The 2025 Nominations are Now Closed

Every two years CSEB seeks to recognize and celebrate the contributions and achievements of individuals who have contributed to the fields of epidemiology and biostatistics and to the Society.

Thank you for taking the time to nominate a friend, colleague, mentor, professor, employee, or employer who deserves to be celebrated!

CSEB was accepting nominations for the following awards:

  • The Geoffrey R. Howe Outstanding Contribution Award
  • CSEB Lifetime Achievement Award
  • CSEB Early Career Award
  • CSEB Distinguished Service Award

Nominations closed Monday, May 5th, at 11:30pm ET

Nominations are Closed
The Geoffrey R. Howe Outstanding Contribution Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize an outstanding contribution to epidemiological and/or biostatistical research and/or practice.

CSEB Lifetime Achievement Award

The purpose of this award is to honour an individual who has dedicated their career, and has made extraordinary contributions over their lifetime, to the field of epidemiology or biostatistics in Canada.

CSEB Early Career Award

This award is given to recognize a rising star in the field of epidemiology or biostatistics in Canada who is within 5 years of their terminal degree (e.g. PhD).

CSEB Distinguished Service Award

This award is established to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the Society.

CSEB Student Presentation Award

Awarded for the top presentations (poster and oral) at the CSEB conference. These awards are based on grading of the students’ submitted conference abstract and presentation.

CURRENT AWARDS

2025 Early Career Award - Brice Kuimi

Brice Batomen is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. His work focuses on access to trauma care and injury prevention in Canada. His current research goals aim to identify the characteristics of the road network that promote active transportation and safety using innovative data collection and analytic methods. He earned his PhD in epidemiology at McGill University, after completing his Master of Science in Epidemiology at Laval University, and his undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Dschang, Cameroon.

2025 Lifetime Achievement Award - Kristan Aronson

Kristan J Aronson, PhD. After degrees in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University and the University of Toronto, Dr Aronson was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. For over three decades, Dr Aronson taught epidemiologic methods and many other courses and mentored trainees at the graduate level, first at the University of Toronto then Queen’s University for the majority of her career. Dr Aronson’s research on meta-analysis methods and cancer risk associated with environmental and occupational exposureshas impacted public health policy, workplace regulations, and international cancer causation assessment. Honours include a graduate scholarship in her name donated by a former studentand a Research Scholar Award, Research Excellence Award, Career Scientist Award, several visiting professorships, and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of volunteer service. Service roles include hundreds of scientific committees and peer-review contributions in Canada and internationally, founding member of the Queen’s University Sinclair Cancer Research Institute, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health. Dr Aronson gratefully acknowledges the contributions of many collaborators including trainees.

2025 Geoffrey R. Howe Outstanding Contribution Award - Tibor Schuster

Dr Tibor Schuster accomplished his early academic and professional education at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich and the Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He obtained his doctorate in Biostatistics from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics at the LMU. Subsequently, he received a post-doctoral award from the Canadian Network of Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) and carried out a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacoepidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University and the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montreal. He continued with a research fellowship at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne where he was acting Director of Biostatistics at the newly established Melbourne Children’s Trial Centre in 2015. In August 2016, Dr Schuster started a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine. He is holder of a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Biostatistical Methods for Primary Care Research. In 2019, he's been the acting Director of the Methods Development Component of the Quebec SPOR-SUPPORT (Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials) Unit and since July 2019, the Graduate Program Director for the Ph.D. program and Postdoctoral Fellows at the Department of Family Medicine. Dr Schuster taught biostatistical methods at renowned institutions in Germany, Canada and Australia. He acted and is acting as supervisor and mentor for graduate and doctoral students in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology and bio-medical research.

2025 Distinguished Service Award - Mark Ferro

Dr. Mark Ferro is the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and Associate Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He has been an active member of CSEB for over 15 years participating in the biennial conferences as an abstract reviewer, attendee, and speaker. In 2018, Dr. Ferro was elected to the CSEB Board of Directors. He served as President from 2020 to 2022 and oversaw CSEB’s first virtual conference in 2021on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. He formally and informally mentors trainee and early career CSEB members.

Dr. Ferro also serves CSEB’s mission more broadly through his roles asan Associate Editor of Child: Care, Health and Development and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, where he focuses on research related to child psychiatric epidemiology.

Congratulations to the 2023 CSEB Award Winners!

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner - Lisa Lix

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Lisa Lix is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Canada, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Methods for Electronic Health Data Quality, and Director of the Data Science Platform in the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation. Her research expertise lies in statistical methods for complex healthcare data and patient-reported outcome measures. She collaborates widely with research groups and organizations across Canada, including Health Data Research Network Canada, Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

2023 Early Career Award Winner - Laura Duncan

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Dr. Laura Duncan is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University and the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Her program of research aims to generate evidence and measurement tools that support a population health approach to the assessment of child and youth mental health need and the provision of services to address these needs. She develops and evaluates brief, practical measurement tools that can be used to assess child and youth mental health need, and explores how data collected via these measures, combined with administrative and Census data, can be used to plan and evaluate service responses to children’s mental health need.
Dr. Duncan holds an Early Career Award from Hamilton Health Sciences Research and received a New Investigator Research Grant from the SickKids Foundation and CIHR-Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) to co-develop, implement and evaluate a prototype Child and Youth Mental Health Information System. She is also a Co-Principal Investigator on a project to develop a deep-learning healthcare system in child and youth mental health.

2023 Geoffrey R. Howe Outstanding Contribution Award Winner - Marie-Elise Parent

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Dr. Marie-Elise Parent is professor in epidemiology at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique of the University of Quebec, in Montreal. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Montreal.

Her research program focuses on environmental causes of cancer, especially prostate cancer. Dr. Parent has received several career awards from the Fonds de la recherche du Québec - Santé and an Honorable Mention for the Alice Hamilton Award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, of the US CDC. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer.

Dr. Parent has authored some 200 publications, sits on three editorial boards, has served on several national and international advisory committees and has been member or chair of over 40 peer-review panels. She has contributed to training 43 graduate students. She is highly involved in activities at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO) and is the Canadian representative on its Scientific Council.

PAST AWARD WINNERS