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Many congratulations for Kiyuri Naicker, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on December 19, 2017. Kiyuri’s thesis was entitled “Depression and Anxiety in type 2 Diabetes: Associations with Diabetes Onset, Clinical Management, and Long-Term Mortality”. Her examiners were unanimously positive … Continue reading →

          Collaboration between three APEAL Lab members (Ewa Sucha, Mila Kingsbury, & Ian Colman) with Jane Murphy, Director of the Stirling County Study, and Stephen Gilman, Director of the Health Behaviour Branch at the National Institute … Continue reading →

Many congratulations to Natalia Abraham for successfully defending her MSc thesis entitled “Childhood adversity, deployment-related stress, and mental health in the Canadian Armed Forces”. Natalia completed her MSc as part of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency program. Despite … Continue reading →

Hearty congratulations go out to Michael Martin, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 10, 2017. Micheal’s thesis was entitled “Detection and Treatment of Mental Illness among Prison Inmates: A Validation of Mental Health Screening at Intake to Correctional … Continue reading →

Congratulations to APEAL student Dylan Johnson, whose first-author paper “The association between multiple chemical sensitivity and mental illness: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of Canadians” was recently published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. The study found that Canadians who … Continue reading →

Many congratulations to APEAL Lab alumnus Yasmin Garad on the publication of her paper entitled “Sex-specific differences in the association between childhood adversity and cardiovascular disease in adulthood: evidence from a national cohort study” in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Yasmin was an … Continue reading →

Dr. Colman was delighted to recently support the launch of the Have That Talk campaign. Have That Talk is a program from Ottawa Public Health, in partnership with Bell Let’s Talk, to encourage people to talk to their loved ones … Continue reading →

  Congratulations to Ian Colman,  principal investigator on a successful grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The one-year grant will fund an investigation into the effect of parenting practices during childhood on adolescent mental health and behaviour. … Continue reading →

Congratulations to APEAL PhD candidate François Thériault, who has recently published a paper in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.  The paper, co-authored by Dr. Ian Colman, is based on a project François completed for a graduate course in Psychiatric Epidemiology taught … Continue reading →