I am a Professor of Biostatistics with a joint position in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Calgary.
I am also currently the President of the Statistical Society of Canada.
Much of my recent work has been in the area of infectious disease modelling, but I am also interested in Bayesian & computational statistics, experimental design, disease surveillance methods, spatio-temporal modelling, statistical learning and statistical modelling in general.
I am especially interested in behavioural-change epidemic models (BCEMs) which allow for the fact that populations tend to react to disease outbreak severity in ways that mitigate transmission, as well as individual-level models (ILMs) that account for spatial or other types of hetereogeneity in the population.
Biostatistics Graduate Studies at the University of Calgary
I am also the Graduate Coordinator of the interdisciplinary Biostatistics MSc-thesis and PhD programs at the University of Calgary, run jointly by the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Community Health Sciences. For more details please click below!
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