Potential EPID 499 Supervisors and Topic Areas

The Department of Community Health and Epidemiology currently has the following topic areas available for EPID 499 students.  Please contact supervisors at their email addresses.

Beatriz Alvarado(alvaradb@queensu.ca)

Topics related to social determinants of physical functioning in the elderly.

Ugis Bickis(bickisu@queensu.ca)

Potential health impacts of a changing climate on seasonal allergies in Canada: a literature review and synthesis

Patti Groome(patti.groome@krcc.on.ca)

Topic in health services research in cancer to be determined

Ana Johnson(ana.johnson@queensu.ca)

Topics related to health economic analyses

• Economics and policy issues related to improving cancer outcomes by optimizing the accessibility and quality of radiotherapy in Canada
• Projects assoaciated with health economics and health policy with the new Pharmacoepidemiology and Economics Research Unit (ICES-Queen's)
• Developing database infrastructure for examining the transferability of clinical trials from the clinical setting to usual care
• Bayesian cost-effectiveness analysis of HIV prevention: developing a Bayesian method for computing credible intervals for economic evaluations

Will Pickett(will.pickett@queensu.ca)

Topic to be determined.

Harriet Richardson(hrichardson@ctg.queensu.ca)

Topics related to secondary data analyses from breast cancer prevention trials

• Vitamin D supplementation in postmenopausal women
• Changes in Quality of Life (QOL) after stopping therapy with an aromatase inhibitor