inequity

This webinar brings together a diverse group of scholars and experts to discuss some of the inequity and systemic vulnerabilities of covid-19 pandemic. Nathaniel Osgood serves as Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan, and Director of the Computational Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics Laboratory. His research focuses on combining tools from Systems Science, Data Science, Computational Science and Mathematics to inform decision making in health & health care. Dr. Osgood serves as Chief Research Advisor for the Saskatchewan Centre for Patient Oriented Research and has contributed to or co-led over a dozen initiatives involving people with lived experience with dynamic modeling, machine learning and/or big data collection efforts. Dr. Osgood served as the technical director of COVID-19 modeling for the Province of Saskatchewan from March 2020-April 2021.