Faculty Member
Hailey Banack
- Email Address(es)
- hailey.banack(at)utoronto.ca
- Website(s)
- www.haileybanack.com,
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Epidemiology Division
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate Member
- Appointment Status
- Contract
- Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
- Yes
Research Interests
- Obesity epidemiology
- Aging research
- Epidemiologic methods
- Bias analysis
- Causal inference
- Women’s health
- Life course epidemiology
Hailey Banack, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She also holds the Novo Nordisk Health Equity and Chronic Illness Prevention Professorship.
Her research focuses on obesity and aging. She is interested in novel measurement approaches for body composition in older adults and understanding age-related change in body composition among women and individuals from racial/ethnic minority groups. She has a particular interest in epidemiologic methods, including quantitative bias analysis and causal inference.
Dr. Banack currently has two large NIH-funded grants (R37CA258761 and R01AG078249) focused on chronic disease outcomes (cancer, diabetes) in postmenopausal women. She is also a co-investigator with the longstanding Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, a prospective cohort of postmenopausal women that has been ongoing for 30 years.
Dr. Banack is actively recruiting doctoral students to work on fully-funded research projects focused on obesity, aging, women’s health, health disparities, and chronic disease. Please email for additional information. She is also seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join her research group.
In addition to her program of research, Dr. Banack is the co-host of a podcast called SERious Epi. The SERious Epi podcast is aimed at trainees and practicing epidemiologists who want to learn more about study design and advanced analytic approaches used in epidemiology.