Laura Rosella

Adjunct Scientist
Site Director

ICES Affiliation

ICES UofT
Populations & Public Health Research Program

Phone
416-978-6064

Biography

Contact Laura Rosella

@LauraCRosella

Education

PhD, Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
MPH, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
BSc, Life Sciences and Statistics, University of Toronto

Research Focus

Health and wellness promotion
Endocrine and metabolic disorders
Social determinants of health
Health services research
Diet and nutrition

Other Affiliations

Scientist, Public Health Ontario
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Member, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
President, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Recent ICES Grants

Health system evaluation of the gap in treatment for the delivery of opioid agonist treatments among individuals with opioid use disorder in Ontario

Principal investigators: Bayoumi AM, Fairclough L, Leece P
Co-investigators: Kahan M, Taha SA, Gomes T, Kendall C, Manson H, Nosyk BP, Rosella LC, Smith B, Strike CJ, Yu M
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant: Evaluation of Interventions to Address the Opioid Crisis
2019-2020; $99,997
Influenza vaccines, statins, and laboratory-confirmed influenza outcomes in older adults: can vaccines and statins reduce the burden of influenza?

Principal investigator: Kwong J
Co-investigators: Buchan S, Campitelli M, Rosella L, Schwartz K
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme Grant
2018-2020; $202,725
Population health analytics in action: improving impact, sustainability and equity in the health care system

Principal investigator: Rosella L
Co-investigators: Henry D, Stukel T, Walker J, Wodchis W
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Foundation Scheme Grant
2016-2021; $1,155,257

Recent Awards & Recognition

Connaught Global Challenge Award

2018: Dr. Laura Rosella awarded $250,000 to launch a global network to advance innovative research and training in predictive analytics. Read more.
7/23/2018
Top 40 under 40

2018: Dr. Laura Rosella named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40. The annual list recognizes the achievements of 40 Canadians who have demonstrated remarkable success while under 40 years of age.
7/3/2018
The Bill Silverman Prize

2017: Awarded to Drs. Laura Rosella and David Henry for the paper “Risk of bias in systematic reviews of non-randomized studies of adverse cardiovascular effects of thiazolidinediones and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors: application of a new Cochrane risk of bias tool” by Cochrane at its annual summit. The prize is offered annually and explicitly acknowledges Cochrane's value of criticism, with a view to helping to improve its work, and thus achieve its aim of helping people make well-informed decisions about health care by providing the best possible evidence on the effects of healthcare interventions.
9/15/2017

Recent ICES Publications

2/11/2019

Equity and impact: Ontario’s infant rotavirus immunization program five years following implementation. A population-based cohort study

Wilson SE, Rosella LC, Wang J, Renaud A, Le Saux N, Crowcroft NS, Desai S, Harris T, Bolotin S, Gubbay J, Deeks SL. Vaccine. 2019; 37(17):2408-14. Epub 2019 Feb 11.

1/29/2019

Neighbourhood walkability and the incidence of diabetes: an inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis

Booth GL, Creatore MI, Luo J. Fazli GS, Johns A, Rosella LC, Glazier RH, Moineddin R, Gozdyra P, Austin PC. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2019; 73(4):287-94. Epub 2019 Jan 29.

1/25/2019

Population risk and burden of health behavioral related all-cause, premature, and amenable deaths in Ontario Canada: Canadian Community Health Survey-linked mortality files

Rosella LC, Kornas K, Huang A, Grant L, Bornbaum C, Henry D. Ann Epidemiol. 2019; Jan 25 [Epub ahead of print].

See more ICES Publications

News coverage

The Star3/15/2017Article

Newcomers to Canada benefit from ‘healthy immigrant effect,’ Toronto study finds

The Globe and Mail11/14/2016Article

High-income men now outliving low-income women in Canada, study finds

CTV News8/17/2015Article