Day: 4 August 2023

In this week’s episode, Tiffany and Payton are joined by Heather Candon, Director of Infection Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an adjunct lecturer at Queen’s University, spearheading the new MPH IPAC specialization. Heather tells us her story of what brought her into IPAC, including how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped the influence of […]

In this week’s episode, Tiffany and Payton are joined by Dr. Sam Buttemer, Director of the Master of Public Health program at Queen’s University and Acting Program Director for the Public Health and Preventive Medicine program at the Queen’s School of Medicine. Dr. Buttemer explains what it means to be a public health physician, discusses […]

With technology and the media landscape advancing at ever-increasing rates, there are tantalizing—and overwhelming—opportunities to elevate public health data collection. In this week’s episode Tiffany and Payton are joined by Dr. Wei Tu, a Senior Biostatistician and Data Scientist in the Canadian Cancer Trials Group as well as Assistant Professor in the Queen’s Department of […]

For today’s episode we ask, “what inspires someone to pursue a career in public health”. In answering this weighty question, Tiffany and Payton are joined by Dr. Duncan Hunter of Queen’s University. Tune in for an inspiring discussion of self-motivation, globetrotting academia, and innumerable contributions to public health. Like all of our episodes, this is […]

When populations are diverse and health needs are complex, how do public health leaders know what decisions to make? Queen’s University’s own Dr. Maria Ospina joins Tiffany and Payton to address that very question, and describes her career journey in the field of epidemiology. Listeners will also be treated to engaging discussions of work-life balance, […]