We are pleased to inform you that data from The Census of Population - 2016 are now available to researchers with approved projects. Contact your local RDC to know more.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently released a report examining asthma hospitalization by age, sex, income, location and education among children and youth at the provincial/territorial and national levels, as well as patterns over time. Using data from the Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB) (2006–2007 to 2015–2016) housed at the CIHI, as well as linked data from the 2006 Census–Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), the report shows that hospitalizations for asthma have declined significantly for both boys and girls over the past decade, and across all age groups, but that asthma continues to be one of the leading causes of hospital stays for people younger than 20, with more than 6,000 hospitalizations in 2015–2016. Moreover, children and youth living in lower-income neighbourhoods continued to experience significantly higher rates of hospitalization than those in higher-income neighbourhoods. Read the full report here.

Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) requests expressions of interest from students and postdoctoral fellows who wish to participate in its Student Exchange Program, and from those who would we willing to host them. The P2P exchange program provides relocation travel funding so that students and post-doctoral fellows have opportunities to participate in new research or broaden the scope and breadth of research they already have underway; collect and/or analyze data at another university, at a settlement agency, or at a government department; and take courses at another university while also conducting research there. The due date for applications is May 28, 2018. For more details, click on the news title. 

The Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Victoria is seeking an Instructor for its online course Longitudinal Analysis and Multi-level Modelling of Population Health Data, to be offered in May 2019. This course has already been developed, but review and minor changes of curriculum will be required prior to the course offering. This position requires extensive working knowledge of longitudinal analysis and multi-level modeling. The successful candidate will be familiar with multivariate study design and analysis methods. Interested candidate are invited to submit a résumé with a letter of intent and references by May 14.