Tara Cooper-Dubé
PhD Student
University of Victoria
“Jamie offered me the opportunity to develop my research skills while she was finishing her PhD. She taught me how to conduct literature reviews and gave me the responsibility to clean data for a project she was working on, which gave me practical experience in the research process. She connected me to others at UVic and introduced me to Andrea Piccinin, who later became my Master's supervisor.”
Tara is driven to contribute evidence of social determinants of health in her work on the neighbourhood determinants of healthy aging. Currently, she is working towards developing her dissertation. While she develops the theoretical direction of her PhD, she is working in the Office of the Public Health Officer, in the epidemiology team, on developing case-finding algorithms for monitoring substance use disorder in the province.
Research assistant · 2022