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A BI-MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER OF CASTOR HIGHLIGHTS, EVENTS & MORE
 
ISSUE I VOLUME XI       June 29, 2023          U54 CA229974
It is with great excitement we announce the addition of Dr. David Mendez as co-Principal Investigator to CAsToR.  Dr. Mendez will co-Lead CAsToR with Dr. Meza, now at BC Cancer, and Dr. Levy. Dr. Mendez is a Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP) at the UM School of Public Health and Director of the HMP Executive Master’s Program. He is currently Co-Lead of Project 2 and the CEC of CAsToR Tobacco Centers for Regulatory Science (TCORS) 2.0. Dr. Mendez is an expert in the analysis and modeling of tobacco control, product and service quality on demand, and policies regarding residential radon.  
View the recording of Dr. Sanchez Romero's recent talk here
CAsToR has over 80 investigators; to date we have published over 120 publications in many leading public health journals, discussing findings ranging from Sociodemographic Patterns of Tobacco Use to the Dynamics of Smoking and E-cigarettes Use Prevalence

Below are links to recent publications. 
Please access the CAsToR Website for a more complete listing. 
Junior Investigators, Thuy Le and Mona Issabakhsh recently published article, "Are the Relevant Risk Factors Being Adequately Captured in Empirical Studies of Smoking Initiation? A Machine Learning Analysis Based on the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study" in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, discusses the use of Machine Learning techniques to automatically uncover informative predictors of smoking onset among adults using the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study.  Read more about the authors innovative techniques here
Access the June CAsToR DAD Beaver Bulletin to read about the newly derived variables available for use in our DAD harmonized datasets.  

Read more in the Beaver Bulletin June issue here
Congratulations, Dr. David Mendez!! 

Dr. Mendez was appointed to Professor of Health Management and Policy, with tenure, School of Public Health, and Professor of Technology and Operations, without tenure, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Congratulations, Dr. Andrew Brouwer!! 

Dr. Brouwer was appointed as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, effective September 1, 2023
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CONGRATULATIONS! 
Luis Zavala, recipient of the Rogel Cancer Center Graduate Student Scholarship.  The scholarship provides $25,000
to offset Mr. Zavala's stipend and tuition during the fifth year of his PhD program! 
The Rogel Cancer Center Medical Student Scholarship recognizes
demonstrated commitment and passion to advance cancer research 
View additional information on the Rogel Gift program here
CONGRATULATIONS! 
Chris Cadham received two predoctoral awards that will support his dissertation research including a Doctoral Foreign Study Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Predoctoral Fellowship in Value Assessment and Outcomes Research from the PhRMA Foundation
View additional information on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research here
CONGRATULATIONS
Chris Cadham!
Doctoral student Chris Cadham also successfully defended his Dissertation proposal, "Elicitation and Application of Direct Equity Weights for Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: The Case of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems for Smoking Cessation" on April 17, 2023.
Access available Recordings and Presentation Slides here
(JOB OPENING)

Research Methodologist (Vancouver, BC)
POSTED: Wed May 31, 2023
DEADLINE: None

The position will involve working on several grant-funded lung cancer and tobacco research studies being conducted at the BC Cancer Research Institute and the UBC School of Population and Public Health. The research areas include: analysis of lung cancer epidemiological data, analysis of longitudinal and cross-sectional tobacco use patterns, mathematical and computational modeling of tobacco use behaviors and lung cancer natural history, and effectiveness and cost-effectiveness analyses of tobacco use and lung cancer prevention interventions.
LEARN MORE AND APPLY FOR THIS POSITION
Michigan Public Health Master of Science Degree in Computational Epidemiology and Systems Modeling

In this program, students are trained to become highly skilled epidemiologists who can understand and analyze public health problems with mathematical and statistical models. 

Epidemiological models and simulation-based analyses are increasingly used to inform public health policy and practice. Notably, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, government agencies, policy-makers and others have used epidemiological models to help inform decision-making and slow the spread of the virus.
More Info on this New M.S. Degree from the University of Michigan
Please access the CAsToR Website for additional information on any of the items highlighted in our announcements.
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