Jay S. Kaufman

Jay S. Kaufman

Professor

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University
Purvis Hall Building, 4oom 45
1020 Pine Avenue
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A2

Tel.: 514-398-7341
Fax: 514-398-4503
E-Mail: jay.kaufman [at] mcgill.ca
Office: Purvis Hall Building, room 45

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After a post-doctoral position at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine (Chicago, IL) from 1995-1997, Dr. Kaufman was Medical Epidemiologist at Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, NC) from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 through 2008 he held a positions as Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health at Chapel Hill and as Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center.  In 2009 he began his current position as Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University.  He is also currently appointed as Visiting Professor in the School of Public Health of the University of Chile, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health (Ann Arbor, MI), and Adjunct Professor Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC). 

Dr. Kaufman's work focuses on social epidemiology, analytic methodology, causal inference and on a variety of health outcomes including perinatal outcomes and cardiovascular, psychiatric and infectious diseases. He is an editor at the journal “Epidemiology” and an associate editor at “American Journal of Epidemiology”. With J. Michael Oakes he is the co-editor of the textbook “Methods in Social Epidemiology”. He has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

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