Category Archives: News

The APEAL Lab are delighted to be hosting Dr. Klara Mareckova at CHEO Mental Health Research Rounds next Tuesday, July 18, 12-1pm (Eastern). She will present on her research how prenatal stress influences brain structure and function. Please contact Dr. Colman … Continue reading →

The APEAL Lab is interested in applications for two students interested in an MSc in Epidemiology starting in September, 2023. Project #1: Interested in research about the mental health of gay men? Almost 2,000 gay men across Ontario completed a … Continue reading →

Congratulations to APEAL lab members on a recent publication in the CMAJ examining disparities in suicidality risk between sexual minority and transgender youth and their cisgender, heterosexual peers. The APEAL team of Mila Kingsbury, Nicole Hammond, and Ian Colman worked … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Danielle Lemaire, who presented a poster at the European Psychiatric Association Epidemiology Section meeting in Cambridge, U.K. Dr. Colman gave a keynote address at the same meeting.

Congratulations to APEAL members Mila Kingsbury, Zahra Clayborne, and Ian Colman, who recently published a paper In collaboration with colleagues at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the University of Oslo, and Oslo Metropolitan University. The paper examines predictors of … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Dr. Zahra Clayborne, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation: “Biological and psychosocial influences on the associations between prenatal maternal stress and children’s mental health outcomes”. We know Dr. Clayborne will go on to great things!

Congratulations to APEAL PhD candidate Nicole Hammond, whose paper “Adverse childhood experiences and onset of migraine in Canadian adolescents: A cohort study” was recently published in Headache. The study found direct associations between experiencing adverse childhood events and migraine headache, but not … Continue reading →

Congratulations to all the APEAL students who participated in the uOttawa School of Epidemiology and Public Health annual Student Research Day! A particular bravo goes out to PhD Student Shannon Thompson, whose presentation on mental health outcomes of adolescent sexual … Continue reading →

The Applied Psychiatric Epidemiology Across the Life course Lab (APEAL Lab), directed by Dr. Ian Colman, is seeking applicants for a PhD in Epidemiology in the area of child and youth mental health. Specific doctoral research topics could include working … Continue reading →