Laura Schummers

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Dr. Schummers is a reproductive epidemiologist and health policy researcher and Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She completed her doctorate in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2018 and her postdoctoral fellowship with the Contraception and Abortion Research Team in the Department of Family Practice at UBC in 2021.

Dr. Schummers conducts epidemiologic and health policy research to determine impacts of policy and practice on reproductive population health outcomes and collaborates closely with clinicians, policymakers, and patients to directly evaluate and inform improvements to policy and practice. Her research primarily uses linked population-based healthcare administrative data and draws heavily on causal inference methods. Her program of research is centered on evaluating impacts of reproductive health policy and practice changes on health services access and population health outcomes. She couples this applied work with related methodological work to improve the rigor of epidemiological and health policy research and surveillance using health administrative data.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Assistant Professor , Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
  • 2023–present
    Investigator, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
  • 2018–2022
    Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia
  • 2018–2020
    CIHR Health System Impact Fello, University of British Columbia & British Columbia Ministry of Health

Education

  • 2018 
    Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Doctorate of Science, Epidemiology
  • 2014 
    Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Masters of Sciences, Epidemiology

Honours

Killam Laureate, CUFA BC Distinguished Academic

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