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Ernest Lo

Ernest Lo
Contact Information
Address: 

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Bureau d’information et d’études en santé des populations
Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ)
190 Crémazie Blvd. East
Montreal, QC, Canada H2P 1E2

Phone: 
Tel.: 514-864-1600 ext. 3735
Fax: 514-864-1616
Email address: 
ernest.lo [at] mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Ernest Lo holds a PhD in physics from Princeton University and a Masters in biostatistics from McGill. He has worked in diverse fields including theoretical ecology, neuroimaging and bioinformatics. He is currently a biostatistician and research scientist at the Quebec Public Health Institute (INSPQ), as well as Adjunct Professor in the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill. His mandates include health forecasting, the measurement of social inequalities in health and the development and refinement of statistical methods used in public health.

Areas of expertise: 

Statistical methodologies for public health surveillance and application to public health policy-making. Measures of population health, health forecasting analyses and methodology. Current projects: improving the bias and efficiency properties of the life expectancy estimator for small populations, projection analyses of obesity prevalence, projection analyses of cancer mortality and incidence.

Group: 
Adjunct Professors
Research areas: 
Biostatistics
Public Health
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