Seminar Series

Jennifer has spent the last 20 years working in surveillance in various disease areas and she will share several lessons regarding ‘indicators.’ She will touch on aspects of measurement, language, frameworks and SMART criteria, sharing examples from various content areas. The talk will highlight considerations regarding how epidemiologists and contributors to information production communicate and collaborate with others to produce truly meaningful/actionable information. She hopes the talk will inspire students to consider the rewards of a career in (indicators) surveillance.

Since coming to Halifax in 2005, Jennifer has worked with the NS Breast Screening Program, Diabetes Care Program of Nova Scotia, Cancer Care Program (Atlantic PATH), Cardiovascular Health Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia Renal Program, all while retaining an academic appointment in the Dalhousie Department of Diagnostic Radiology where she works on projects related to breast imaging, and as current Associate-Head Research, is responsible for resident research education.   Through her program work, she became involved several years ago with the DHW-IWK-NSH surveillance collaboration with all Nova Scotia First Nations.  Prior to coming to Halifax, she was a Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health (labour force determinants of health) and later Cancer Care Ontario (occupational cancer), while holding a faculty appointment at the University of Toronto.  She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and a Master’s in Community Health & Epidemiology, both from Queen’s University, a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, and completed a General Motors Post-Doctoral Fellowship (administered through CIAR) at the Institute for Work & Health (Toronto).