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The 60th Anniversary Symposium of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health (EBOH), part of the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) that was held on the 18th of November 2025. Our symposium, 鈥淭he Department at 60: Insights from the Past, Directions for the Future,鈥� brought together leading scholars to reflect on six decades of excellence, innovation, and impact in epidemiology, biostatistics, and occupational health. Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate this milestone and reflect on the past, present, and future of population and global health.

Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Rebecca Fuhrer is a Professor and past Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. She led the creation of the MScPH program and served as its first Director for five years. Former Canada Research Chair in Psychosocial Epidemiology, Professor Fuhrer鈥檚 research focuses on the social determinants of mental health, including the occurrence and trajectories of mental health problems across the life course. A Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, she has served on scientific advisory boards in Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, and currently serves on the Board of HDRN Canada. She holds degrees from the City University of New York (BA) and the University of California, San Francisco (MS, PhD).

Lesley Fellows is Vice-President (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at 9I制作厂免费. A neurologist specializing in disorders of cognition and a neuroscientist studying the brain basis of decision making, she is also a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, where she has been on faculty since 2004. As Dean, Professor Fellows champions excellence in interdisciplinary and translational research, education, and clinical care to improve health locally and globally.

Jos茅e Dupuis is the Strathcona Chair in Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. Prior to joining 9I制作厂免费 in 2022, she spent nearly 20 years on the faculty at Boston University School of Public Health, where she was Chair of the Department of Biostatistics. Her research focuses on developing statistical methods to elucidate the genetic basis of complex diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Professor Dupuis holds a BSc in Statistics from Concordia University and MSc and PhD degrees in Statistics from Stanford University.

James (Jim) Hanley is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. He began his career as a clinical trials statistician before joining 9I制作厂免费 in 1980, where he taught across the department鈥檚 programs and collaborated extensively on public health research. His work has focused on evaluating the performance of diagnostic tests and the mortality benefits of cancer screening. Since retiring in 2023, he has continued to pursue interests in the history of statistics and public health.

Gilles Paradis is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. He founded and directed the Quebec Population Health Research Network and the Quebec Training Program in Public Health Research and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Professor Paradis has chaired the Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute for Population and Public Health and the International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. He completed his medical degree at Universit茅 de Montr茅al, an MSc and specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at 9I制作厂免费, and a fellowship at Stanford University.

Jean-Fran莽ois Boivin is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费, where he served on faculty from 1978 to 2015. A specialist in community medicine, he has contributed extensively to research and training in epidemiology and public health. From 2011 to 2017, he also practiced addiction medicine at the Herzl Family Practice Centre of the Jewish General Hospital. Professor Boivin holds a medical degree from Universit茅 Laval and a PhD in Epidemiology from Harvard University and completed specialty training in community medicine at Universit茅 de Montr茅al.

Samy Suissa is a Distinguished James 9I制作厂免费 Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine at 9I制作厂免费 and Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital. He co-leads the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES). His research focuses on the real-world effects of medications for chronic diseases such as respiratory, cardiovascular, and rheumatic conditions, with expertise in pharmacoepidemiologic methods. Professor Suissa has authored over 600 peer-reviewed papers and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Robyn Tamblyn is a Professor of Medicine, a James 9I制作厂免费 Chair, and a Medical Scientist at the 9I制作厂免费 Health Centre, where she directs the 9I制作厂免费 Clinical and Health Informatics Research Group. She served as Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research from 2011 to 2018. Professor Tamblyn鈥檚 research focuses on improving the safety and effectiveness of health care delivery through data-driven innovation. She is also the Director of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the 9I制作厂免费 Health Centre.

Laura C. Rosella is a Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. She is the founder of the Population Health Analytics Lab and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Professor Rosella has authored more than 300 publications and has received numerous honours, including Canada鈥檚 Top 40 Under 40, election to the Royal Society of Canada, the CIHR-IPPH Mid-Career Trailblazer Award, and Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Arijit Nandi is a Professor at 9I制作厂免费 jointly appointed to the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. His research examines macro-level determinants of population health and health inequalities, with a focus on evaluating the health impacts of social policies in global contexts. Professor Nandi uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study the effects of public programs on population health. He is the principal investigator of the PROSPERED project and a founding member of the 9I制作厂免费 Public Policy & Population Health Observatory (3PO).

Elizabeth A. Stuart is the Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Chair and Bloomberg Professor of American Health in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the Departments of Mental Health and Health Policy and Management. Her research focuses on methods for estimating causal effects in experimental and observational studies. Professor Stuart received her PhD in Statistics from Harvard University and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Statistical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Alexandra M. Schmidt is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to Bayesian spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, particularly in environmental and epidemiological applications. A former President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, she is a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and ISBA, and a recipient of the ASA Distinguished Achievement Medal. Professor Schmidt鈥檚 research advances statistical methods for modelling complex spatial processes, including air pollution and disease dynamics.

David Buckeridge is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费, where he directs the Surveillance Lab, an interdisciplinary group that develops, implements, and evaluates computational methods and software for population health and health system monitoring. He is also the Chief Digital Health Officer and the lead for Data Science and Digital Health Research at the MUHC. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Population Health Informatics and is an Associate Member with the Montreal AI Institute (Mila). He has an MD (Queen's), an MSc in Epidemiology (Toronto), a PhD in Biomedical informatics (Stanford), and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.

