Epidemiology Seminar Series
RSVP: epi.dlsph@utoronto.ca Speakers: 1) Dr. Sonia Grandi - “The Use of Observational Data to Emulate Target Trials Among Pregnant Women” Sonia Grandi, PhD is a Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Division of Epidemiology in...
Something in the Air: Aerosol and Pandemics
This will be the first keynote in a series of upcoming lectures from The Institute for Pandemics focused on future pandemic readiness. This keynote features Dr. Kim Prather from UCSD as well as an international roundtable. --- Understanding how communicable diseases spread is the key to their control. During the...
Biostatistics Seminar Series with Dr. Divya Sharma on Deep Learning Models
The Biostatistics Seminar Series presents: “Deep Learning Models for Time Series Prediction and their Application to Longitudinal Microbiome Data” by Dr. Divya Sharma, University Health Network Abstract: Microbiome inherently is dynamic in nature, attributing to the presence of interactions among microbes, microbes and the host, and with the environment. Researchers...
Biostatistics Seminar Series with Dr. Ervin Sejdić on AI in Medicine
The Biostatistics Seminar Series presents: “Artificial intelligence in Medicine” by Dr. Ervin Sejdić, University of Toronto Abstract: Artificial intelligence is an exciting field spanning computer science, engineering, mathematics and statistics. In recent years, it has become a hot topic that promises to revolutionize many aspects of our daily lives ranging...
Biostatistics Seminar Series with Dr. Aya Mitani on Multilevel Data
The Biostatistics Seminar Series presents: “Analysis of Complex Multilevel Dental Data with Informative Tooth-loss” by Dr. Aya Mitani, University of Toronto Abstract: Periodontal disease is a serious gum infection that may lead to loss of teeth. Using standard marginal models to examine the association between patient-level predictors and tooth-level outcomes...
MHSc in Bioethics Information Session
What is bioethics? Bioethics is concerned with finding practical answers to difficult value-based questions faced by patients and families, health professionals, health researchers, health administrators and health policymakers. The aim of the field of bioethics is to improve health. Interdisciplinary in nature, bioethics draws from many areas across the humanities,...
Researching Surrogacy: The Ethics of Research Approaches to Gay Fatherhood
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series 2021-22 Speaker: Sophia Fantus, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work About this Seminar: The visibility of same-sex parent families and the increased use of surrogacy worldwide have expanded LGBT parenting scholarship to include experiences...
Health AI Ethics and Governance: The WHO Guidance, Can It Make a Difference?
In this lecture Effy Vayena (Professor of Bioethics, ETH Zurich) will discuss the recently released guidance by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the ethics and governance of Health AI. The guidance is an attempt to move global governance efforts forward. With this as her starting point, she will aim...
Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar: “Health effects of natural gas operations in Northeast British Columbia”
Title: Health effects of natural gas operations in Northeast British Columbia Élyse’s research is focused on the development of transdisciplinary community-based research projects to assess the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on health by combining information from multiple levels of biological organization. As part of her talk, Elyse will present her...
Webinar: Greenness, Public Health and Adapting to Climate Change
This summer was one of the hottest on record – especially in Canadian cities – and the accelerating rate of climate change means future summers will be hotter for longer, leading to increased heat-related deaths and health issues. By the middle of the century, the number of days over 30℃...