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Cultural Competence

Cultural Competence

Queen's University 127 Jeffery Hall, 48 University Avenue, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Workshop held Wednesday, March 2, 2022 This workshop was presented by the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI). It introduced the concept of cultural competence and provided strategies to help participants increase their self-awareness and awareness of other cultures. It also outlined what workplaces can do to increase cultural competence for more inclusive and productive […]

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Engaging in Dialogue About Race & Bias

Queen's University 127 Jeffery Hall, 48 University Avenue, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Workshop held on Monday, April 11, 2022 This workshop was co-sponsored by CANSSI and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). The session was led by Dr. Sandra Miles of Academic Impressions. Resources from the workshop: Slide deck from workshop (23 slides, PDF format) Virtual training workbook on racial bias (PDF format)

Student Evaluations of Teaching

CANSSI Townhall on Student Evaluations of Teaching

Queen's University 127 Jeffery Hall, 48 University Avenue, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Philip B. Stark, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, has had an enormous impact on the way student evaluations of teaching are—and aren’t—used to measure teaching effectiveness. On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. PST, Dr. Stark will be the guest speaker at an online “CANSSI Townhall […]

CANSSI/SSC Cross-Country Tour | The Role of Statisticians and Statistical Thinking in the Pandemic Era

Dr. Lehana Thabane, Vice-President of Research at St Joseph’s Healthcare—Hamilton; Scientific Director of the Research Institute at St Joseph’s Healthcare; Professor of Biostatistics and Former Interim Chair/Associate Chair of the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University Hosted by Dr. Joanna Mills Flemming, CANSSI Associate Director, Atlantic Region Friday, October 14 […]

Addressing Conflicts

Addressing Conflicts Related to Bias, Privilege, and Identity in the STEM Fields

Queen's University 127 Jeffery Hall, 48 University Avenue, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

As part of its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) program, CANSSI regularly organizes EDI workshops and educational sessions for the statistical sciences community, often in partnership with Academic Impressions. We invite you to join us for this two-hour online led by Chandani Patel of New York University and co-presented by the Pacific Institute for the […]

CANSSI/SSC Cross-Country Tour | Visualization as a Diagnostic Tool for Estimands with Pairwise Matching of Multiple Treatments

Queen's University 127 Jeffery Hall, 48 University Avenue, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Gabrielle Simoneau, Senior Principal Biostatistician, Biogen Digital Health Hosted by Dr. Joanna Mills Flemming, CANSSI Associate Director, Atlantic Region Friday, November 18 | 12:00–12:45 p.m. ET Biogen Digital Health, Montreal On Zoom   This event is past. WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING   Presentation Abstract: Propensity score matching is among the most popular confounding adjustment […]