Epidemiology Now!: Recent Episodes
Eun-Young Lee
Epidemiology Now! is a podcast series created for students in 2021W HLTH323 Introduction to Epidemiology, Queen’s University. In this podcast, Dr. Eun-Young Lee at Queen’s University interviews up-and-coming epidemiologists and health researchers from diverse backgrounds on varying topics from the basics of epidemiology to its applications in public health.
Speakers’ bio:
Olivia Du, BKin 20’
Olivia completed her BSc Honours degree with a specialization in kinesiology at Queen’s University in 2020. Olivia is now a second year MSc student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Rehabilitation Sciences Institute. Her research examines sex and gender differences in exercise participation and depressive symptoms in the stroke population. By taking an integrated knowledge translation approach, she hopes that study results will fill a knowledge gap of sex- and gender-specific indicators of exercise participation and depressive symptoms in this clinical population and inform the remodelling of the stroke continuum of care by removing sex- and gender-specific barriers, improving access to stroke-related health services for men and women, and educating end knowledge users. Olivia’s research is funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award. Olivia aims to defend her thesis next summer and aspires to pursue a career as a clinician-scientist.
Charlotte Lipin BA 22’ (Health Major)
Charlotte is in her fourth year of Health Studies at Queens University. She is currently working under Dr. Lee in the In Situ Lab as a UG Undergraduate Trainee. Her research is focused on the constitutional determinants of climate change mitigation efforts. In specific, looking at how adverse health effects caused by climate change are disproportionately impacting population health while simultaneously threatening human rights and social justice. Charlotte is hoping to pursue a master’s in Public Health after the completion of her undergraduate degree.
In this episode, Dr. Fong explains the processes and expected outcomes of knowledge translation.
In this episode, Dr. Kuzik explains the basic features, advantages and disadvantages of systematic review and meta-analysis.
In this episode, Dr. Kang explains the basic features, advantages and disadvantages of randomized controlled trials.
In this episode, Hunter explains the basic concepts, advantages and disadvantages of the quasi-experimental study design.
In this episode, Dr. Vanderloo explains the basic concepts, advantages and disadvantages of the cohort study design.
In this episode, Dr. Zhang explains the basic concepts, advantages and disadvantages of the cross-sectional study design.
In this episode, Dr. Manyanga (UNBC) explains the basic concepts, advantages and disadvantages of the ecological study design with the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance's Global Matrix initiatives as an example.
In this episode, our special guest, Laura Koch (former HLTH 323 student) discusses three types of selection bias and information bias, respectively, issues of confounding and ways we can deal with them in epidemiological research.
Dr. Negin Riazi is a recent doctoral graduate from the UBC Population Physical Activity Lab and soon-to-be a post-doctoral fellow at Brock University. Dr. Riazi's research on children’s physical activity and population health has two main foci: children’s independent mobility and population-level physical activity initiatives and policy-level interventions.
Silvia Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and a researcher with the Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) research group at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. In this podcast, Silvia Talks about how epidemiological research is used in informing public health policy and practice with the Open Street initiatives as an example.
Dr. Maxine Myre is a post-doctoral associate in the Weklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. In this episode, Dr. Myre discusses her doctoral dissertation that has examined the relationship between weight stigma and physical activity among women living with obesity with the goals of reducing the impact of weight stigma and improving body weight inclusion in physical activity.
Dr. Sophy Chan is a research associate in the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University. In this episode, Dr. Chan discusses the importance of epidemiological data science in better controlling COVID-19 in Favelas, a low-income informal settlement in Brazil that has experienced historical governmental neglect and continue to experience injustice.
Dr. Roman Pabayo is a Canada Research Chair in Social Environment and Health Among Children and a social epidemiologist in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. In this episode, Dr. Pabayo gives us a talk on the basics of social epidemiology and his research projects.