MCHPStudents
A Student-led Initiative
ADVISORS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS
The data available at MCHP are very diverse and complex.
While you do not need to have a MCHP Scientist on your committee to use the data, understanding the data is much easier if your advisor or committee member has experience working with these data.
Here is a list of the MCHP Research Scientists that are available to advise graduate students and to sit on graduate student committees.
See the MCHP website for a complete list of staff and adjunct scientists associated with the centre.

Marni Brownell
Research Areas: First Nations and Metis child health and development, the health and well-being of children in the child welfare system, developing population-level indicators of child health, and evaluations of programs designed to improve child development and family functioning.
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Mariette Chartier
Research Areas: Prevention and early intervention programs for children and their parents, mental health promotion, child abuse and neglect, perinatal health, health risk behaviours, and health of vulnerable populations. She has published in the area of anxiety disorders, child physical and sexual abuse, as well as prevention and intervention programs for children.
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Dan Chateau
Research Areas: Pharmacoepideiology. In addition to contributing to numerous deliverables at MCHP, at present Dan is the Manitoba site lead (and member of the quantitative methods team) for the Canadian Network of Observational Drugs Effect Studies (CNODES).
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Malcolm Doupe
Research Areas: Health services utilization and the aging population, investigating the determinants of nursing home use and transitions along the continuum of older adult care. Additional research areas include factors affecting emergency department use and patient flow.
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Randy Fransoo
Research Areas: Clinical epidemiology projects with colleagues in Anesthesia, Cardiac Sciences, and Critical Care.
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Alan Katz
Research Areas: Primary care delivery, including quality of care indicators, knowledge translation and disease prevention; using big data analytic techniques with administrative claims data.
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Lisa Lix
Research Areas: Health services research methods, statistical methods for evaluation of the quality of administrative health databases, the analysis of repeated measures and longitudinal data, and robust statistical methods for patient-reported outcomes. She collaborates widely on projects about population health and the association between chronic disease and quality of life.
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Alyson Mahar
Research Areas: Social determinants of health, access to health care, military and veteran health and well-being, military family health and well-being, first-responder mental health, inequalities in the provision of cancer care, cancer outcomes for fatal, under-funded cancers, mental health and cancer.
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Nathan Nickel
Research Areas: (1) healthcare utilization / health outcomes research applying causal inference methodologies, (2) maternal and child health research from a life-course perspective, (3) policy research vis-à-vis socioeconomic inequalities in health, (4) policies and practices to support breastfeeding mother-infant dyads, and (5) organization and costing in the healthcare system.
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Leslie Roos
Research Areas: The diverse uses of information-rich research environments.
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Noralou Roos
Research Areas: Using administrative data for bridging the gap between research and government policy development.
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Chelsea Ruth
Research Areas: Expandimg the use of the administrative data in the area of diabetes and perinatal health, as well as exploring new data to add to the repository. She also brings the experience of a practicing clinician to her work.
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Marcelo Urquia
Research Areas: Immigrant and refugee health, gender and health, social determinants of health, maternal and child health, reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, and international health. He is also interested in applying and developing innovative approaches to the use of large administrative databases for health research, such as family-based designs, intergenerational studies, cross-provincial and cross-country studies.
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