2020 CARRFS Symposium (Virtual)
A pre-conference event with Public Health 2020
The Art and Science of Data Linkage: Applications to Public Health Surveillance across Socio-economic and Environmental Determinants of Health
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Proceedings Report (pdf)
Following the announcement that Public Health 2020 would be held as a virtual event from October 14 - 16, the CARRFS Organizing Committee hosted the 2020 CARRFS Symposium, “The Art and Science of Data Linkage: Applications to Public Health Surveillance across Socio-economic and Environmental Determinants of Health” as a free virtual event by registration on Tuesday, October 13.
CARRFS thankfully acknowledges the financial support provided by PHAC and SAS Institute Canada and the secretariat support provided by CPHA and BC Centre for Disease Control for the 2020 CARRFS Symposium.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dr. Bernard Choi (ON)
Dr. Elaina MacIntyre (ON)
Dr. Saroj Niraula (MB)
Ms. Kristin Weatherall (BC)
Dr. Drona Rasali (Chair, BC)
Dr. Doug Dover (AB)
Ms. Céline Plante (QC)
Dr. Meg Sears (ON)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the CARRFS 2020 Symposium, public health professionals will be able to:
Describe the value of data linkage for public health surveillance activities that span socio-economic and environmental determinants of health;
Explore the opportunities and challenges of data linkage at the population level; and
Discuss the potential opportunities for data linkage to conduct environmental health surveillance, including climate change.
SESSION 1
8:00am PDT
11:00am EDT
12:00pm ADT
Welcoming remarks (10 min)
CARRFS: Brief History and Present State
Dr. Drona Rasali, Chair of the CARRFS 2020 Symposium Organizing Committee
8:10am PDT
11:10am EDT
12:10pm ADT
Keynote (50 min)
Innovations in Population-Based Data Linkage and Methods for Risk Factor Surveillance
Dr. Lisa Lix, University of Manitoba
Lisa Lix is Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Director of the Data Science Platform in the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, and Senior Scientist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Her research interests include health services research methodology, quality of administrative health databases, the analysis of repeated measures and longitudinal data, and robust statistical methods for patient-reported outcomes; she has published more than 340 papers in these areas. Dr. Lix collaborates widely on projects about population health and the association between chronic disease and quality of life. She has served the Statistical Society of Canada since 2005 in various capacities and was President of the Biostatistics Section in 2010. She is currently co-chair of the Data Quality Working Group for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System.
9:00am PDT
12:00pm EDT
1:00pm ADT
Rapid Fire Presentations (60 min; each presentation will be 10min followed by 2 minutes for Q&A)
Conducting research studies utilizing data linkage with First Nations (FN) identifiers
Karen Kopciuk and James NewsomeHealth Inequalities Data Tool: How data from multiple sources tell stories of determinants of health
Kiri Shafto and Colin SteensmaLinked child health data from TARGet Kids! primary-care practice-based network to ICES data
Laura N. Anderson, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Jessica A. Omand, Charles Keown-Stoneman, Jonathon L. Maguire, Patricia C. Parkin, Teresa To, and Catherine S. Birkencchsflow: Harmonizing risk factor variable definitions across multiple Canadian Community Health Survey cycles
Doug Manuel, Warsame Yusuf, Rostyslav Vyuha, and Carol Bennett
Presentation from SAS (30 min)
10:00am PDT
1:00pm EDT
2:00pm ADT
SESSION 2
Welcoming remarks (10 min)
Dr. Meg Sears, Member of the CARRFS 2020 Symposium Organizing Committee
11:30am PDT
2:30pm EDT
3:30pm ADT
Keynote (50 min)
Examining the Environmental Determinants of Health Through Novel Data Linkages
Dr. Elaina MacIntyre, Public Health Ontario, University of Toronto
Elaina MacIntyre is an epidemiologist specialist on the Environmental and Occupational Health team at Public Health Ontario (PHO) and adjunct professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She holds a PhD from the School of Environmental Health at the University of British Columbia and has previously worked as an Environmental Epidemiologist at the German Research Centre for Environmental Health. At PHO, Elaina primarily works in the areas of: environmental epidemiology, environmental health surveillance, and non-communicable disease clusters.
11:40am PDT
2:40pm EDT
3:40pm ADT
12:30pm PDT
3:30pm EDT
4:30pm ADT
Rapid Fire Presentations (60min; each presentation will be 10min followed by 2 minutes for Q&A)
Project Big Life Planning Tool: A web-based application to predict population death and life expectancy to evaluate the preventive benefit of health policies using the Canadian Community Health Survey
Doug Manuel, Luke Bailey, Rhiannon Roberts, and Carol BennettSocio-economic disparities in food consumption and nutritional intake among Quebecers: Food for thought and action
Céline Plante and Louis RochetteSafety and effectiveness of new targeted anti-cancer drugs approved for treatment of cancer in Manitoba: a population based study
Parisa Selseleh and Saroj NiraulaDisproportionate rates of e-cigarette use across demographic, socio-economic and community environment factors in British Columbia (BC), 2015-2016
Drona Rasali and Michael Schwandt
1:30pm PDT
4:30pm EDT
5:30pm ADT
Panel discussion on the day (25 min)
Bernard Choi, Saroj Niraula, Douglas Dover, Céline Plante, Kristin Weatherall
Members of the CARRFS 2020 Symposium Organizing Committee
Entertaining round-up: Big Data Small Story: Potential benefits and issues of big data (5 min)
Douglas Dover and Meg Sears, Members of the CARRFS 2020 Symposium Organizing Committee
1:55pm PDT
4:55pm EDT
5:55pm ADT