar series consists of sessions led by upper-year graduate students and faculty members in the department and will cover a broad range of topics, including methodological issues, statistical programming, and research in terms of EDIDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization and Indigeneity) principles.

  • June 3, 2022

    EDID Dialogues: Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

    Please join us for EDID Dialogues with Dr Abbas Jessani and Yoshith Perera, who will lead a conversation on phobias that the 2SLGBTQA+ community is subjected to and the resulting challenges in accessing health services.

  • May 24, 2022

    Visiting Professor: Prof. Paolo Chiodini

    Please join us for this seminar with visiting Professor Paolo Chiodini, Full Professor of Biostatistics from the University of Campania (Italy).

  • Friday, April 1, 2022

    2022 Allan Donner Lecture: Guangyong Zou, PhD

    Join us for the 2022 Allan Donner Lecture with Guangyong Zou, PhD.

  • March 25, 2022

    Seminar Series: Dr. Charles Weijer

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with guest speaker Dr. Charles Weijer, Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy at Western University.

  • March 18, 2022

    Seminar Series: Jay Kaufman, PhD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with guest speaker Jay Kaufman, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.

  • March 11, 2022

    Seminar Series: Thierry Veyrié, PhD

    Please join the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Master of Public Health Program for the Regna Darnell Distinguished Lecture in Theory, Ethnography and Activism in Anthropology with speaker Thierry Veyrié, PhD, Dr. Veyrié is the director of the Wayadeaga Apegan, Fort McDermitt Nonprofit Organization and a research associate with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Anthropology Department, at Indiana University - Bloomington.

  • March 4, 2022

    Seminar Series: Melissa McCradden, M.HSc, PhD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with guest speaker Melissa McCradden, PhD, Bioethicist with the Department of Bioethics and Researcher with the Genetics & Genome Biology Program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario.

  • February 18, 2022

    Seminar Series: Jaime Delgadillo, PhD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with guest speaker Jaime Delgadillo, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, at the University of Sheffield, UK.

  • February 11, 2022

    Seminar Series: Yun-Hee Choi, PhD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series with guest speaker, Yun-Hee Choi, PhD. Dr. Choi is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics, in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University.

  • February 04, 2022

    Seminar Series: Noha Gomaa, BDS, MSC, PHD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series, with speaker Noha Gomaa, BDS, MSc, PhD. Assistant Professor and Associate Director for Dentistry Research, Schulich Dentistry at Western University.

  • January 28, 2022

    Seminar Series: Tara Elton-Marshall, PhD, and Sameer Imtiaz, PhD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series, with Dr. Tara Elton-Marshall and Dr. Sameer Imtiaz. Dr. Elton-Marshall will present results from a CIHR funded Team grant triangulating evidence to better understand the impact of cannabis legalization in Ontario including impacts on cannabis use, cannabis impaired driving. Dr. Imtiaz will present findings from a CCSA funded project examining the impacts of cannabis legalization on alcohol consumption.

  • January 21, 2022

    Seminar Series: Nibene Somé, PhD

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series, with speaker, Nibene Somé, PhD, Independent Scientist/Health Economist at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

  • January 14, 2022

    Seminar Series: Dr. John Ataguba

    Please join us for our weekly seminar series, with speaker Dr. John Ataguba, Professor of Economics and Director, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town.