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Laura Rosella

Professor

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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    Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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BIO

Laura Rosella, PhD, MHSc, is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Population Health Analytics Lab. She is an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, the Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, the Education Lead for the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM), and the Associate Director of Education and Training at the University of Toronto’s Data Science Initiative (DSI). Her additional scientific appointments include Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute and the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and Site Director for ICES UofT. Her research interests include population health and health equity, data science, predictive models to support public health planning, knowledge translation and evaluation, and population health management. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of epidemiology, population health and health services research. She has been awarded several national grants, including a CIHR Foundation grant to support her population health analytics research program. Notably, Dr. Rosella was awarded the Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiology Award by the Society for Epidemiologic Research and was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. Her research has been featured by several media outlets, including Forbes, Newsweek, Reuters, CBC, CTV, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2014 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health
    Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga, Canada2020 - present
  • Site Director
    Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada2016 - present
  • Adjunct Scientist
    Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada2012 - present
  • Scientist
    Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada2011 - 2020

DEGREES

  • PhD, Epidemiology
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1999 - 2009
  • MHSc, Community Health and Epidemiology
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • HBSc, Life Sciences and Statistics
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Canada2009 - 2011
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • School of Cities
  • Institute for Pandemics (IfP)
  • MITO2i (Mitochondrial Innovation Initiative)
  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)
  • Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)
  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)
  • EPIC (Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium)
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs@UofT)