Jill Baumgartner is a Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and Equity, Ethics and Policy at 9I制作厂免费, and Director of the 9I制作厂免费 Centre for Climate Change and Health. Her research examines the impacts of climate change and environmental exposures on human health, with a focus on air pollution and environmental policy evaluation. She collaborates widely on global environmental monitoring and epidemiological studies and serves on advisory committees for the World Health Organization, the Health Effects Institute, and Project Drawdown.

Mabel Carabali is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Methods to Address Health Inequalities in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. She is an infectious diseases and social epidemiologist whose research focuses on addressing underreporting and misclassification in epidemiological studies, advancing statistical methods to examine intersectionality, and investigating health disparities.

Rina Lall is a PhD candidate and social epidemiologist in training with a deep interest in maternal and child health. She holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biochemistry and a master鈥檚 degree in public health (MScPH, 9I制作厂免费). She has worked as a junior epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Canada and as an intern in the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy at 9I制作厂免费. Rina is passionate about teaching and is committed to training future generations of public health professionals.

Rodolphe Thiebaut is a Professor of Public Health and Biostatistics at the University of Bordeaux and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. He directs the Inserm U1219 Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre and leads the SISTM (Statistics in Systems Biology and Translational Medicine) group, an INRIA-recognized project team dedicated to data science in immunology. Professor Thiebaut also heads the Department of Medical Information at Bordeaux Hospital and leads the Graduate Program in Digital Public Health, a joint initiative with 9I制作厂免费.

Qihuang Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 9I制作厂免费. His research focuses on developing statistical and machine learning methods for omics data, with an emphasis on addressing uncertainty, complex data structures, and measurement error in biomedical applications. He leads the Statistical Genomics and Intelligence Learning Lab (StaGILL), which bridges methodological innovation with real-world health research.

Robert Platt is Director of the School of Population and Global Health and Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics at 9I制作厂免费. He holds the Albert Boehringer I Endowed Chair in Pharmacoepidemiology and is Principal Investigator of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES). His research focuses on methods for studying medications using administrative data, with emphasis on causal inference and drug safety in pregnancy. Professor Platt is Editor-in-Chief of Statistics in Medicine and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology.

Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e is the Inaugural Chair and Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy and Professor in the Department of Sociology at 9I制作厂免费. She is the founding Director of the 9I制作厂免费 Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms and the Executive Director of CAnD3, an international consortium supporting evidence-based decision making. Professor Quesnel-Vall茅e鈥檚 research examines how policies shape social inequalities in health over the life course. A two-time Fulbright awardee and Fellow of multiple professional associations, she has held leadership roles with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the International Sociological Association and is frequently sought by international media as an expert on health policy and population health.

Abstracts

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This (pre-recorded) presentation uses some online resources to document one aspect of the department鈥檚 contribution to the Advancement of Learning, the university鈥檚 initial mandate. As of Nov 18, the 鈥榮lides鈥�, the 鈥榣yrics鈥�, and the video recording, along with some additional material, will also be available via the link on听under the heading 鈥�鈥�

Epidemiology鈥檚 most enduring contributions stem from a commitment to methodological exactness and a disciplined focus on questions that matter for population health. Yet the accelerating shifts in data, technology, and societal structures require us to interrogate whether our current approaches are calibrated for the problems we face. This talk celebrates and reflects on our methodological heritage while pressing us to extend our designs, measures, and analytic strategies to better represent the realities of modern populations. By drawing on richer data environments and more coherent conceptual frameworks, epidemiology can preserve its scientific rigour while offering deeper understanding of the evolving dynamics of population health.

Improving population health involves using data and evidence to inform decision-making about things such as which policies and programs to implement. But how can we ensure that the data and analyses are relevant and useful for specific decisions? This talk will discuss the principles of causal inference, in particular scenarios where there is interest in examining the effects of exposures, policies, or programs on populations of interest. Topics include the need for representative data, the value of randomization, approaches when randomization isn't possible, and how artificial intelligence can support the goals of estimating population effects, while also being mindful of its limitations.

EBOH graduates work in diverse settings, including universities, public health agencies, and industry and increasingly encounter large datasets, work in multidisciplinary teams, and must adapt to new technologies. Graduate programs often emphasize 鈥渟ophisticated methods鈥� over applying methods in complex real-world settings, but many settings require skills in descriptive analysis, data science (programming, software tools), artificial intelligence for analytics and workflow automation, communication, and soft skills like collaboration and project management. Panel members will share their perspectives on the rapidly changing employment context our graduates are entering and reflect on how EBOH programs should evolve so that graduates can continue to advance science and impact population health.

The department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health is a unique institution, with strength in statistical and epidemiological methods, strong connections with clinical and public health communities, and an exceptional record of teaching and research. In 2019, the School of Population and Global Health was formed, and EBOH became a core department within the School along with the departments of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and of Global and Public Health. I will briefly review this history and discuss opportunities for EBOH that arise because of the School. The School offers research, teaching, and experiential learning that will broaden the opportunities for researchers and students in EBOH. I will describe already existing opportunities and look to the future at what we might develop as the School continues to take shape. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Chairs of the School鈥檚 three departments.

Scientific Program Committee

Alexandra Schmidt, David Buckeridge, Gilles Paradis, Jill Baumgartner, Rebecca Fuhrer (Chair), Seungmi Yang

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