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Dr.
Assistant professor
Institute of Population Health

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1852)
E-mail: kbrand@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

I specialize in methods for risk assessment and risk management, with a particular focus upon human health risks. I am particularly interested in the science policy interface that mediates between the synthesis of facts and the formulation of policy defining conclusions. Methods of particular interest include uncertainty analysis, applied decision analysis, demography, and health economics. I have applied these types of tools in the context of interpreting animal bioassay evidence in the support of regulatory determinations of chemical safety, and am currently applying demography approaches to the study of summary measures of population health (such as DALYs, QALYs, PEYLLs and alike).

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Applied statistics
• Decision analysis
• Epidemiology
• Health economics
• Health research
• Operations research
• Population health
• Toxicology

Language preference:

English only

Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Criminology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1801)
Home: 613-722-3980
E-mail: Ronald-Frans.Melchers@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

Home Telephone

Research information:

I'm currently examining the role and treatment of information in public policy and operations in criminal justice: statistics, databases, registries, administrative operational data, research results etc. This information arises and is used as evidence in investigations and decisions of a wide range of police, judicial and correctional institutions. I am particulary interested in the validity and reliability of information and of procedures for its use, as well as implications for rights to privacy.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Aboriginal criminality
• Aboriginal legal issues
• Applied statistics
• Community policing
• Courts
• Crime
• Crime in Canada
• Crime prevention
• Criminal law
• Data mining
• Data security
• Evaluation
• Justice
• Knowledge bases
• Logic
• National policy
• Not-for-profit organizations
• Numerical methods
• Ontario politics
• Performance measurement
• Performance measures
• Police
• Poverty
• Privatization
• Public administration
• Research methods
• Sentencing
• Social change
• Social politics
• Social services
• Statistics
• Statistics
• Statistics
• Urban renewal
• Work

Language preference:

English and French , néerlandais / Dutch