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Hot Topics: Facts aren't real We're back! While we are excited to be back to share another Hot Topics session with all of you, we all know there is truly only one hot topic in public health these days. But if you look under the patina of COVID click-bait, case numbers, and asinine statements from […]

Alberta’s Tomorrow Project – A Health Research Platform Jennifer Vena is the Scientific Director of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project, a longitudinal cohort study of 55,000 Albertans currently in its 20th year, that sits in Cancer Research & Analytics in CancerControl Alberta, Alberta Health Services. ATP functions as a health research platform, with the goal of supporting […]

Drs. Megan Highet and Jean-Christophe Boucher from ACPLF will be presenting the CEPR Rounds on November 26. Presentation Title: Mixed messages: interdisciplinary research to inform population and targeted interventions to increase HPV vaccine confidence via the virtual health setting. Brief Bios: Megan has been leading research on community health and social factors contributing to inequities […]

Dr. Jessica McNeil will be presenting findings on sleep duration and patterns and cancer incidence from the Alberta Tomorrow Project cohort at the 42nd Annual American Society for Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Conference in New York on March 10-13, 2018.

As the recipient of the Howard Research Excellence Award from the Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Dr. Jessica McNeil will be presenting her research at the upcoming Charbonneau Cancer Institute Research Symposium to be held on February 2, 2018, at the Health Sciences Centre. https://charbonneau.ucalgary.ca/annual-research-symposium  

Dr. Darren Brenner will be participating in the American Association of Cancer Research Conference on Obesity and Cancer this weekend, in Chicago, Illinois. His submitted abstract will be part of the opening plenary symposium of the conference. In addition, his abstract will be highlighted in a press release from the AACR as well as from […]

Our October talk is scheduled for Friday, October 27, 2017 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm MDT.  Andrew Min (Cancer Registry and Surveillance & Reporting) and Qinggang Wang (CEPR) will give an introduction to the new AHS Linux SAS Server. 

Third Wednesday of every month – CEPR Journal Club – These meetings will be a time to discuss a recent journal article from a broad topic base including but not limited to, cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention, biostatistical methods, genetic...

Second Wednesday of every month – CEPR Research Forum – Based on several requests from the staff members and trainees in the department we have decided to change the format of our monthly research forum

First Wednesday of every month – CEPR Rounds – CEPR Rounds will take place on the first Wednesday of each month from 11am to 12noon in room 20a/b on the ground floor of the HCC