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Laura Rosella

Faculty Affiliate

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Laura Rosella, PhD a Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, where she holds Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, the Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, the Education Lead for the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM), and the Associate Director of Education and Training at the University of Toronto’s Data Science Initiative (DSI). Her additional scientific appointments include being a Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute and the Schwartz Reisman Institute and Site Director for ICES University of Toronto. Her research covers population health and health equity, data science, predictive models to support public health planning, knowledge translation and evaluation, and population health management. She has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications in epidemiology, population health and health services research. Notably, Laura was awarded the Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiology Award by the Society for Epidemiologic Research and was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Interpretability
  • Data Science

Highlights

  • Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars
  • Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics
  • Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health
  • Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiology Award by the Society for Epidemiologic Research
  • Canada’s Top 40 Under 40