2023 AWARD WINNERS

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.

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.

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.