/cand3/taxonomy/term/4/all en /cand3/channels/event/lunchlearn-data-focus-navigating-challenges-visualization-360125 <h2><a href="/cand3/event-registration-data-focus-navigating-challenges-visualization">Register Here</a></h2> Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:19:28 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 846 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/event/lunch-learn-rapid-changes-family-structure-have-profound-implications-provision-informal-support-359017 <h2><a href="/cand3/event-registration-rapid-changes-family-structure-have-profound-implications-provision-informal">Register Here</a></h2> Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:30:47 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 839 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/event/training-data-driven-decision-making-cand3-alumni-showcase-2024-358137 <h2><a href="/cand3/event-registration-training-data-driven-decision-making-cand3-alumni-showcase-2024">Register Here</a></h2> Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:38:11 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 833 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/research-highlight-public-sector-health-analytics-capacity-and-after-covid-19-case-study-manager-358183 <p>We are thrilled to announce that Maria Lima, a fellow from our 2022-2023 cohort, has published a new research article under the supervision of Professor Neeru Gupta from the University of New Brunswick and James Ayles from the Government of New Brunswick, both valued partners of CAnD3. This exemplary partnership stemmed from a CAnD3 internship. CAnD3 takes pride in providing fellows with valuable internship opportunities, and we are pleased to witness the application of the skills acquired during our training program.  </p> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:50:03 +0000 katarina.bunakova@mail.mcgill.ca 835 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/research-highlight-visualizing-daily-time-use-housework-canada-persistence-and-patterns-357699 <p>CAnD3 is pleased to share the latest visualization publication “Time Use on Housework in Canada: Persistence and Patterns” published by Kamila Kolpashnikova, Zilin Li, and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, that presents daily time use on housework in Canada. The study enhances understanding of housework participation from a daily time-use perspective. </p> Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:14:05 +0000 yutang.song@mcgill.ca 828 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/event/training-data-driven-decision-making-cand3-alumni-showcase-349428 <h2><a href="/cand3/event-registration-training-data-driven-decision-making-cand3-alumni-showcase">Register Here</a></h2> Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:17:26 +0000 enkhuun.byambadorj@mail.mcgill.ca 783 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/fellows-feature-aida-parnia-regan-johnston-357221 <p>The fourth cohort fellows of the CAnD3 program contains a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Through our Fellows Features, we aim to showcase these interests and offer insight into their passion through creating inclusive spaces and capturing their unique experiences within the CAnD3 program.</p> <p>We caught up with two of our Fellows, Aida and Regan, to ask about their experiences with the CAnD3 program thus far. Read on to learn about their research and what they hope to achieve during the remainder of the program and beyond.</p> Mon, 06 May 2024 03:04:20 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 824 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/fellows-feature-carlos-ramirez-hernandez-bertram-melix-357220 <p>There is much to look forward to heading into the second half of the 2023-24 CAnD3 training year. Our Fellows will start 2024 with a discussion of <a href="/cand3/channels/event/lunch-learn-recent-advances-digital-demography-353563">recent advances in digital demography</a> and explore topics like adaptive policymaking, loneliness trajectories of older adults, and social media analysis in the next six months. They will also be producing their portfolios, Dragons' Den data visualizations, and policy briefs. </p> Mon, 06 May 2024 03:01:46 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 823 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/fellows-feature-megan-skowronski-bavisha-thurairajah-357219 <p>The first half of the 2023-24 training year has officially wrapped up. Over the past four months, our 22 CAnD3 Fellows have completed a total of 15 training sessions on topics ranging from research replicability and data ethics to discussions about the latest population analytics research and time management. We caught up with two of our Fellows, Megan and Bavisha, to ask about their experiences with the CAnD3 program thus far. Read on to learn about their research and what they hope to achieve during the remainder of the program and beyond.</p> Mon, 06 May 2024 02:53:29 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 822 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/fellows-feature-stephen-ogbodo-tara-henry-357218 <p>The 2023-24 CAnD3 Fellow cohort is composed of 22 accomplished individuals competitively selected from our <a href="/cand3/about/partners">partner higher education institutions</a>. The new cohort comes from diverse backgrounds, with eight in master’s programs, 13 in PhD programs, and one completing postdoctoral training. They bring a range of disciplinary training from political science and geography to gerontology and medicine.