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Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health

Purvis Hall

The Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health offers separate graduate training programs in each of its three broadly defined disciplines. Please refer to the Graduate Studies page for more information on the prerequisites and training requirements for the degrees specific to each discipline.

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is a joint department with Occupational Health

 


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PhD Protocol Defenses

Erika Braithwaite

Topic: Examining the impact of parental incarceration on children’s mental health and substance abuse

Friday, October 11, 2013
9:00 am
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave W.
Room 24

PhD Oral Defenses

Melanie Henderson

Topic: Lifestyle habits and their relation to insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion in youth

Wednesday, October 23, 2013
9:45 am
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave W.
Room 24


Shujie Li

Topic: A recursive Polya tree mixture model: computationally efficient Bayesian nonparametric modeling

Thursday, November 7, 2013
3:00 pm
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave W.
Room 24


Epidemiology Seminar Series

Helen Tremlett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine (Neurology) and associate member of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of
British Columbia, Canada.
Funding: MS Society of Canada and
The Michael Smith Foundation for
Health Research (Scholar Award)

Topic:  Using population-based
data linkage to investigate MS epidemiology:  recent findings from
 British Columbia,
Canada

Monday, October 7, 2013
4:00 to 5:00
Purvis Hall 1020 Pine Ave W.
Room 25

Biostatistics Seminar Series

M'Hamed Lajmi Lakhal Chaieb, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université Laval.

Topic:  Multivariate Survival Cure Model.

Tuesday October 8, 2013
3:30 to 4:30
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. W.
Room 25


Biostatistics Reading Group

Wednesdays 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Purvis Hall, room 48
Schedule