Curriculum vitae
I am a CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Yale School of Public Health (start date: October 2020). My research primarily focuses on communicable diseases, child health, health equity, health services outcomes, and health policy.
My complete CV can be found here (date of last update: November 2020).
Expertise
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Epidemiology
Dalla School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Conferred: November 2020
Supervisors: Drs. David Fisman and Astrid Guttmann
Committee members: Drs. Jeff Kwong and Dayre McNally
Collaborators: Drs. Thérèse Stukel and Ashleigh Tuite
Dissertation Title: Severe RSV-related illness among Ontario children: using population-based, administrative data to
comprehensively identify high-risk children and evaluate population interventions
Trainee/ Fellow:
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Collaborative Specialization in Public Health Policy
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Hospital for Sick Children Research Training Center
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ICES (formerly, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences)
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Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)
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Teaching Assistant Training Certificate (TATP) Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificate
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Writing-Integrated Teaching (WIT) Program
Masters of Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology
Dalla School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Conferred: June 2013
Honors Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences
University of Guelph
Conferred: June 2011
Minor: Mathematics
Concentration: Biomedical sciences
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Advanced epidemiological methods & study designs
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Advanced (bio)statistics
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Mathematical modeling
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Health economics
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Public health policy
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Population-based, linked data
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Academic writing
Software Skills
Advanced: SAS | R | MS Excel
Intermediate: MATLAB | TreeAge
ArcGIS | WinBUGS
Basic: Netlogo | HTML
Employment
Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow
Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Public Health Modeling Unit; New Haven, USA
October 2020 - Current
Supervisors: Drs. Daniel Weinberger and Virginia (Ginny) Pitzer
Research area: Understanding spatial and population mixing variations in the transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to inform optimal vaccine delivery strategies
Research Assistant (Part-time)
North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, University of Toronto
May 2020 – Current
Supervisor: Dr. Sara Allin
Research: Public health and health systems responses responding to COVID-19 across Canada
Epidemiologist (P/T)
Hospital for Sick Children, Child Health Evaluative Sciences; Toronto, Canada
August 2016 – September 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Astrid Guttmann
Research: Several multi-national child health research projects with a focus on health services, health policy and social inequities
Honorary Research Assistant (P/T, Full-time role July-August 2019)
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health; Population, Policy & Practice Programme, University College London; London, United Kingdom
June 2019 – May 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Pia Hardelid
Research: Antibiotic prescribing attributable to respiratory viruses among Scottish children
Metadata Specialist (P/T role from Sept 2016 onwards)
Ontario Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Support Unit (OSSU); Toronto, Canada
April 2015 – April 2018
Supervisor: Dr. David Henry
Program: Leading the Ontario Health Metadata Mapping Project
Epidemiologist I (P/T)
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research Unit Mount Sinai Hospital; Toronto, Canada
April 2016 – September 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Coleman
Research: Systematic review of risk factors for severe influenza infection in low- and middle-income countries
Epidemiologist
Department of Public Health Sciences, Public Health Ontario; Toronto, Canada
July 2013 – March 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Rosella
Research: Various research projects related to health services research, social determinants of health, health policy, etc. including high cost users of healthcare, diabetes, and risk of bias tools
Research Assistant
Ontario Health Study; Toronto, Canada
April 2013 – July 2013
Supervisors: Drs. Lyle Palmer (PI) and Victoria Landsman (Chief Statistician)
Research: Studying survey non-response; GIS analyses; executive reports
Practicum Student
Divisions of Pediatric Medicine and Infectious Disease, Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto, Canada
May 2012 – September 2012
Supervisors: Drs. Daniel Roth and Shaun Morris
Research: Meta-analysis of respiratory infection case definition variations in South Asian children
Research Assistant (P/T), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Toronto, Canada
January 2012 – March 2012
Supervisor: Dr. Rosie Thein
Research: Short-term WHO contract creating an Excel-based tool for a global disease burden model for Hepatitis C
NSERC Research Assistant
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph; Guelph, Canada
May 2010 – August 2010
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Bauch
Research: Modeling the impact and costs of various immunization distribution strategies aiming to control multiple common pediatric communicable diseases