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Curriculum vitae

Resume

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:

  • Collaborative Specialization in Public Health Policy

  • Hospital for Sick Children Research Training Center

  • ICES (formerly, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences)

  • Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)

  • Teaching Assistant Training Certificate (TATP) Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificate

  • Writing-Integrated Teaching (WIT) Program

 

 

Masters of Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology
Dalla School of Public Health, University of Toronto

​Conferred: June 2013

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Honors Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences
University of Guelph

​Conferred: June 2011

 

Minor: Mathematics
Concentration: Biomedical sciences

  • Advanced epidemiological methods & study designs

  • Advanced (bio)statistics

  • Mathematical modeling

  • Health economics

  • Public health policy

  • Population-based, linked data

  • 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Epidemiologist
Department of Public Health Sciences, Public Health Ontario; Toronto, Canada

July 2013 – March 2015

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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