Dr. Anita Koushik is a Professor in the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Principal Scientist at St. Mary's Research Centre and inaugural holder of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Chair in Community Cancer Care at St. Mary’s. Since August 2024, she is Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology. Her research program aims to increase our understanding of the etiology of cancer in order to improve primary prevention and risk assessment efforts. She also conducts research on the identification of modifiable factors that can improve prognosis and quality of life of cancer survivors. Her current research focuses on ovarian cancer and is based on a population-based case-control study and a prospective cohort of survivors. With these studies, she is part of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Current projects on ovarian cancer include understanding the role of lifestyle factors over the life course in its development, the impact of contraception types on its incidence, and how lifestyle may influence prognosis and quality of life among survivors.
Dr. Koushik received a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Alberta in 1993, an MSc in Community Health & Epidemiology from Queen's University in 1999, and a PhD in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in 2004. She then conducted postdoctoral training in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has developed and taught courses in epidemiologic methods at the introductory, intermediate and advanced levels.
Dr. Koushik is currently recruiting a post-doctoral fellow in cancer pharmacoepidemiology. More information on the position is available here:Â 
postdoctoral_fellowship_in_cancer_pharmacoepidemiology.pdf
anita.koushik [at] mcgill.ca (Email Dr. Koushik)