Assistant Professors

(1) evaluating the health benefits of energy and environmental interventions in developing countries; (2) investigating the impacts of air pollution composition and sources on health; (3) understanding the chronic disease impacts of environmental exposures over the life course.

Dr. Chevrier investigates the impact of exposure to common environmental contaminants on child health and development.  His work focuses on emerging and legacy contaminants such as pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), bisphenol A (BPA), polybrominated diphenylether (PBDE) flame retardants, and dioxins.  He studies the effect of these chemicals on the endocrine system, perinatal outcomes, child growth and neurodevelopment.  He also applies and develops causal inference methods to address methodological issues in environmental and occupational epidemiology.  He is the Project Director of the Venda Health Examination of Mothers, Babies and their Environment (VHEMBE), a birth cohort study of 751 mother-child pairs investigating the effect of public health insecticides on child development in South Africa.

Dr. Daftary uses qualitative methods to study the social contexts of illness, health-seeking behaviours, and health service delivery for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. Her research is based in sub-Saharan Africa, India and Canada. She is involved in a number of implementation science mixed-methods projects to improve management of undiagnosed TB, TB-HIV coinfection, and multi and extensively drug-resistant TB through patient-centered models of care.

Dr. Filion's research interests include pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, knowledge synthesis, and cardiovascular epidemiology. He uses large, population-based databases to study the safety of commonly prescribed medications, with a particularly interest in cardiovascular medications and cardiovascular outcomes. He is the Co-Lead of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Team of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), a pan-Canadian drug safety network funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In addition, Dr. Filion is involved in a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses examining the efficacy and safety of cardiovascular therapies.

Housing and health; public health surveillance (extreme heat & heat vulnerability; noise; green spaces)

Research focuses on the population health effects of public policies and programs in a global context. Other interests include: (1) assessing multilevel associations between social and economic determinants, including both individual-level and population-level exposures, and population health and (2) applying causal methods for addressing challenges to the study of social determinants of health.

Dr. Richer's main projects involve the improvement of social inequalities in health as well as the adaption and the evaluation of programs, notably in the area of mother-child health programs.

My research interest includes methods for observations and epidemiological studies, in particular: Time-dependent Predictive Accuracy; Classification, Diagnostic and Prognostic Accuracy; Specimen Pooling; Patient Privacy.

Prenatal and early life exposures and child growth and development; social disparities in pregnancy outcomes; life-course epidemiology, and social determinants of health.

Dr. Weichenthal's research is focused on understanding the impact of the built environment on air pollution exposures in urban areas as well as the short and long-term health effects of air pollution exposures. He is particuarly  interested in the role of oxidative stress in determining air pollution health effects.  Dr. Weichenthal works closely with collaborators both nationally and internationally to address research questions in this area.