OEH Seminar: Work and Health Risks Faced by Digital Platform Drivers During COVID-19
Title: Work and health risks faced by digital platform drivers during COVID-19 Digital platform drivers, such as Uber Eats, Amazon Flex, and Lyft drivers were busier than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic as the public attempted to avoid illness by ordering take-away food, shopping online and taking ride-hails rather than...
PM 2.5: What it Is and Why it Matters
In 2021, recognizing the health burden of exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the World Health Organization cut its guideline for annual average exposure in half. Now 86% of Canadians live in areas that exceed the new WHO guideline. Exposure to air pollution is estimated to cause 7 million deaths...
R Workshop: Taking ggplot2 beyond single plots: Maximizing information transfer
Please join The Health Data Working Group for a virtual workshop with Matt Castelo, General Surgery Resident and PhD Candidate in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. Open to students, faculty, and researchers. Register at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodOCopjgvHd0k5b8AhZrFk6vv9_P-ZNez Download: HDWG_ggplot2withMatt
Roundtable: “Sick humour: social behavioural research on humor and living with HIV”
Who, when, how and why would anyone related #humor to living with #HIV. Let's talk with those with experience on a roundtable, Friday, February 25, 2022. REGISTER #FREE here https://bit.ly/HUMOR_HIV_RESEARCH Funded by @CAHR_ACRV and @CAGH_ACSM with collaboration of @theohtn
Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with: Dr. Rebecca Hubbard
Join us at the Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with: Dr. Rebecca Hubbard Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Free Event | Registration Required Talk Title: Using electronic health records to accelerate research without sacrificing scientific rigor...
Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility
CANSSI Ontario and the Data Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto are excited to host the Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility, February 23-25, 2022. This three-day workshop brings together academic and industry participants on the critical issue of reproducibility in applied statistics and related areas. This virtual workshop is free...
Health Inc: Corporations, capitalism, and commercial determinants of health – Seminar 4
Seminar 4 Title: Manufacturing evidence: Industry sponsorship and conduct of research Famously, tobacco industry executives were quoted as saying, “doubt is our product.” The study of internal documents across tobacco, alcohol, chemical, soft drink, sugar, and pharmaceutical industries has produced a body of evidence describing the ways that corporations seek...
Achieving Net Zero: Energy Transitions and the Art of Governing Public Health
Transitioning and transforming our energy systems to meet ‘net-zero’ carbon emissions targets presents a variety of challenges for public health. Among them are energy (in)security and the health and environmental effects of new energy technologies. Governing, too, presents a challenge. In our uneven, ‘post-truth’ world, marked by growing distrust in...
NAO Lecture Series: A conversation with experts in England and the United States on the COVID-19 pandemic
The United Kingdom and the United States experienced some of the world’s highest COVID-19 death rates, and are the two countries that are most frequently compared with Canada in health systems and policy studies. In this NAO Lecture, two experts – Lynn Unruh and Gemma Williams – who have been...
Biostatistics Seminar Series with Dr. Osvaldo Espin-Garcia on Next-generation Sequencing
The Biostatistics Seminar Series presents: “Cost-reduction Strategies for Post-GWAS Next-generation Sequencing Studies” by Dr. Osvaldo Espin-Garcia, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have greatly helped in advancing our understanding of the genetic underpinnings of human health and disease by identifying thousands of genetic loci associated with a...