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Congrats Carmela on CIHR CGS M Award!
More exciting news for the EPIX Lab 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations Carmela Rapino (MSc Epidemiology Student 2024-2026 and inaugural CanMASLD...
Sahar Saeed
Apr 111 min read
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Congrats Lucy, Sina, and Duy on CIHR Travel Awards 🎉
Congratulations Lucy, Sina, and Duy for being awarded 2025 CIHR Travel Awards! 🎉 In January, EPIX Lab members spent weeks crafting...
Sahar Saeed
Apr 71 min read
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2025 Undergraduate Research Poster Day!
Congratulations Duy, Karina, Sina, and Zoya on completing their HSCI 59X poster presentations 🎉 Last Thursday (April 3rd, 2025), the...
Sahar Saeed
Apr 71 min read
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SPRITE Protocol Published in BMJ Open 🎉
We are pleased to announce that the protocol for the Syphilis Point of Care Rapid Test and Immediate Treatment Evaluation (SPRITE) study ...
Sahar Saeed
Dec 21, 20241 min read
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New Publication in Annals of Hepatology
A huge congratulations to Jacob Romano (BSc Life Sciences, 2024, Queen’s University) and Jessica Burnside (MSc Epidemiology, 2024,...
Sahar Saeed
Dec 5, 20241 min read
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Lucy is a 2024 Health System Impact Fellow 🎉
We are excited to share that Lucy Mackrell, MSW ( PhD Student, Department of Public Health Sciences) has been announced as one of the...
Sahar Saeed
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Jacob on Accepted Annals of Hepatology Article 🎉
We are pleased to announce that Jacob's paper " Examining the prevalence of hepatic steatosis and advanced fibrosis using non-invasive...
Sahar Saeed
Oct 25, 20241 min read
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Grad Chat with Jess 🎙️
Check out Jessica Burnside's podcast interview on her thesis, titled " The Burden of Steatotic Liver Disease in Canada: Sex Differences...
Sahar Saeed
Oct 18, 20241 min read
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Paper Published in Canadian Journal of Public Health 🏠
Excited to share our latest 🎉 Paper Published! 🏠 Isolation to stabilization: A Housing First approach to address homelessness in...
Sahar Saeed
Oct 18, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Yvonne on Accepted Canadian Journal of Public Health Article
We are pleased to announce that Yvonne's paper "Isolation to Stabilization: A Housing First Approach to Address Chronic Homelessness in...
Sahar Saeed
Aug 13, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Jess on a Successful Thesis Defence and a New Role 🎉
Congratulations, Jessica Burnside, who has successfully defended her Master's thesis, "Significant sex disparities in the prevalence,...
Sahar Saeed
Jul 31, 20241 min read
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Accepted AIDS and Behavior Article!
It's official! Our latest article, "Disengagement from Care Among People Co-Infected with HIV and HCV: A Scoping Review" has been...
Sahar Saeed
Jun 29, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Muna, Jacob, and Ethan!
Congratulations to our wonderful 2023-2024 undergraduate thesis students—Muna Chira, Ethan Odlozinski, and Jacob Romano—on graduating!...
Sahar Saeed
May 28, 20241 min read
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Lucy at CAHR 2024!
Congratulations, Lucy, on presenting two spectacular posters at the 33rd Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR 2024) in London,...
Sahar Saeed
May 1, 20241 min read
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2024 Undergraduate Research Poster Day
Congratulations Muna (BHSc '24), Jacob (BSc '24), and Ethan (BSc '24)! On April 2nd, our wonderful 4th year undergraduate thesis students...
Sahar Saeed
Apr 9, 20241 min read
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Congratulations, Amanda!
We have more exciting news from the EpiX Lab team! Congratulations to Amanda Featherstone (MSc Epidemiology Student 2023-2025) for...
Sahar Saeed
Apr 1, 20241 min read
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Congratulations, Jess!
Congratulations to EpiX Lab member, Jessica Burnside (MSc Epidemiology Student '22-'24), for receiving an Ontario Graduate Scholarship!...
Sahar Saeed
Mar 25, 20241 min read
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CIHR Operating Grant for Syphilis Point-of-care testing
Thrilled to share that our latest syphilis point-of-care testing project, entitled “Breaking Barriers: Expanding Syphilis Point-of-care...
Sahar Saeed
Feb 25, 20241 min read
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5-Year CIHR Project Grant for Liver Fibrosis Research
🎉 Beyond excited and extremely grateful to receive my first 5-year CIHR/IRSC Project Grant! Ranked 2nd in the September 2023 Population...
Sahar Saeed
Feb 25, 20241 min read
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Building Capacity in Research Methods in Rwanda
Six month ago CIHR awarded Fidel Rubagumya, M.D, MMed, MPH, and I a grant entitled “🌍 Bridging a Gap in Global Oncology Research:...
Sahar Saeed
Feb 25, 20241 min read
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