Research in the Department

Research is pursued by faculty members in a wide variety of areas related to epidemiology, clinical trials, biostatistics, health services research, health policy, and health economics.

Within these broad disciplines, specific content strengths include: cancer epidemiology, injury epidemiology, environmental health, developmental disabilities, psychiatric epidemiology, home care, health reimbursement mechanisms, health care utilization, and community care.

Opportunities in many of these areas are strengthened by formal affiliations with research groups such as: National Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group; Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Cancer Research Institute; Queen's Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, and the Emergency Medicine and Injury Research Group.