COVID Mortality and Immunity: Public Health Event - March 25, 2025

Join Associate Director of Statistics Patrick Brown and Postdoctoral Fellow Xuyang Tang on Tuesday, March 25 for a conference on COVID Mortality and Immunity from a global perspective! The talk will feature aspects of the speakers’ Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) studies.

Professor Patrick Brown is a Biostatistician leading the geospatial research team at CGHR, as well as Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. His research interest combine statistical methods for spatial and spatio-temporal data, statistical computing and software for spatial modeling, and understanding spatial variation in the declining rate of mortality worldwide.

Xuyang Tang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global Health and Research. She completed her doctorate in Health Services Research, Policy & Administration at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2018. Her research examines the role of demographics and social determinants of health in behaviors and mortality.