2024 CSFN-SGI Policy Symposium & Networking Event

The 2024 CSFN-SGI Policy Symposium & Networking Event is organized by the Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI) at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. This event consists a dynamic 90-minute Policy Symposium, followed by an equally enriching 90-minute networking session at Notman House (15min walk from downtown campus).

The symposium will feature the following speakers:

• The Honorable Senator Rosa Galvez

On the Multifunctional Future of Concrete

On the Multifunctional Future of Concrete

Featuring a talk by Admir Masic, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at MIT.

This is a free, hybrid event hosted by the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, the McGill Institute for Advances Materials, the Centre for Storage and Conversion of Energy, and the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative.

2024 CAnD3 Keynote Address: Health inequities: Looking to the past and the future

We are excited to welcome you to the 2024 CAnD3 Keynote Address! This hybrid event is the culmination of the 2023-2024 Training Program. CAnD3 is thrilled to have two amazing speakers, Dr. Siddiqi and Dr. Carabali, joining us for what will be a great Keynote Address. We are also excited to host for the first time the Dragon's Den finals in person where the finalists from the 2023/2024 cohort will compete for the grand prize! The Fellows will also give us a glimpse on their work done in data-driven decision making alongside our incredible partners. This will be a moment to celebrate the past four cohorts of CAnD3 Fellows from 2020 to 2024 and welcome the incoming cohort for 2024/2025.

We hope that you will join us, whether in-person or virtually, for this exciting celebration of our program's successful delivery. To learn more about the CAnD3 program and our impact, read our recently released annual report.

Itinerary  10:30 - 11:00 | Registration with coffee 11:00 - 12:15 | Keynote Lecture by Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi and Dr. Mabel Carabali More about Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi and Dr. Mabel Carabali Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi

Professor, Population Health Equity, University of Toronto

Senior Scientist and Edwin S.H. Leong Chair of Child Policy Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

Arjumand Siddiqi is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist and Edwin S.H. Leong Chair of Child Policy Research at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. At University of Toronto, she is also appointed in Sociology, Public Policy, and Women and Gender Studies, and is a Senior Fellow of Massey College. She holds Adjunct Professorships at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Siddiqi’s research focuses on understanding the nature and causes of health inequities, with particular emphasis on how they are influenced by social policies and other societal conditions. Dr. Siddiqi frequently works with organizations, including governments and international agencies, on issues of social determinants of health, health inequalities, and related matters. She was a member of the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. She is the recipient of the 2022 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Population and Public Health Mid-Career Trailblazer Award.  She received her doctorate in Social Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  Dr. Mabel Carabali

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, McGill University

Dr. Mabel Carabali obtained her medical degree from the Universidad Libre in Colombia, a PhD in epidemiology from McGill University and did her postdoctoral training at the Social Epidemiology Lab at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Carabali held a position as Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal and has more than 14 years of experience in international epidemiological and biomedical research of infectious diseases and social epidemiology. Dr. Carabali is a social and infectious diseases epidemiologist and her current research focuses on assessing the effect of underreporting and misclassification of the outcome and socioeconomic exposures in infectious diseases; and the expansion of statistical methods for the study and understanding of intersectionality. Other projects include fever surveillance studies for emergent pathogens in Latin America, the analysis of social determinants and socioeconomic disparities for different outcomes in urban settings of the Pan-American region, and racial inequalities and spatiotemporal distribution of police fatal encounters in the US. Dr. Carabali is also an Associate Editor at PLosNeglected Tropical Diseases (PLos NTD).