Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

I.D. Rusen MD, MSc (epidemiology), FRCP(C) (community medicine)

Research Interests

• International Health
• Tuberculosis control
• Epidemiology

Education & Training History

MD – University of Manitoba 1992

MSc – University of Toronto – 1997

FRCPC – Public Health and Preventive Medicine – University of Toronto – 1998

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

• Primary Supervisor – MHSc Practicum
• Teach, set and mark for graduate courses
• Voting member of theses committees, advise graduate students

Honours & Awards

Representative Publications

• CMAJ. 2005 Sep 27;173(7):759-64. Severe maternal morbidity in Canada, 1991-2001. Wen SW, Huang L, Liston R, Heaman M, Baskett T, Rusen ID, Joseph KS, Kramer MS; Maternal Health Study Group, Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.
• Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2005 Apr;9(4):384-91. A method to determine the utility of the third diagnostic and the second follow-up sputum smear examinations to diagnose tuberculosis cases and failures. Rieder HL, Chiang CY, Rusen ID.
• Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2004 Oct;191(4):1263-9. Comparison of maternal mortality and morbidity between trial of labor and elective cesarean section among women with previous cesarean delivery. Wen SW, Rusen ID, Walker M, Liston R, Kramer MS, Baskett T, Heaman M, Liu S; Maternal Health Study Group, Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.
• J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2004 Aug;26(8):735-42. Recent trends in caesarean delivery rates and indications for caesarean delivery in Canada. Liu S, Rusen ID, Joseph KS, Liston R, Kramer MS, Wen SW, Kinch R; Maternal Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.
• Chronic Dis Can. 2004 Winter;25(1):1-6. Sudden infant death syndrome in Canada: trends in rates and risk factors, 1985-1998. Rusen ID, Liu S, Sauve R, Joseph KS, Kramer MS.
• Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2003 Nov;67(11):919-23. Trend in prevalence of neural tube defects in Quebec. De Wals P, Rusen ID, Lee NS, Morin P, Niyonsenga T.
• JAMA. 2002 Mar 27;287(12):1561-7. Relationship of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy termination to overall infant mortality in Canada. Liu S, Joseph KS, Kramer MS, Allen AC, Sauve R, Rusen ID, Wen SW; Fetal and Infant Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.
• CMAJ. 1999 Mar 23;160(6):799-802. Related Articles, Links Comment in: CMAJ. 1999 Mar 23;160(6):821-2. Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among injection drug users in Toronto. Rusen ID, Yuan L, Millson ME.
• Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1997 Jul;16(7):656-62. Nasopharyngeal pneumococcal colonization among Kenyan children: antibiotic resistance, strain types and associations with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Rusen ID, Fraser-Roberts L, Slaney L, Ombette J, Lovgren M, Datta P, Ndinya-Achola J, Talbot JA, Nagelkerke N, Plummer FA, Embree JE.