</p> Mon, 06 May 2024 02:50:46 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 821 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/fellows-feature-maria-ahmed-chris-borst-357217 <p>The fourth year of the <a href="/cand3/training-program/experiential-learning">Population Analytics in an Aging Society Training Program</a> held its kick-off on September 6<sup>th</sup>. The 22 accomplished Fellows who compose the 2023-24 cohort were competitively selected from CAnD3’s (Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making) <a href="/cand3/about/partners">partner higher education institutions</a>.</p> Mon, 06 May 2024 02:39:49 +0000 phuong.dong@mail.mcgill.ca 820 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/event/start-generating-harnessing-generative-artificial-intelligence-sociological-research-355790 <h2><a href="/cand3/event-registration-may-lunch-learn-session-thomas-davidson">Register Here</a></h2> <p>Join our May Lunch & Learn session with Thomas Davidson, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University.  Professor Davidson will speak on the development of Generative Artificial Intelligence(GAI), for example how ChatGPT has raised significant public debate. He will particularly focus on the applications of the technologies as methods for sociological inquiry and examine potential applications in three different areas including computational, experimental and qualitative research. Our event will delve into the implications of GAL for bias and bias mitigation efforts, shedding light on the potential risks and opportunities that arise in the pursuit of fair and equitable AI systems. Some of Professor Davidson’s current research examines how digital trace data from social media and other websites combined with statistical analysis and computational methods, including natural language processing and machine learning.</p> <hr /> <h2>Itinerary </h2> <p>12:00 - 12:05 | Welcome and introductions</p> <p>12:05 - 12:45 | Lunch&Learn presentation</p> <p>12:45 - 12:55 | Moderated Q&A session</p> <p>12:55 - 13:00 | Closing and upcoming sessions</p> <h2>Location</h2> <p>This is an online webinar hosted on Zoom. To receive details to enter the event, <a href="/cand3/event-registration-may-lunch-learn-session-thomas-davidson">please register</a>.  </p> <hr /> <h2>Featured Speaker</h2> <h3><img alt="" data-fid="1258" src="/cand3/files/cand3/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/thomas_davidson.png?itok=MLdxyh83" style="height:160px; width:160px; float:left; margin:15px 8px" />Thomas Davidson</h3> <p><strong>Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, </strong>Rutgers University</p> <p>Thomas Davidson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. His research interests include political sociology, social movements, and the sociology of culture. His research uses digital trace data from social media and other websites combined with statistical analysis and computational methods, including natural language processing and machine learning. He is currently working on several projects on populism, far-right politics, and hate speech on social media, as well as methodological work on the uses of generative AI for sociological research.</p> <p> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:51:20 +0000 yutang.song@mcgill.ca 808 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/postdoctoral-positions-understanding-and-supporting-quality-work-life-long-term-care-ltc-357168 <p>The purpose of the <i>An Underrepresented, Undervalued Workforce: Understanding and Supporting Quality of Work Life in Long-term Care </i>research project is to build evidence for the Atlantic Canadian long-term care sector to better understand, support and manage the Atlantic LTC workforce. The investigators want to understand how staff work changes their health and wellbeing and how they give residents the best quality of care.</p> Wed, 01 May 2024 18:31:52 +0000 yutang.song@mcgill.ca 819 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/event/2024-cand3-keynote-address-structural-inequities-health-looking-back-and-future-356531 <h2><a href="/cand3/event-registration-2024-cand3-keynote-address-dr-arjumand-siddiqi-and-dr-mabel-carabali">Register Here</a></h2> <p>We are excited to welcome you to the 2024 CAnD3 Keynote Address! This hybrid event is the culmination of the 2023-2024 <a href="/cand3/training-program">Training Program</a>. CAnD3 is thrilled to have two amazing speakers, Dr. Siddiqi and Dr. Carabali, joining us for what will be a great Keynote Address. We are also excited to host for the first time the Dragon's Den finals in person where the finalists from the 2023/2024 cohort will compete for the grand prize! The Fellows will also give us a glimpse on their work done in data-driven decision making alongside our incredible partners. This will be a moment to celebrate the past four cohorts of CAnD3 Fellows from 2020 to 2024 and welcome the incoming cohort for 2024/2025.</p> <p>We hope that you will join us, whether in-person or virtually, for this exciting celebration of our program's successful delivery. To learn more about the CAnD3 program and our impact, read our recently released <a href="/cand3/about/annual-reports">annual report</a>.</p> <hr /> <h2>Itinerary </h2> <h3>10:30 - 11:00 | Registration with coffee</h3> <h3>11:00 - 12:15 | Keynote Lecture by Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi and Dr. Mabel Carabali</h3> <p><a href="http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/siddiqi-arjumand/">Dr. Siddiqi</a> will delve into the evolution of investigating structural determinants of health, exploring how data availability, analytic strategies, and causal inference approaches have shaped this trajectory. Her presentation will offer an overview of these influential factors and raise critical questions for the future of this research domain. Following that, <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/mabel-carabali">Dr. Carabali</a> will focus on contemporary challenges in assessing inequalities, with a special emphasis on methods for evaluating racial disparities, highlighting both the hurdles and opportunities that lie ahead in this important field.