Centre for Global Health Research

Science for better global health

Our mission is to lead high-quality public health research that advances global health for all, with particular attention to the world’s poorest populations.

Meet our Team

Prabhat Jha
Executive Director

Patrick Brown
Associate Director, Biostatistics

Anna Dare
Associate Director, Global Surgery

Xuyang Tang
Postdoctoral Fellow

Ahmed Osman
Research Coordinator

Alimatu Musa Vandi
Regional Coordinator, Healthy Sierra Leone

Anteneh Tesfaye Assalif
National Coordinator, Healthy Sierra Leone

Anudari Zorigtbaatar
Resident Physician, General Surgery, Graduate Studies IHPME, University of Toronto

Asha Behdinan
Resident Physician, Vascular Surgery, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

Bernard Miskic
Research Coordinator

Catherine Meh
Research Coordinator

Daphne Wu
Research Coordinator

Emily Somerset
PhD Candidate, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto

Eo Rin Cho
Postdoctoral Fellow

Noah Ripstein
Research Assistant

Peter Rodriguez
Senior GIS Specialist

Rajeev Kamadod
Senior Software Developer

Richard Wen
Data Scientist

Sonali Amarasekera
PhD Candidate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Thomas Kai Sze Ng
Full Stack Developer, Database Coordinator

Venus Bona Jaraba
Administrator

Wilson Suraweera
Biostatistician

Xue Man
Research Coordinator

Yellapu Naga Balakrishna
Software Developer

Help the living Study the dead

Latest Publications

The root-Gaussian Cox Process for Spatio-temporal Disease Mapping with Aggregated Data

Asfaw, ZG, PE Brown, and J Stafford. Computational Statistics. 2024

Hybrid immunity from SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in Canadian adults: cohort study

Brown PE, Fu SH, Newcombe L,, Jha P (Senior Author), Ab-C Collaborators. Elife. 2024.

Estimating the population size of personscontending with homelessness usingelectronic health records

Dong, GY, K Moselle, S Robertson, PE Brown, and LLE Cowen. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 2024. qnae041.

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Latest News

EVENT: DEATH, EVIDENCE AND EVERYTHING ELSE

APRIL 1, 2025

Professor Jha is taking leave from University of Toronto (as of September 2025) to become Nuffield Professor of Population Health and Head of Department at University of Oxford. This day is intended to stir…

Smoking Cessation and Short- and Longer-Term Mortality

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In this pooled analysis of four national cohorts in the US, UK, Canada and Norway (total of…

Trends in female-selective abortion among Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Preference for sons and smaller families and, in the case of China,…