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David Buckeridge

Associate Academic Member
Full Professor, McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
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Biography

David Buckeridge is a professor at the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University, as well as chief digital health officer for the McGill University Health Centre and executive scientific director of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

A Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics and Data Science, Buckeridge has projected health system demand for the Canadian province of Quebec, led data management and analytics for the Canadian Immunity Task Force, and supported the World Health Organization in monitoring global immunity to SARS-CoV-2. He has an MD from Queen's University, an MSc in epidemiology from the University of Toronto and a PhD in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.

Current Students

Eva Gao
PhD - McGill University
eva.gao@mila.quebec
Gabriel Potvin
Master's Research - McGill University
gabriel.potvin@mila.quebec
Kalash Dave
Master's Research - McGill University
dave.kalash@mila.quebec
Rada Rusu
Master's Research - McGill University
rada.rusu@mila.quebec
Yannan Shen
Master's Research - McGill University
yannan.shen@mila.quebec

Publications

Importation of SARS-CoV-2 following the "semaine de relache" and Quebec's (Canada) COVID-19 burden - a mathematical modeling study
Arnaud Godin
Yiqing Xia
David Buckeridge
Sharmistha Mishra
Dirk Douwes-Schultz
Yannan Shen
Maxime Lavigne
Mélanie Drolet
Alexandra M. Schmidt
Marc Brisson
Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
Background: The Canadian epidemics of COVID-19 exhibit distinct early trajectories, with Quebec bearing a very high initial burden. The sema… (see more)ine de relache, or March break, took place two weeks earlier in Quebec as compared to the rest of Canada. This event may have played a role in the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We aimed to examine the role of case importation in the early transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Quebec. Methods: Using detailed surveillance data, we developed and calibrated a deterministic SEIR-type compartmental model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. We explored the impact of altering the number of imported cases on hospitalizations. Specifically, we investigated scenarios without case importation after March break, and as scenarios where cases were imported with the same frequency/timing as neighboring Ontario. Results: A total of 1,544 and 1,150 returning travelers were laboratory-confirmed in Quebec and Ontario, respectively (with symptoms onset before 2020-03-25). The cumulative number of hospitalizations could have been reduced by 55% (95% credible interval [95%CrI]: 51-59%) had no cases been imported after Quebec's March break. However, had Quebec experienced Ontario's number of imported cases, cumulative hospitalizations would have only been reduced by 12% (95%CrI: 8-16%). Interpretation: Our results suggest that case importation played an important role in the early spread of COVID-19 in Quebec. Yet, heavy importation of SARS-CoV-2 in early March could be insufficient to resolve interprovincial heterogeneities in cumulative hospitalizations. The importance of other factors -public health preparedness, responses, and capacity- should be investigated.
2020-10-25
International Journal of Infectious Diseases (published)
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The role of case importation in explaining differences in early SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in Canada—A mathematical modeling study of surveillance data
Arnaud Godin
Yiqing Xia
David Buckeridge
Sharmistha Mishra
Dirk Douwes-Schultz
Yannan Shen
Maxime Lavigne
Mélanie Drolet
Alexandra M. Schmidt
Marc Brisson
Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
2020-10-25
International Journal of Infectious Diseases (published)
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Parametric models for combined failure time data from an incident cohort study and a prevalent cohort study with follow-up
James H. McVittie
David B. Wolfson
David A. Stephens
Vittorio Addona
David Buckeridge
2020-10-12
The International Journal of Biostatistics (published)
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COVI-AgentSim: an Agent-based Model for Evaluating Methods of Digital Contact Tracing
Prateek Gupta
Tegan Maharaj
Martin Weiss
Nasim Rahaman
Hannah Alsdurf
abhinav sharma
Nanor Minoyan
Soren Harnois-Leblanc
Victor Schmidt
Pierre-Luc St-Charles
Tristan Deleu
andrew williams
Akshay Patel
Meng Qu
Olexa Bilaniuk
gaetan caron
pierre luc carrier
satya ortiz gagne
Marc-Andre Rousseau
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Joumana Ghosn
Yang Zhang
Bernhard Schölkopf
Jian Tang
Irina Rish
Chris Pal
Joanna Merckx
Eilif Benjamin Muller
Yoshua Bengio
2020-10-02
OpenReview.net/Anonymous_Preprint (unknown)
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NutriQuébec: a unique web-based prospective cohort study to monitor the population’s eating and other lifestyle behaviours in the province of Québec
Annie Lapointe
Catherine Laramée
Ariane Belanger-Gravel
David Buckeridge
Sophie Desroches
Didier Garriguet
Lise Gauvin
Simone Lemieux
Céline Plante
Benoit Lamarche
2020-10-01
BMJ Open (published)
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Correction to: Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research
Lindsay McLaren
Paula Braitstein
David Buckeridge
Damien Contandriopoulos
Maria I. Creatore
Guy Faulkner
David Hammond
Steven J. Hoffman
Yan Kestens
Scott Leatherdale
Jonathan McGavock
Wendy V. Norman
Candace Nykiforuk
Valéry Ridde
Janet Smylie
The article “Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research,” written by Lindsay McLaren et al… (see more)., was originally published Online First without Open Access.
2020-09-02
Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique (published)
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SeroTracker: a global SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence dashboard
Rahul K. Arora
Abel Joseph
Jordan Van Wyk
Simona Rocco
Austin Atmaja
Ewan May
Tingting Yan
Niklas Bobrovitz
Jonathan Chevrier
Matthew P. Cheng
Tyler Williamson
David Buckeridge
2020-08-04
Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print) (published)
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Precision, Equity, and Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics – A Scoping Review
David Buckeridge
2020-08-01
Yearbook of Medical Informatics (published)
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Special Issue on Novel Informatics Approaches to COVID-19 Research
Hua Xu
David Buckeridge
Fei Wang Guest Editors
2020-06-17
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (published)
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Glossary for public health surveillance in the age of data science
Arnaud Chiolero
David Buckeridge
Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data, closely integrated with the timely dis… (see more)semination of the resulting information to those responsible for preventing and controlling disease and injury. With the rapid development of data science, encompassing big data and artificial intelligence, and with the exponential growth of accessible and highly heterogeneous health-related data, from healthcare providers to user-generated online content, the field of surveillance and health monitoring is changing rapidly. It is, therefore, the right time for a short glossary of key terms in public health surveillance, with an emphasis on new data-science developments in the field.
2020-06-10
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (published)
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Precision public health: Dream or reality?
Maureen Dobbins
David Buckeridge
2020-06-04
Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada (published)
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Failure to follow medication changes made at hospital discharge is associated with adverse events in 30 days
Daniala L Weir
Aude Motulsky
Michal Abrahamowicz
Todd C. Lee
Steven Morgan
David Buckeridge
Robyn Tamblyn
2020-05-20
Health Services Research (published)
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