Supervisor Listings for Applicants
The following listings indicate Supervisors who will are potentially seeking students for Fall 2027 admission. This page is to be used as a resource when completing an admission application using Western’s online application portal. On the application, candidates will select up to three potential supervisors, and indicate 3-5 keywords indicating their research interests.
A completed online application is required to be considered for admission.
Applicants are welcome to reach out to potential supervisors at the time of applying (we recommend that PhD applicants do this). However, applicants are not required to secure a supervisor upon applying in order to be admitted to the program.
Important! Applicants are encouraged to review the Student Finances page for detailed information about student funding sources and the minimum funding amounts for MSc and PhD graduate students.
MSc Epidemiology Field of Study
Research Area: Severity weighting of health outcomes for economic evaluation of drugs and other technologies.
Contact: shehzad.ali@uwo.ca
Projects available on epidemiology and health services utilization for youth onset mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders, with a focus on social factors, such as migrant status or neighbourhood marginalization. Students will gain experience with systematic reviews, and thesis projects involve the use of health administrative data (via ICES) or other large complex datasets. Please see our research group website (www.pmhrg.com) for a summary of ongoing projects and student thesis work.
Contact:kelly.anderson@schulich.uwo.ca
We are conducting a pilot RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of a live-online mindfulness-based family intervention program, Making Mindfulness Matter (M3©) for children with juvenile arthritis (JA) and their caregiver(s). Our primary aim is to evaluate whether M3© shows a positive effect on health-related quality of life in children with JA. Secondary objectives include examination of the effect of M3© on: 1) mental health in children with JA, 2) caregiver well-being, and 3) measures of disease severity such as JIA disease activity and pain.
Contact: roberta.berard@lhsc.on.ca
Dr. Blanchette is an adjunct scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). His research specializes in health services research focusing of cancer clinical outcomes, health equity and drug safety.
Contact: phillip.blanchette@lhsc.on.ca
Positions are available to explore the association of mitochondrial DNA variation (mtDNA copy number and heteroplasmy sequence variation) and nuclear DNA omics (epigenomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics) in complex disease and related phenotypes. Our goal is to uncover molecular mechanisms and pathways that may modify risk for disease via bioinformatic analysis of large scale genomic, methylomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic data from human prospective cohorts. Interest in genetic epidemiology and command line coding (R, Unix) is essential.
Contact: christina.castellani@schulich.uwo.ca
Study 1: Sexual behavior regulations and biomarkers. We will investigate molecular changes in blood samples of individuals presenting compulsive sexual behavior and paraphilic disorder.
Study 2: The Therapeutic Risk Management for Violence for Decreasing Aggressive Behavior of Psychiatry Inpatients. We will investigate the effect of an experimental intervention for the occurrence of violent behaviors.
Study 3: Sexual Behavior Disorders in Ontario: Population Epidemiology, Health-Service Utilization, and Longitudinal Mental-Health Risk Trajectories Using ICES Data.
Contact: mdetubin@uwo.ca
Research Area: Epidemiology of infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, and healthcare quality.
Contact: selsayed@uwo.ca
Research Area: evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trial methods and reporting, systematic review methods and reporting, biostatistics, health measurement scales, patient safety initiatives and generally in musculoskeletal conditions.
His current research focuses on perioperative pain control, multi-centered clinical research, advancing the properties of outcome measurement scales, bias in patient reported outcomes, peptides for healing, classic psychedelics in pain control, analyses of registry data, the quality and reporting of clinical research, surgical safety initiatives.
Contact: jgagnie4@uwo.ca
Research Area: Child/youth health, substance use, mental health, physical activity, healthy eating, social and environmental determinants, GIS/geospatial analysis, community-based research
Contact: jgillila@uwo.ca
My research focuses on understanding barriers to healthcare and oral health services among populations experiencing inequities, including people living with HIV, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, high-risk youth, and other underserved populations. I aim to identify the challenges they face and develop evidence-informed, risk-based interventions. My current projects use community-based participatory research, engaging local and global community partners. In global health, I investigate health system barriers affecting priority populations advancing health equity.
