Dalla Lana School of Public Health

RSVP: epi.dlsph@utoronto.ca

Speakers:

1) Dr. Sonia Grandi – “The Use of Observational Data to Emulate Target Trials Among Pregnant Women”

Sonia Grandi, PhD is a Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Division of Epidemiology in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She completed her PhD in epidemiology at McGill University and her postdoctoral fellowship in reproductive epidemiology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development.

Dr. Grandi’s research is focused on the short- and long-term influence of preconception and perinatal exposures on the health of mothers and children, with a focus on cardiometabolic health. She is also interested in the application of novel methods in perinatal and pediatric epidemiology and leveraging administrative health data to help inform clinical practice. She has expertise in longitudinal and survival analyses, prognostic modeling, and perinatal pharmacoepidemiology.

She has received personal and project funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé to examine the safety of levothyroxine in women with subclinical hypothyroidism and the contribution of pregnancy complications to the prediction of cardiovascular disease in women.

2) Dr. Prabhat Jha – “Death and taxes: global effects of smoking, of quitting and of taxing tobacco”

Professor Prabhat Jha is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, Endowed Professor in Global Health and Epidemiology and Canada Research Chair at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Professor Jha is the lead investigator of the Million Death Study in India, which quantifies the causes of premature mortality in over 3 million homes from 1998 to current. His publications on tobacco control have enabled a global treaty now signed by over 180 countries. He founded the Statistical Alliance for Vital Events, which focuses on reliable measurement of premature mortality worldwide.

Earlier, Professor Jha served in senior roles at the World Health Organization and the World Bank. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. Professor Jha holds an M.D. from the University of Manitoba and a D.Phil. from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.