Contact
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
- pabayo@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-8608
- Address
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3-269 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 - 87 Ave NWEdmonton ABT6G 1C9
Overview
About
I am a social epidemiologist focused on the social determinants of health, particularly among adolescents, youth, and infants. More specifically, I am interested in studying the relationship between social and economic contextual factors within counties, neighborhoods, and schools, such as income inequality and social fragmentation and behavioral outcomes including physical activity and dietary intake, and other health outcomes such as, cardiovascular disease, depression, and mortality.
Degrees
PhD, Université de Montréal, 2010
MSc, McGill University, 2003
BSc, McMaster University, 1997
Keywords
social epidemiology
social determinants of health
social and health inequalities
social-economic contextual factors
neighborhoods
Research
Current Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded projects include:
- Understanding the Role of Social-Economic Inequality on Deaths Due to Drug Overdose, Suicide, and Alcoholic Liver Disease among adolescents in Canada
- Public Health in a time of Austerity: measuring the divestments in Ontario's public health system and evaluating their impacts on population health and health inequities
- Investigating the potential mitigating role of public health on adolescent health in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Inequities in COVID-19 Outcomes: The Mitigating Role of Public Health
- Investigating the mitigating role of Public Health on suicide, drug poisoning, and alcohol-related harm in Ontario, Canada
More information can be found at: www.https://www.emergeresearchlab.com/
Teaching
- SPH-696 Epidemiology Methods II
- SPH-561 Topics in Public Health (Social Epidemiology)
Announcements
Supervision
Currently accepting students for supervision.
Courses
SPH 561 - Topics in Public Health
SPH 609 - Individual Directed Reading and Research in Public Health
SPH 696 - Epidemiology Methods II
Epidemiologic methods related to specific study designs and general issues relating to the conduct of epidemiologic studies at an advanced level. Topics covered include confounding, interaction, misclassification, matching, ecologic studies, justification of the odds ratio in case-control studies, and age-period-cohort analysis. Prerequisite: SPH 519 and 596 or consent of Instructor. Note: Credit may not be obtained for both PHS 696 and SPH 696.