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Ernest Lo

Ernest Lo
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Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Bureau d鈥檌nformation et d鈥櫭﹖udes en sant茅 des populations
Institut national de sant茅 publique du Qu茅bec (INSPQ)
190聽Cr茅mazie Blvd. East
Montreal, QC, Canada H2P 1E2

Phone: 
Tel.: 514-864-1600 ext. 3735
Fax: 514-864-1616
Email address: 
ernest.lo [at] mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Ernest聽Lo holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University and a Masters in biostatistics from 91社区. He has worked in diverse fields including theoretical ecology, neuroimaging and bioinformatics. He is currently a biostatistician and research scientist at the Quebec Public Health Institute (INSPQ), as well as Adjunct Professor in the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at 91社区. His mandates include health forecasting, the measurement of social inequalities in health and the development and refinement of statistical methods used in public health.

Areas of expertise: 

Statistical methodologies for public health surveillance聽and application to public health policy-making. Measures of population health, health forecasting analyses and methodology. Current projects: improving the bias and efficiency properties of the life expectancy estimator for small populations, projection analyses of obesity prevalence, projection analyses of cancer mortality and incidence.

Group: 
Adjunct Professors
Research areas: 
Biostatistics
Public Health
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