</p> <div class="accordion"> <h3><a href="#">More about Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi and Dr. Mabel Carabali</a></h3> <div> <h4><img alt="Circular image of featured speaker Arjumand Siddiqi" data-fid="699" src="/cand3/files/cand3/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/siddiqi_unc-modified.png?itok=llSPKPyy" style="margin-left:15px; margin-right:15px; float:left; height:200px; width:200px" /><a href="https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/siddiqi-arjumand/">Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi</a></h4> <p><strong>Professor</strong>, Population Health Equity, University of Toronto</p> <p><strong>Senior Scientist and Edwin S.H. Leong Chair of Child Policy Research</strong>, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.</p> <p><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arjumand-siddiqi-87332467" target="_blank"><img alt="LinkedIn icon hyperlinked to Anne Martin-Matthews' profile" data-fid="50" src="/cand3/files/cand3/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/linkedin_icon.png?itok=CfyazsgC" style="height:22px; width:22px" /></a><a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=SbSDYbUAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank"><img alt="Website icon hyperlinked to Anne Martin-Matthews' ResearchGate account" data-fid="51" src="/cand3/files/cand3/website_icon.png" style="height:22px; width:22px" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/siddiqi-arjumand/">Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi</a> is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist and Edwin S.H. Leong Chair of Child Policy Research at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. At University of Toronto, she is also appointed in Sociology, Public Policy, and Women and Gender Studies, and is a Senior Fellow of Massey College. She holds Adjunct Professorships at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Siddiqi’s research focuses on understanding the nature and causes of health inequities, with particular emphasis on how they are influenced by social policies and other societal conditions. Dr. Siddiqi frequently works with organizations, including governments and international agencies, on issues of social determinants of health, health inequalities, and related matters. She was a member of the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. She is the recipient of the 2022 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Population and Public Health Mid-Career Trailblazer Award.  She received her doctorate in Social Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.</p> <h3><img alt="" data-fid="1304" src="/cand3/files/cand3/mabel_carabali-modified.png" style="height:195px; width:200px; border-width:0px; border-style:solid; margin-left:15px; margin-right:15px; float:left" /><a href="/epi-biostat-occh/mabel-carabali">Dr. Mabel Carabali</a></h3> <div> <p><strong>Professor</strong>, Department of <a href="/epi-biostat-occh/">Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health</a>, ����SM����</p> <p><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mabel-carabali-0678b227" target="_blank"><img alt="LinkedIn icon hyperlinked to Mabel Carabali' profile" data-fid="50" src="/cand3/files/cand3/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/linkedin_icon.png?itok=CfyazsgC" style="height:22px; width:22px" /></a><a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=es&hl=es&user=FE__l9YAAAAJ" target="_blank"><img alt="Website icon hyperlinked to Mabel Carabali' ResearchGate account" data-fid="51" src="/cand3/files/cand3/website_icon.png" style="height:22px; width:22px" /></a></p> <p><a href="/epi-biostat-occh/mabel-carabali">Dr. Mabel Carabali</a> obtained her medical degree from the Universidad Libre in Colombia, a PhD in epidemiology from ����SM���� and did her postdoctoral training at the Social Epidemiology Lab at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Carabali held a position as Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal and has more than 14 years of experience in international epidemiological and biomedical research of infectious diseases and social epidemiology. Dr. Carabali is a social and infectious diseases epidemiologist and her current research focuses on assessing the effect of underreporting and misclassification of the outcome and socioeconomic exposures in infectious diseases; and the expansion of statistical methods for the study and understanding of intersectionality. Other projects include fever surveillance studies for emergent pathogens in Latin America, the analysis of social determinants and socioeconomic disparities for different outcomes in urban settings of the Pan-American region, and racial inequalities and spatiotemporal distribution of police fatal encounters in the US. Dr. Carabali is also an Associate Editor at PLosNeglected Tropical Diseases (PLos NTD).</p> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <h3> Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:57:41 +0000 yutang.song@mcgill.ca 813 at /cand3 /cand3/channels/news/fellows-feature-shannon-mok-khandideh-williams-357058 <p>As we enter March, recruitment is now in full swing at CAnD3. We invite interested students to join <a href="/cand3/registration-202425-cand3-fellows-mcgill-recruitment-session">our recruitment informational session</a> to hear directly about the program from Fellows and staff! You can also get to know more about the Fellows' experience by reading through their features!  </p> Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:28:11 +0000 yutang.song@mcgill.ca 817 at /cand3