GEM2's Co-Leads

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

Prof. Maheu-Giroux is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Population Health Modeling.  He is an "Associated Researcher" at the Institut de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ). He is an interdisciplinary public health researcher and his work focuses primarily on 1) infectious disease modeling, 2) epidemiology and surveillance, and 3) impact and economic evaluations of public health interventions.

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Talía Malagón

Dr. Talía Malagón is an epidemiologist, mathematical modeller, and assistant professor in the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology at McGill University and at St Mary’s Research Centre. Her research projects include understanding the predictors of human papillomavirus transmission between sexual partners, risk factors for cervical precancer, and decision modeling to evaluate the balance of screening harms and benefits of cervical cancer screening, and health inequalities in cancer incidence and cancer care pathways.

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Caroline Wagner

Caroline Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at McGill University. She holds an MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, where she used experiment and theory to study the microscopic and macroscopic rheological properties of mucus. She then trained as a postdoctoral fellow in mathematical disease modeling at Princeton University. Her research program focusses on understanding interactions between pathogens and biological fluids, and modeling the effect of such interactions on population-level disease transmission and dynamics.

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Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
Talía Malagón
Caroline Wagner

GEM2's Team Members

Research Associates and Assistant

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Carla Doyle, PhD

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Yiqing Xia, PhD

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Andrey Kutsyh, MSc

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Rebecca Winkelaar

Postdoctoral fellows

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Darren Flynn-Primrose, PhD

Doctoral students

Zeinab Cherri

Zeinab Cherri, MSc

Aregawi Gebreyesus Belay

Aregawi Gebreyesus Belay, MSc

Sarah Dickson

Sarah Dickson, MSc

Samuel Lowe

Sammy Lowe, MSc

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Thilor Ndiaye, MSc

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Emma Wallens, MSSA, MPH

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Rosa Maria Oscanoa, MSc

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Callum Mullen, MScPH

Masters students

Aïché Danioko

Aïché Danioko, BSc

Gershon Hayford-Mbrah

Gershon Hayford-Mbrah, OD

Ayla Shanks

Ayla Shanks, BSc

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Abiha Raza, BA