Yiqing Xia (Junior Data Scientist – Epidemiologist) 
Yiqing worked with the lab as a Data Science Specialist – Epidemiologist during 2020-2021, before starting her PhD training at McGill University in September 2021.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and a Master of Science degree in Public Health. Prior to joining MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in August 2020, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University for 1.5 years. She has 6 years of research experience in the area of infectious diseases, and 1.5 years of experience in HIV transmission modeling.
She led multiple projects related to COVID-19, including studying factors driving the observed differences in the trajectory of the sub-epidemics within and between provinces, hospital capacity projections, and estimating the effective reproduction number.
Yiqing publications with the team include:
- Milwid RM, Xia Y, Doyle CM, Cox J, Lambert G, Thomas R, Mishra S, Grace D, Lachowsky NJ, Hart TA, Boily MC, Maheu-Giroux M. (2022). Past dynamics of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in Montréal, Canada: a mathematical modeling study. BMC Infect Dis, 22(1), 233. doi: 10.1186/s12879-022-07207-7
- Xia Y, Ma H, Moloney G, García HAV, Sirski M, Janjua N, Vickers D, Williamson T, Katz A, Yu K, Kustra R, Buckeridge D, Brisson M, Baral S, Mishra S, Maheu-Giroux M. (2022). Geographic concentration of SARS-CoV-2 cases by social determinants of health in metropolitan areas in Canada: a cross-sectional study. CMAJ, 194 (6), 195-204. doi: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.211249
- Xia Y.*, Godin A.* [*co-first author], Buckeridge DL., Mishra S., … Brisson M., Maheu-Giroux M. The role of case importation in explaining differences in early SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in Canada – a mathematical modeling study of surveillance data. (* Godin A and Xia Y. contributed equally to the work). IJID. Volume 102. Pages 254-259. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.046.
- Mishra S, Ma H, Moloney G, Yiu K.C.Y, Darvin D, Landsman D, Kwong J.C., Calzavara A, Straus S, Chan A.K., Gournis E, Rilkoff H, Xia Y, Katz A, Williamson T, Malikov K, Kustra R, Maheu-Giroux M, Sander S, Baral S. (2021). Increasing concentration of COVID-19 by socioeconomic determinants and geography in Toronto, Canada: an observational study. Ann Epidemiol. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.07.007.
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