Contact: ajessani@uwo.ca
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of:
- Environmental Health & Air Pollution
- Climate Change: Wildfires, Heatwaves & Extreme Events
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice & Health Equity
- Black, African & Caribbean Communities
- Immigrant & Newcomer Health
- Global Health, One Health & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- E-mobility, Sustainable Transport & Healthy Cities
- Chemical & Biological Exposures
- School-Based Environmental Health Interventions
- Behaviour Change & Risk Communication
- Citizen Science & Community-Engaged Research
- AI & Machine
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Research Area: Tropical diseases modelling and Bayesian approach
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Projects available associated with:
- Use of artificial intelligence in family medicine & primary care
- Analysis of primary care electronic medical record data to explore health services provision
Joint supervision by Drs. Terry, Lizotte, and Thind who conduct mixed methods research.
Contact: dlizotte@uwo.ca
I conduct research examining the health care system and health system policies. My research interests are in primary care, health workforce, and rural health care. My research "lab" is currently carrying out projects on family physicians’ roles during the pandemic, the integration of registered nurses into primary care practices, the shared care and coordination of medically complex patients between family physicians and specialists, and evaluating access and care for unattached patients. We do mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative methods), so while the student’s thesis will be quantitative in nature, students will learn qualitative methods as part of (optional) RA work.
Contact: maria.mathews@schulich.uwo.ca
Population Health Management is a relatively new and evolving movement in health system design and delivery. As described by the World Health Organization, it represents "a data-driven, people-centred and proactive approach to managing the health and well-being of a defined population." My research focuses on elements of the implementation and delivery of Population Health Management at scale in Ontario and it's ability to address some of our greatest challenges.
Contact: mmeyer7@uwo.ca
Our research connects epidemiology with decisions in military health, Veteran care, and other high-risk occupation sectors, including first responders communities. Working directly with the Canadian military and public safety populations, we study topics such as PTSD, moral injury, resilience, co-occurring mental and physical health conditions, and access to care. MSc students gain experience analyzing clinical, occupational and population survey data. Projects offer opportunities to work with partners who use findings to guide services, prevention and policy.
Contact: Anthony.Nazarov@sjhc.london.on.ca
Nishiura, Hiroshi
My research interests span the areas of epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemiological modeling and biomathematical formulation of the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. My research group uses various mathematical and statistical models for all of our original studies. Not only communicable diseases, we expand our research interests to chronic disease prediction, modeling studies on climate change, and application of statistical models to toxicological and environmental risk assessments.
Contact: TBA
Research program focuses on evaluating factors impacting health at the intersection of humans, wildlife, and domestic species in different environments, globally. A key component of this research is to use an applied, integrated, inter-disciplinary approach using epidemiological methods and tools in which environmental, socio-economical, cultural, and political factors are considered when addressing different health challenges.
My main area of research focuses in zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) including studies/projects involving badgers, bovines, elephants, humans, lions, warthogs, among others species.
Contact: francisco.olea-popelka@schulich.uwo.ca
Available projects are in the following areas:
- primary care access, quality, and health outcomes
- physician payment systems and incentives on physician behaviour
- inequalities/inequities in the utilization of healthcare services and health outcomes
MSc-level thesis projects are expected to address a well-defined research question, grounded in a comprehensive literature review that identifies existing knowledge gaps. Students will apply an appropriate analytical framework (epidemiological, statistical, or health economics/econometrics) and use relevant real-world data to conduct their research.
Contact: ssarma2@uwo.ca
Research Area:
- Identify determinants of substance use (e-cigarettes, tobacco, cannabis, alcohol) among youth, as well as strategies to prevent, reduce, and/or manage substance use.
- Identify determinants of unhealthy sedentary behaviours among youth, as well as strategies to increase physical activity.
- Identify determinants of unhealthy dietary behaviours among youth, as well as strategies to improve
food literacy and healthy eating habits. - Identify determinants of unhealthy sleep-related behaviours and sleep outcomes among youth, as well as strategies to improve sleep health.
Contact: jseabro2@uwo.ca
Research Area: Chronic disease epidemiology, global health.
Contact: saverio.stranges@uwo.ca
Projects available associated with:
- Use of artificial intelligence in family medicine & primary care
- Analysis of primary care electronic medical record data to explore health services provision
- Using the Demographic and Health Surveys to understand health services utilization in LMICs
Joint supervision by Drs. Terry, Lizotte, and Thind who conduct mixed methods research.
Contact: aterry4@uwo.ca
Projects available associated with:
1) Use of artificial intelligence in family medicine & primary care
2) Analysis of primary care electronic medical record data to explore health services provision
3) Analysis of questionnaire data re: social isolation and loneliness among older adults with multimorbidity
Joint supervision by Drs. Terry, Lizotte, and Thind who conduct mixed methods research.
