David McDonald, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Rare events
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$64,000
Globalization, Urbanization and the Social Determinants of Health: Pathways and Solutions
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
$15,000
Privacy preserving methods for sharing longitudinal electronic health records
CIHR · 2009 · Co-investigator
$150,000

All 13 grants and awards

No publications available.

Rare events

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: McDonald, David

$64,000

Globalization, Urbanization and the Social Determinants of Health: Pathways and Solutions

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity - LOI

Principal investigators: Labonté, Ronald

Keywords: Comprehensive Primary Health Care; Food Security; Global Health; Globalization; Health And Foreign Policy; Human Rights; Social Determinants Of Health; Urban Health; Urbanization; Water And Sanitation

$15,000

Privacy preserving methods for sharing longitudinal electronic health records

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Operating Grant - Priority Announcement: Ethics

Principal investigators: El Emam, Khaled; Tu, Karen

Keywords: De-Identification; Privacy; Secondary Use; Surveillance

$150,000

Statistical laboratory

Principal investigatorNSERC2009Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: McDonald, David

$27,834

Performance of queueing networks

Principal investigatorNSERC2006Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: McDonald, David

$115,000

Linux statistical research facility

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dabrowski, André

$63,940

Linux statistical laboratory

Co-investigatorNSERC2002Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dabrowski, André

$35,635

Rare events in telecommunication networks

Principal investigatorNSERC2001Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: McDonald, David

$115,000

Computing facility for research in probability and statistics

Co-investigatorNSERC1999Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dabrowski, André

$25,299

Rare events for queueing networks

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: McDonald, David

$108,200

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor McDonald, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]