Every year, the Canadian Research Data Centre Network supports the next generation of highly qualified personnel through the CRDCN Emerging Scholars Award, recognizing outstanding doctoral students at Canadian universities using Research Data Centre data to conduct their research.

The CRDCN Emerging Scholars Webinar will showcase their research and their pathway to the RDC, featuring presentations by eight Emerging Scholars in both English and French.

CRDCN Emerging Scholars

Ana Cristina Murta Collares

Ana Collares is a Health Sciences PhD candidate at Carleton University researching residential relocation of older adults related to health care utilization. Specialized in Data Analysis, Demography and Social Inequalities. She is an experienced researcher with a focus on health, education, aging and migration.

Bruno Dias dos Santos

Bruno Dias dos Santos is a PhD candidate in Geography at McMaster University. His research interests include studies in the area of urban inequality. He has experience in urban remote sensing studies, spatial data analysis, and collaborative mapping, currently studying how to create equity standards in transportation.

Jacob Hazen

Jacob’s research explores the intersections of Economics, Data Science, and Computer Science, with a particular emphasis on the applications of NLP in economic contexts. His research interests span applied microeconomics, labor economics, applied econometrics, child development, and education.

Brianna Frangione

Brianna is a doctoral student in Epidemiology with a strong foundation in population health and quantitative research methods. Her current research focuses on dementia mortality from low-dose ionizing radiation using large occupational cohorts and advanced methods in exposure modelling, with the goal of informing evidence-based occupational and environmental health policies.

Rina Lall

Rina Lall is a PhD candidate in epidemiology at McGill University. She holds an MSc in public health and a BSc (Honours) in biochemistry. Her research interests include examining socioeconomic and ethnocultural health inequalities in maternal, perinatal, and paediatric health, and assessing impacts of policies on population health outcomes.

Doris Duran Napolitano

Doris is a PhD student in epidemiology researching mortality from chronic diseases. Her main interests include health inequalities and mortality registration systems, focused on producing evidence to support policy and reduce disparities in health outcomes. She is committed to rigorous, data-driven public health.

Nelie Angèle Nembot (presented in French)

Nelie Nembot est étudiante au doctorat en économie du développement à l’Université de Sherbrooke. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur l’économie de l’environnement et la santé. Sa recherche porte sur la relation entre l’exposition à la pollution atmosphérique et la santé.

Boris Laurence Vinbamba (presented in French)

Boris est originaire du Burkina Faso et s’intéresse aux questions liées à la santé, plus précisément à la santé mentale, en mettant l’accent sur les liens existants avec l’économie, sous forme d’évaluations d’impacts.

Kai Zhang

Kai is a PhD candidate at the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa and a member of the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute. His research focuses on physical fitness, physical activity and population health.