Core Faculty

Saverio Stranges

Professor and Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardio-metabolic disease epidemiology and prevention, Dietary patterns, micronutrients and cardio-metabolic health, Sleep patterns, quality of life and ageing research, Global public health, Cross-cultural research in chronic disease epidemiology
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Shehzad Ali

Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Public Health Economics

Research Interests / Specializations: Monitoring equity and efficiency of health systems using administrative data, Health policy analysis using observational data, Economic evaluation for health technology assessment, Developing predictive algorithms for patient outcomes, Elicitation of value judgments and treatment preferences to inform resource allocation
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Kelly Anderson

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Public Mental Health Research & Graduate Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Mental Health, Health Services Research, Systematic Reviews
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

M. Karen Campbell

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Services, Maternal Health
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Yun-Hee Choi

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Genetic Epidemiology
Teaching: Biostatistics Field of Study

Cheryl Currie

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Social Epidemiology, Epidemiologic Methods, Addictive Behaviour, Marginalized Populations
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Osvaldo Espin Garcia

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Statistical genetics, Genetic epidemiology, Integrative multi-omics studies, Deep phenotyping, Design and analysis of multi-phase studies, Microbiome data analysis, Joint models of longitudinal and time-to-event data, Latent class/variable models
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study, Biostatistics Field of Study

Joel Gagnier

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Evidence-based Medicine, Randomized Controlled Trial Methods and Reporting, Systematic Review Methods and Reporting, Biostatistics, Health Measurement Scales, Patient Safety Initiatives and Musculoskeletal Conditions
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Marnin Heisel

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Aging, Mental Health, and Suicide Prevention
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Ava John-Baptiste

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Economics
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Egide Kalisa

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Air Pollution , Climate Change, Children’s Environmental Health, Environmental Justice
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biostatistics, Global public health , Health Economics, Tropical Diseases mapping, Evidence Synthesis.
Teaching: Biostatistics Field of Study

Igor Karp

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair

Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Ellen Kuenzig

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Inflammatory bowel disease; health services research; environmental risk factors; health administrative data; systematic reviews
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Dan Lizotte

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Statistics, Medical Health Informatics
Teaching: Biostatistics Field of Study

Monali Malvankar

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Management Science, Health Economics, Health Policy, Cost-effectiveness, Analysis, HIV Policy Analysis, Simulation
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Janet Martin

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Technology Assessment, Evidence-Based Decision-Making, Health Economics & Health Policy, Meta- Analysis & Systematic review
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Maria Mathews

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Physician Workforce, Primary Health Care, Access to Care, and Health Care in Rural Communities.
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Francisco Olea-Popelka

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: One health, public health, veterinary medicine, epidemiology, domestic species, wild animals, and humans.
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Nicole Redvers

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Health, Planetary Health, Traditional Medicine, Indigenous Knowledge Translation, Indigenous Global Health
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Bridget Ryan

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Primary Care Research
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Sisira Sarma

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Economics, Health Policy, Cost-effectiveness, Health Services Research, Health Inequality
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Jamie Seabrook

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Social determinants of health disparities, adolescent substance use and mental health, perinatal epidemiology, child health, nutritional epidemiology
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Amanda Terry

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Primary health care services research, health informatics, data quality, patient-oriented research
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Amardeep Thind

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Health Services Research, International Health
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Piotr Wilk

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Population health, Child health and well-being, Social determinants of health, Research methodology and statistical analysis
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study

Guangyong (GY) Zou

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Health-Related Quality of Life
Teaching: Biostatistics Field of Study

Merrick Zwarenstein

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Centre for Studies for in Family Medicine
Teaching: Epidemiology Field of Study, Biostatistics Field of Study