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Todd Norwood

Scientist, Surveillance Research, Cancer Control & Evidence Integration, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health

todd.norwood@ontariohealth.ca

 

Research Interests

  • Environmental and spatial epidemiology
  • Cancer surveillance and research
  • Advanced spatial and statistical analysis methods
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Health equity and demographics 

Current Appointments

  • Scientist, Surveillance Research, Prevention and Cancer Control, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health

Selected Past Appointments

  • Guest Lecturer, Environmental Epidemiology
  • Lead Instructor, Geospatial Methods for Cancer Surveillance Workshop, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
  • Tutor, Biostatistics

Education and Credentials

  • PhD, Epidemiology
  • MSA, Spatial Analysis
  • BES, Environmental Studies and Geography
  • Member, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Member, Association of Public Health Epidemiologists of Ontario

Skills and Experience

  • Research studies funded by the Cancer Research Society, Cancer Care Ontario’s Population Studies Research Network, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada (GeoConnections) and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
  • Principal investigator for neighbourhood-level liver cancer and risk factors in the Ottawa, Peel, Toronto and York regions
  • Advanced spatial analysis to characterize environmental impacts on cancer risk
  • The under or never-screened for a cancer screening project
  • Health effects of past air pollution in single industry towns in Canada
  • The Ontario Health and Environment Integrated Surveillance Project
  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams 
  • Communicating analytic results using data visualization methods

Selected Publications

 

Norwood TA, Buajitti E, Lipscombe LL, Stukel TA, Rosella LC. Incidental detection, imaging modalities and temporal trends of differentiated thyroid cancer in Ontario: a population-based retrospective cohort study. CMAJ Open. 2020 Nov 2;8(4):E695-E705. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200095. PMID: 33139390.

Norwood TA, Encisa C, Wang X, Seliske L, Cunningham J, De P. A Bayesian shared components modeling approach to develop small area indicators of social determinants of health with measures of uncertainty. Can J Public Health. 2020 Jun;111(3):342-357. doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00321-6. Epub 2020 Jun 4. PMID: 32500336.

Norwood TA, Rosella LC, Buajitti E, Lipscombe LL, Stukel TA. Access to diagnostic imaging and incidental detection of differentiated thyroid cancer in Ontario: A population-based retrospective cohort study. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2022 Nov;43:100540. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2022.100540. Epub 2022 Oct 7. PMID: 36460449.

For a full list of Todd Norwood's journal articles, visit PubMed.