This Friday is EBOSS's LAST Career Panel of the semester: Careers in Industry!
Join us Friday, March 25th 3-4pm EST on Zoom to hear from Craig Fairclough, Brianna Cheng, Dr Rosamund Lewis, and Dana Teltsch. We are very excited to welcome our four speakers, hear about their experience and give you a chance to ask them questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
About the panelists:
Dr. Rosamund Lewis heads the WHO Smallpox Secretariat of the Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, leading on emergency preparedness and advising on health security for the agency. In 2020, Dr Lewis joined the WHO COVID-19 response team as the health sciences lead for management of infodemics. A public health physician with an early career in family and emergency medicine, Rosamund has served WHO, the Government of Canada, Ottawa Public Health and other agencies at global, national and municipal levels in emergency preparedness, health security, disease surveillance and response, offering country support for a range of immunization and disease control programmes. Other roles focused on field epidemiology in emergency settings (MSF/Epicentre) and new vaccines and health systems (GAVI / CIDA). Along with a Bachelor of Science and medical degree from McGill University, Rosamund holds a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, a Master of Management in Health Leadership, and fellowships in Family Medicine and Public Health and Preventive Medicine and has published extensively in her areas of work. Rosamund holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa.
Craig Fairclough is a senior Consultant in Occupational Hygiene for the Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS). He obtained his Bachelors of Science from Ryerson University in Environmental Health, majoring in Occupational Health and Safety with a minor in Public Administration, and his master’s degree in occupational health from McGill University. He has over 25 years of combined occupational health, safety and hygiene experience in the private industry, government, and consulting field across many sectors. In his current role, he provides service to customers throughout Ontario and the United States, addressing worker exposure to noise, chemicals, designated substances, IAQ, thermal stress and mold. Craig is also an Adjunct Professor with Ryerson University in the Faculty of Community Services, School of Occupational and Public Health.
Brianna Cheng is a global health epidemiologist. She pursued epidemiology to acquire the fundamental skills to impact health at scale. Her current work at the World Health Organization's Unity Studies focuses on SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance and equitable knowledge-sharing. Recently, she contributed to 2 studies on seroprevalence and has co-developed international guidance on interpreting seroprevalence for public-health decision-making. In her current affiliation with the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, she contributes administrative leadership skills to support the implementation of the new flagship B.A. program in Population and Global Health. Brianna also currently facilitates a graduate course on global primary healthcare. Her interest in strengthening local health systems has further led her to strategically lead the Community Health and Social Medicine Incubator since 2018, where she led key initiatives to improve its community responsiveness. Finally, as a writer and self-taught visual artist, Brianna is interested in leveraging the medical humanities to advocate for social issues, as she has previously done to direct a participatory film on domestic violence.
Past Career Panels
Careers inGovernment: Friday, February 25th 3-4 PM EST Speakers Lamiah Adamjee is a recent MS Public Health graduate from McGill University. She also has a Bachelor in Kinesiology from University of British Columbia. After graduating from the MScPH program she worked as a research assistant at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. More recently, she has been working as an epidemiology analyst with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health COVID-19 Correctional Facilities Team to track and respond to cases in all the prisons, jails, and juvenile halls within the county of Los Angeles. She is inspired by the interdisciplinary and fast paced nature of epidemiology and data work at the governmental level.
Dr. Zhouyu Wang is a biostatistician currently working as a senior data analyst at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, an independent federal government agency that regulates and supervises federally regulated financial institutions and pension plans. Zhouyu obtained his first master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Southern Medical University (China), and a second masters in Biostatistics and a PhD also in Biostatistics at McGill University. He went on to complete his post-doc at the Centre de recherche du CHUM. Since then, Zhouyu has worked as a statistician for Statistics Canada, Business strategies consultant for Service Canada, and Data analysts for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, before taking his current position as senior data analyst.
Julia Paul is a Senior Epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada Outbreak Management Division, within the Centre for Food-borne, Environmental & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. She completed her undergraduate training in Psychology at the University in Manitoba, and an MSc in Epidemiology from McGill University in 2009. Julia has been with the Public Health Agency of Canada since 2013 and has extensive experience working in several program areas, including COVID-19, enteric and zoonotic diseases, sexually transmitted and blood borne infections, and influenza. As a graduate of the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program, Julia acquired experience in applied public health during her placement at the local level with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. She also worked for multiple years as a Public Health Epidemiologist with the Manitoba provincial government.
Careers in academia: February 4th 3-4pm EST. We welcome alumni from our department to come speak with us about their career paths: Drs. Sophie Huddart, Nichole Austin, Chun-Yip Hon, and Laura Drudi. We are very excited to welcome our four speakers, hear about their experience and give you a chance to ask them questions.
About the panelists:
Sophie Huddart is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California in San Francisco. She completed her masters in biostatistics at the University of Glasgow and her PhD in epidemiology at McGill University. Her research interests are in TB quality of care, especially how it influences the long-term outcomes post-treatment, and in advanced analytic and simulation techniques to address data scarcity in global health. She is currently funded by a CIHR postdoctoral award and a NIH T32 award.
Dr. Nichole Austin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Administration at Dalhousie University. She completed her MSc, PhD, and post-doctoral degree in Epidemiology at McGill University. Dr. Austin's research interests are in policy evaluation and reproductive health. The majority of her work uses quasi-experimental designs to assess the impact of policy shifts in the US, Canada, and beyond.
Dr. Chun-Yip Hon has been an associate professor with the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University since 2012. Dr. Hon also has a decade’s worth of experience working in industry as an occupational health professional. He obtained his bachelor of science from McMaster University, a bachelor of applied science from Ryerson University, a masters in Occupation Health from McGill University and a doctorate in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene from the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Laura Drudi is an Assistant Professor in Vascular Surgery at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and Surgeon-Scientist at the Centre de Recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM). She completed her MSc in Epidemiology and her residency training in Vascular Surgery at McGill University. She went on to pursue fellowship training in complex peripheral endovascular interventions for limb salvage in Belgium. Her research interests are centered around frailty and vulnerability in patients with peripheral arterial disease. She holds several grants and over 30 peer-reviewed publications and is directing research efforts for the Division of Vascular Surgery at the CHUM.