Bridget Irwin Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Field epidemiologist placed at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) in environmental health services.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Plan and carryout an evaluation of a facility-level wastewater surveillance system in Toronto, Ontario using a mixed-methods approach to assess a variety of system attributes, with the goal of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the current program and improving its usefulness for the city of Toronto.• Conduct and transcribe key informant interviews with congregate living facility managers, public health, and wastewater program staff, and conduct qualitative thematic content analysis to identify key ideas and trends.• Prepare presentations and manuscripts summarizing the key findings and lessons learned from the qualitative and quantitative attribute evaluations to share with facility, public health, and provincial partners.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

• Design and conduct population health assessments and surveillance using data from a variety of sources, including CCM, iPHIS, ACES, NACRS, DAD, COVax, and Panorama, for the purpose of supporting health unit planning and evaluation activities, identifying program priorities, gaps, and opportunities for epidemiological support, and informing evidence-based decision making. • Provide epidemiological support to the Infectious Disease Prevention department, including leading all COVID-19 and diseases of public health significance surveillance. This involves monitoring and reporting on local and provincial trends; calculating population-level health indicators; preparing reports and drafting recommendations to inform local policy, guidance, and risk communication; and contributing to epidemiological investigations, including investigating outbreaks, creating contact trees and epidemic curves, and writing outbreak summary reports.• Provide epidemiological support to the Environmental Health department, including supporting mosquito and vector-borne disease surveillance; analyzing and reporting on public health inspection data; and leading climate change and health surveillance and reporting, for example on the health effects of poor air quality and extreme temperatures.• Lead all local data reporting, including the design, creation, and maintenance of a series of public-facing interactive health dashboards, which present local data on health-related topics such as diseases of public health significance, mortality, hospitalizations and ED visits, school immunization coverage, substance use, cancer, and maternal and child health. This involves extracting and manipulating large datasets, cleaning and analyze the data in R, and developing dashboards using PowerBI. • Collaborate with the Medical Officer of Health and managers from across the health unit to respond to urgent public health needs as they arise.

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

• Conducted quantitative data analysis in SAS for various research projects using population-level administrative health databases, including the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), the Ontario Health Insurance Plan Claims Database (OHIP), and the Better Outcomes Registry and Network (BORN).• Consulted on study design, including assisting with the development of analytical procedures. • Contributed to scientific manuscripts on topics related to health services research, with a particular focus on rural and northern communities.

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Worked within the Epidemiology, Outcomes, and Evaluation Research department to contribute to health research projects, including consulting on study design and survey development and performing statistical analyses using SAS.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Conducted quantitative data analysis in Stata for various research projects using large-scale international datasets, such as the World Bank’s Health Equity and Final Protection database.• Conducted systematic literature reviews on topics related to global health, such as the effects of electricity on health, institutional births, and the use of routine health information systems in low and middle-income countries. • Prepared manuscripts for publication in academic journals on topics related to global health policy, and presented research findings at conferences.

London, Ontario, Canada

• Collaborated with school administrators, community partners, municipal staff, and fellow graduate students to implement and evaluate school-based health interventions across Middlesex county, including the Healthy Kids Community Challenge, the Ontario Student Nutrition Program, and the Active and Safe Routes to School program. • Conducted primary data collection, data entry, quantitative data analysis, and data synthesis for these school-based research projects, and disseminated the results, both in writing through scientific manuscripts and orally at conferences. • Conducted systematic literature reviews on topics related to children’s health, such as sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and school food programs.• Trained and supervised undergraduate volunteers and work study students, both during data collection in the field and in the lab.

Toronto, Canada Area

Assisted with a wide variety of tasks and projects intended to promote heritage conversation in the West Toronto Junction neighbourhood of Toronto, including inputting archival materials into the society's digital collection, contributing to the design of historical displays for community events, photographing heritage buildings in the West Toronto Junction's BIA, researching and reporting on various historical buildings at-risk for redevelopment in the West Toronto Junction's BIA, and researching, writing, and designing short booklets on several topics pertaining to the history of the West Toronto Junction.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Epidemiology And Biostatistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Human Geography And Health Studies