Jemila Seid Hamid

Professor Jemila Hamid holds a PhD and MSc in mathematical statistics AND Statistics & Computer Science double major undergraduate training. She has worked in a collaborative interdisciplinary environment as a biostatistician for more than 10 years. Currently Dr. Hamid is a full professor at the department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa with cross appointment at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. Dr. Hamid also holds an affiliate investigator position at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) research institute. She conducts both methodological and applied research; and has published extensively both in statistics and medical journals. She has supervised several graduate students in Statistics, Biostatistics and Health Research Methodology as well as mentored several medical residents and clinical fellows. Her methodological research includes multivariate methods, methods for longitudinal data and growth curves, methods for interrupted time series analysis, methods for data integration, methods for analysis of high-dimensional data as well as meta-analysis and network meta-analysis. In her applied work, she has been working in wide-range of clinical applications requiring wide-range of statistical methods and computational algorithms.