Ernest Lo
Ernest Lo holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University and a Masters in biostatistics from McGill. He has worked in diverse fields including theoretical ecology, neuroimaging and bioinformatics. He is currently a biostatistician and research scientist at the Quebec Public Health Institute (INSPQ), as well as Adjunct Professor in the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill. His mandates include health forecasting, the measurement of social inequalities in health and the development and refinement of statistical methods used in public health.
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Statistical methodologies for public health surveillance and application to public health policy-making. Measures of population health, health forecasting analyses and methodology. Current projects: improving the bias and efficiency properties of the life expectancy estimator for small populations, projection analyses of obesity prevalence, projection analyses of cancer mortality and incidence.