Contact: athind2@uwo.ca
My research examines healthy ageing and health equity through a CIHR-funded evaluation of Canada’s Age-Friendly Communities initiatives. Students will analyse population surveys, health records, and community data to examine differences in health and social outcomes, while developing skills in multilevel modelling and quasi-experimental methods. Applicants’ coursework and early research experiences should demonstrate strong quantitative skills and an emerging academic interest in healthy ageing.
Contact: pwilk3@uwo.ca
MSc Biostatistics Field of Study
My research focuses on developing statistical, machine learning, and computational methods in statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology and deep phenotyping This work is highly multi- and inter-disciplinary where methods are motivated by and applied on complex diseases particularly osteoarthritis, Crohn's disease, and cancer. Projects are available on the following broad areas:
- Design and analysis of multi-phase multi-omics studies
- Polygenic scores
- Latent class/variable models for longitudinal multivariate trajectories
- Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal trajectories and time-to-event outcomes
Contact: oespinga@uwo.ca
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of:
- Environmental Health & Air Pollution
- Climate Change: Wildfires, Heatwaves & Extreme Events
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice & Health Equity
- Black, African & Caribbean Communities
- Immigrant & Newcomer Health
- Global Health, One Health & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- E-mobility, Sustainable Transport & Healthy Cities
- Chemical & Biological Exposures
- School-Based Environmental Health Interventions
- Behaviour Change & Risk Communication
- Citizen Science & Community-Engaged Research
- AI & Machine
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Research Area: Tropical diseases, maternal and child health, chronic diseases.
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
Available projects are in the following areas:
- primary care access, quality, and health outcomes
- physician payment systems and incentives on physician behaviour
- inequalities/inequities in the utilization of healthcare services and health outcomes
MSc-level thesis projects are expected to address a well-defined research question, grounded in a comprehensive literature review that identifies existing knowledge gaps. Students will apply an appropriate analytical framework (epidemiological, statistical, or health economics/econometrics) and use relevant real-world data to conduct their research.
Contact: ssarma2@uwo.ca
Statistical modeling of rare events. Using likelihood methods of estimation. An example of rare events is rare diseases.Comparison with machine learning algorithms will be made so that predictions can be made with reasonable certainty.
Contact: shoukri.mohamed@gmail.com
PhD Epidemiology Field of Study
Projects available on epidemiology and health services utilization for youth onset mental disorders, particularly psychotic disorders, with a focus on social factors, such as migrant status or neighbourhood marginalization. Students will gain experience with systematic reviews, and thesis projects involve the use of health administrative data (via ICES) or other large complex datasets. Please see our research group website (www.pmhrg.com) for a summary of ongoing projects and student thesis work.
Contact: kelly.anderson@schulich.uwo.ca
Research Area: Epidemiology of infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, and healthcare quality.
Contact: selsayed@uwo.ca
Research Area: evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trial methods and reporting, systematic review methods and reporting, biostatistics, health measurement scales, patient safety initiatives and generally in musculoskeletal conditions.
His current research focuses on perioperative pain control, multi-centered clinical research, advancing the properties of outcome measurement scales, bias in patient reported outcomes, peptides for healing, classic psychedelics in pain control, analyses of registry data, the quality and reporting of clinical research, surgical safety initiatives.
Contact: jgagnie4@uwo.ca
At the Society-to-Cell Oral Health Lab (S2CL), we harness our global collaborations and community partnerships to: (1) characterize the modifiable risk factors to prevalent oral diseases and related non-communicable chronic diseases with a focus on the exposomal factors and biological embedding processes over the life course, and (2)evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of oral health-focused clinical and policy interventions. Our goal is to improve oral health and oral health equity for underserved and medically complex populations, in Canada and globally.
Contact: noha.gomaa@schulich.uwo.ca
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of:
- Environmental Health & Air Pollution
- Climate Change: Wildfires, Heatwaves & Extreme Events
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice & Health Equity
- Black, African & Caribbean Communities
- Immigrant & Newcomer Health
- Global Health, One Health & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- E-mobility, Sustainable Transport & Healthy Cities
- Chemical & Biological Exposures
- School-Based Environmental Health Interventions
- Behaviour Change & Risk Communication
- Citizen Science & Community-Engaged Research
- AI & Machine
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Research Area: Tropical diseases, maternal and child health, chronic diseases.
