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< Maria Melchior Marie-France Raynault >
Maria-Beatriz Ospina

Maria-Beatriz Ospina

ccUniversity of Alberta

Maria Ospina is a clinical epidemiologist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and Canada Research Chair in Life Course, Social Environments and Health.

Type of member: Regular (since 2020)

Telephone: 1-780-994-7379

Email Address: mospina@ualberta.ca

Website Address: https://dmetre.ca

Mailing Address: 220B Heritage Medical Research Centre Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2S2

Current research interests
Social determinants of health, pregnancy microbiome and child neurodevelopment
Life course approaches to early childhood health inequalities
Intergenerational influences of health inequalities

Research priorities
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty). Social into the biological and epigenetic. Intergenerational influences. | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies. Need to study social gradients as well as poverty. Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual. Regional studies (within countries).

profile updated: 08/10/2020

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