Maria-Beatriz Ospina

Contact

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Obstetrics & Gynaecology Dept
Email
mospina@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

epidemiology cohort study health services utilization Social determinants of health and health inequalities Respiratory health Developmental origins of health and disease Adverse birth outcomes


About

Degrees and Additional Training

  • PhD Public Health Sciences (Clinical Epidemiology). University of Alberta School of Public Health, Edmonton, AB (Canada) (2013)
  • MSc Clinical Epidemiology University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada) (2004).
  • Visiting Fellow in Systematic Reviews. Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona (Spain) (2001).

Awards

  • Instructor of the Year (Large Class), School of Public Health Students’ Association, University of Alberta, 2017
  • Instructor of the Year (Distance Class), School of Public Health Students’ Association, University of Alberta, 2016.

Dr. Ospina is a clinical epidemiologist in the area of maternal and perinatal health, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Medicine and the School of Public Health. 

She has developed an innovative multidisciplinary translational research program to understand how the first 1,000 days of human life influence future health: DMETRE (Developmental Maternal and perinatal Epidemiology and Translational ResearchEvidence: Data, Birth, Babies + Beyond.

DMETRE is based on a knowledge-to-action approach in which epidemiological methods are applied to produce maternal and perinatal epidemiological knowledge in relation to three main themes:

  • Developmental Trajectories of Chronic Diseases
  • Pathways of Inequalities in Maternal and Perinatal Health
  • Synthesis of Maternal and Perinatal Research Evidence




Research

  • Maternal and perinatal health
  • Developmental origins of health and disease
  • Health inequalities and social determinants of health
  • Indigenous health
  • Life-course approaches and other statistical methods for the analysis of large health datasets and cohort studies
  • Clinical epidemiology and health services research
  • Knowledge translation and implementation science
  • Knowledge synthesis and meta-analysis methods


Teaching

SPH 566 - Systematic Review

Featured Publications

DeMarco N., Twynstra J., Ospina M.B., Darrington M., Whippey C., Seabrook J.A.

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. 2021 August; 34 (4):530-537 10.1016/j.jpag.2021.03.003


CJEM. 2021 June; 10.1007/s43678-021-00138-3


The effects of treating underlying paradoxical vocal fold motion disorder on asthma in pediatric patients: A systematic review

Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2021 May;


Amjad S., Chojecki D., Osornio-Vargas A., Ospina M.B.

ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2021 May; 156 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106644


Desai V., Kozyrskyj A.L., Lau S., Sanni O., Dennett L., Walter J., Ospina M.B.

Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021 April; 12 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.622181


Moore L.E., Voaklander B., Savu A., Yeung R.O., Ryan E., Chojecki D., Kaul P., Ospina M.B.

JOURNAL OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS. 2021 April; 35 (4):107804 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2020.107804


Ospina M.B., Serrano-Lomelin J.A., Amjad S., Hicks A., Giesbrecht G.F.

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2021 April; 12 (2):345-346 10.1017/S2040174420000458


Polisena J., Ospina M., Sanni O., Matenchuk B., Livergant R., Amjad S., Zoric I., Haddad N., Morrison A., Wilson K., Bogoch I., Welch V.A.

BMJ Open. 2021 March; 11 (3):e046177 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046177


Chen A., Ospina M., McRae A., McLane P., Hu X.J., Fielding S., Rosychuk R.J.

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021 March; 23 (2):206-213 10.1007/s43678-020-00013-7


Gragasin F, Ospina MB, Serrano-Lomelin J, Kim SH, Kokotilo M, Woodman AG, Renaud SJ, Bourque SL

Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2021 March; 10 (5):995 10.3390/jcm10050997


Sagaidak S., Rowe B.H., Ospina M.B., Rosychuk R.J.

PEDIATRIC RESEARCH. 2021 February; 89 (3):679-685 10.1038/s41390-020-0918-2


Ospina M.B., Serrano-Lomelin J.A., Amjad S., Hicks A., Giesbrecht G.F.

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2021 February; 12 (1):50-57 10.1017/S2040174419000886


Serrano-Lomelin J., Hicks A., Kumar M., Johnson D.W., Chari R., Osornio-Vargas A., Crawford S., Bakal J., Ospina M.B.

PLoS One. 2021 February; 16 (2 February):e0247527 10.1371/journal.pone.0247527


Pihelgas A., Prior A., Ospina M.B., Jain V.

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 2021 January; Jan 5;S1701-2163(20)31037 10.1016/j.jogc.2020.12.015


Serrano-Lomelin J., Nielsen C.C., Hicks A., Crawford S., Bakal J.A., Ospina M.B.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 December; 17 (23):1-17 10.3390/ijerph17238973