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
I conduct research examining the health care system and health system policies. My research interests are in primary care, health workforce, and rural health care. My research "lab" is currently carrying out projects on family physicians’ roles during the pandemic, the integration of registered nurses into primary care practices, the shared care and coordination of medically complex patients between family physicians and specialists, and evaluating access and care for unattached patients. We do mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative methods), so while the student’s thesis will be quantitative in nature, students will learn qualitative methods as part of (optional) RA work.
Contact: maria.mathews@schulich.uwo.ca
Our research spans prevention, treatment and recovery, with interests including PTSD, moral injury, chronic pain and workplace mental health. We work directly with the Canadian Armed Forces, Veterans, public safety personnel, clinicians and government partners to address questions that inform care and policy. PhD students develop research aligned with their interests using clinical, occupational and population data. Opportunities include studying treatment outcomes, health trajectories and social determinants of health, with scope for advanced analysis, health measurement and evidence synthesis.
Contact: Anthony.Nazarov@sjhc.london.on.ca
Nishiura, Hiroshi
My research interests span the areas of epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemiological modeling and biomathematical formulation of the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. My research group uses various mathematical and statistical models for all of our original studies. Not only communicable diseases, we expand our research interests to chronic disease prediction, modeling studies on climate change, and application of statistical models to toxicological and environmental risk assessments.
Contact: TBA
Research program focuses on evaluating factors impacting health at the intersection of humans, wildlife, and domestic species in different environments, globally. A key component of this research is to use an applied, integrated, inter-disciplinary approach using epidemiological methods and tools in which environmental, socio-economical, cultural, and political factors are considered when addressing different health challenges.
My main area of research focuses in zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) including studies/projects involving badgers, bovines, elephants, humans, lions, warthogs, among others species.
Contact: francisco.olea-popelka@schulich.uwo.ca
Available projects are in the following areas:
- primary care access, quality, and health outcomes
- physician payment systems and incentives on physician behaviour
- topics in health inequalities/inequities
PhD-level projects are expected to address major research questions. These projects should employ innovative conceptual and empirical methodologies to produce high-quality research, leading to at least three major publications. Students will have access to a variety of data sources, including large-scale longitudinal health administrative data, representative survey data, and linked survey–administrative data.
Contact: ssarma2@uwo.ca
Thousands of exercise stress tests are performed annually in Canada to assess for underlying cardiac disease including the demonstration of peak exercise capacity. We have demonstrated that using the entrenched protocols result in less than 40% of tests being able to demonstrate true peak exercise performance in certain groups such as women and the elderly, subjecting them to misclassification of disease severity. By testing a novel treadmill power equation derived testing protocol compared to standard protocols, we plan to correct this gap. This involves testing 25 women and 25 men with cardiac disease, twice.
Contact: neville.suskin@lhsc.on.ca
Research Area: chronic disease epidemiology, global health.
Contact: saverio.stranges@uwo.ca
Research Area: Ethics of cluster randomized trials evaluating implementation strategies promoting the uptake of evidence based clinical or public health practices
Contact: cweijer@uwo.ca
My research examines healthy ageing and health equity through a CIHR-funded evaluation of Canada’s Age-Friendly Communities initiatives. Students will analyse population surveys, health records, and community data to examine differences in health and social outcomes using multilevel modelling and quasi-experimental methods. Applicants’ advanced statistical training and substantive research experience in healthy ageing should demonstrate readiness for independent, methodologically rigorous epidemiological research.
Contact: pwilk3@uwo.ca
PhD Biostatistics Field of Study
My research program focuses on developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine.
My research areas include:
- Algorithms and applications of artificial intelligence (deep learning) for health and medical sciences
- Algorithms for bioinformatics
- Algorithms for statistical genetics
- Integration frameworks of deep learning and statistics
Contact: phu49@uwo.ca
I am accepting qualified graduate students interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of:
- Environmental Health & Air Pollution
- Climate Change: Wildfires, Heatwaves & Extreme Events
- Children’s Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice & Health Equity
- Black, African & Caribbean Communities
- Immigrant & Newcomer Health
- Global Health, One Health & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- E-mobility, Sustainable Transport & Healthy Cities
- Chemical & Biological Exposures
- School-Based Environmental Health Interventions
- Behaviour Change & Risk Communication
- Citizen Science & Community-Engaged Research
- AI & Machine
Contact: ekalisa2@uwo.ca
Research Area: Tropical diseases modelling and Bayesian approach.
Contact: nkandala@uwo.ca
