STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Manolis Kellis
Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Dr. Manolis Kellis Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Director of the MIT Computational Biology Group Talk Title: From genomics to therapeutics: Single-cell dissection and manipulation...
Data Science Speaker Series/Temerty Centre Speaker Series: Melissa Haendel
Prof. Melissa Haendel, Professor, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, joins the Data Sciences Speaker Series (DSSS)/Temerty Centre Speaker Series. This talk is co-sponsored by the Data Sciences Institute, Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine, and Temerty Faculty...
John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health
Global Health Equity & Covid-19 – Where do we go from here? The Centre for Global Health would like to invite you to the John R. Evans Lectureship in Global Health scheduled to take place on Tuesday May 2nd from Noon-2pm. We are thrilled to announced that Professor Agnes Binagwaho...
Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Dr. Kate Tilling
Join us at the Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with: Dr. Kate Tilling Professor of Medical Statistics and MRC Investigator, Bristol Medical School (PHS) Bristol Population Health Science Institute MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit Free Hybrid Event | Registration Required Talk Title Selection Bias, Missing Data and Causal...
How Informed is Informed Refusal
Full Title: How Informed is Informed Refusal? Abstract: Valid consent in medical practice requires that the patient is relevantly informed. The degree and kind of information required by valid consent are both disputed, but it is widely agreed that this requirement is non-trivial. Since consent and refusal are opposed yet...
Cervical Cancer, Vaccine Equity, and Global Solidarity
Cervical Cancer, Vaccine Equity, and Global Solidarity: Fighting for the Health of Women and Girls Cervical cancer is preventable, yet more than 340,000 women die each year. Approximately 90% of these deaths take place in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where access to prophylactics, diagnostics and treatments for cervical cancer...
Using Immersive Technology as a Medium to Teach Empathy, Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Join the Ontario Nursing Informatics Group for an upcoming virtual education event! We are pleased to welcome Dr. Eva Peisachovich RN, PhD, an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at York University, to present her research on "Using Immersive Technology as a Medium to Teach Empathy, Interpersonal and Communication...
Fast, vast, and diverse: Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine programs
Canada's COVID-19 vaccination programs took a unique approach in several ways. During the pandemic, we saw shifts in federal rather than provincial purchasing, speed of authorization and implementation, expanding and changing vaccine recommendations over relatively short time frames, and extremely diverse programs throughout the country despite centralized recommendations from a...
Crosswalks with Census Data using R
This workshop will provide an introduction to harmonizing data across spatial scales, with a particular emphasis on creating geographic crosswalks. Often, spatially-resolved data are available at non-uniform scales, and In different data types. For example, a researcher may wish to summarize hospital locations (point data), environmental exposures (raster data) and...
Thematic Cartography for Health Geographers
Maps can be great tools for exploratory analysis and communicating research findings. This workshop will cover intermediate-to-advanced thematic cartography aimed to help health geographers visualize their data. The first part of the workshop will provide general guidelines for designing better maps (symbology, layers and hierarchy, balance and alignment, and accessibility)....