Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Connect to Research Expertise
These clusters of intersecting academic disciplines and research areas capture our faculty members' research interests, passions and expertise. Scroll over the coloured icons to reveal the Full-Time, Joint, Associate and Part-Time faculty members in each cluster; each name is linked to their individual profile.
Graduate students: the headings for Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Technology Assessment, Health Services Research, and Public & Population Health parallel the Health Research Methodology Program's fields of specialization. Another heading, Health Policy Analysis, mirrors the Health Policy PhD Program, and the eHealth MSc Program is embedded in the Health Knowledge Translation heading.
1: Primary research area.
2: Secondary research area.
3: Tertiary research area.
Definitions
Behavioural and cognitive sciences: dedicated to understanding
the mental processes underlying the actions/decisions of individuals
and groups; the role of environmental factors in eliciting behaviours;
and the mental representations underlying knowledge and skills
Biostatistics: the development and application of
statistical methods to studies in the life and health sciences
Clinical epidemiology: the application of epidemiologic
and biometric methods to the study of problems of patient management
(including diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy) encountered in the clinical
delivery of care to patients
Epidemiology: the study of the distribution and determinants
of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the
application of this study to promote, protect, and restore health
Health-care ethics / health-care research ethics:
addresses the ethical dimensions of interactions in health-care delivery,
policy making and research with the aim of enhancing the quality of
people’s experience of care, and informing policy through interdisciplinary
research and education.
Health economics: the study of the production and
allocation of health in populations within the context of scarce resources.
Health informatics: studying the problems of organization,
appraisal, retrieval, and transfer of health information into policy
and practice, and developing and testing innovations to improve the
translation of evidence into policy and practice
Health policy analysis: interdisciplinary investigation
of how health policy is made, what it is, what it might become, and
what its effects are.
Health services research: research intended to inform
policy development and decision making regarding the organization, funding,
and delivery of health services, or the allocation of resources dedicated
to improving health
Health technology assessment: interdisciplinary process
of systematically reviewing evidence and evaluating efficacy, effectiveness,
cost, cost effectiveness and impact on patient health and health-care
systems of adopting new health-care technologies
Knowledge translation research: research on the synthesis,
exchange, and ethically sound application of knowledge.
Population genomics: genome-wide genetic variations and their expression of complex diseases in populations
Population/public health: focused on understanding.
the complex and interrelated determinants of health in individuals,
communities and populations.
Social sciences (excluding economics) and humanities:
in CE&B, these include gerontology, history, medical anthropology,
philosophy, political science, program evaluation, and sociology.
