Biography

Dr. Rosane Nisenbaum is a Biostatistician at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions and Applied Health Research Centre with expertise in designing and analyzing intervention studies to improve health and housing outcomes for adults and youth experiencing homelessness, and population studies to identify individual and neighbourhood effects on health outcomes. She has special interest in the application of multilevel models, longitudinal and categorical data analysis, multiple imputation, and matching and weighting methods. She is also a co-investigator and collaborator in interdisciplinary projects initiated by other Unity Health Toronto scientists, residents, fellows and graduate students, and co-authored publications in the areas of Hematology, Infectious Disease, Cardiology, Neurology, Oncology, and Pediatrics. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where she co-teaches the course ‘Laboratory in Statistical Design & Analysis’, serves as a practicum supervisor and thesis committee member.

Recent Publications

  1. Richard, L, Carter, B, Nisenbaum, R, Liu, M, Hwang, SW. Corrigendum to 'Identification of homelessness using health administrative data in Ontario, Canada following a national coding mandate: a validation study' [Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 172 (2024) 111430]. J Clin Epidemiol. 2025;177 :111615. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111615. PubMed PMID:39668000 .
  2. Angjeli, A, Montada-Atin, T, Nisenbaum, R, Dacouris, N, Nash, M, Prasad, GVR et al.. Single Center Experience With Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter-2 Inhibitors (SGLT2i) in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Diabetes. Can J Kidney Health Dis. 2024;11 :20543581241293202. doi: 10.1177/20543581241293202. PubMed PMID:39534785 PubMed Central PMC11555736.
  3. Richard, L, Carter, B, Nisenbaum, R, Brown, M, Gabriel, M, Stewart, S et al.. Disparities in healthcare costs of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada in the post COVID-19 pandemic era: a matched cohort study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024;24 (1):1074. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11501-2. PubMed PMID:39313822 PubMed Central PMC11421185.
  4. Alessandrini, J, Cox, J, de Pokomandy, A, Hart, TA, Grace, D, Grennan, T et al.. Prevalence of Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection Among Urban Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men in Canada, 2017-2019. J Infect Dis. 2024;230 (5):e1039-e1048. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae345. PubMed PMID:39041706 PubMed Central PMC11566233.
  5. Richard, L, Carter, B, Nisenbaum, R, Liu, M, Hwang, SW. Identification of homelessness using health administrative data in Ontario, Canada following a national coding mandate: a validation study. J Clin Epidemiol. 2024;172 :111430. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111430. PubMed PMID:38880439 .
  6. Gold-Bersani, D, Drennan, IR, McGowan, M, Nisenbaum, R, Nolan, B. Field trauma triage criteria associated with need for dedicated trauma center care: a single-center retrospective cohort study. CJEM. 2024;26 (7):499-506. doi: 10.1007/s43678-024-00722-3. PubMed PMID:38807018 .
  7. Freeman, SJ, Nisenbaum, R, Jegathesan, T, Sgro, MD. Healthcare visits for new neurodevelopmental problems before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatr Res. 2024;96 (5):1364-1368. doi: 10.1038/s41390-024-03279-0. PubMed PMID:38796534 .
  8. Wen, S, Nisenbaum, R, Weyand, AC, Tang, GH, Auerbach, M, Sholzberg, M et al.. High prevalence of iron deficiency and socioeconomic disparities in laboratory screening of non-pregnant females of reproductive age: A retrospective cohort study. Am J Hematol. 2024;99 (8):1492-1499. doi: 10.1002/ajh.27352. PubMed PMID:38695834 .
  9. Richard, L, Nisenbaum, R, Colwill, K, Mishra, S, Dayam, RM, Liu, M et al.. Enhancing detection of SARS-CoV-2 re-infections using longitudinal sero-monitoring: demonstration of a methodology in a cohort of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada. BMC Infect Dis. 2024;24 (1):125. doi: 10.1186/s12879-024-09013-9. PubMed PMID:38302878 PubMed Central PMC10835952.
  10. Ho, JW, Bellicoso, E, Bondy, M, Holness, DL, Muntaner, C, Nisenbaum, R et al.. A Brief Tool to Screen Patients for Precarious Employment: A Validation Study. Ann Fam Med. 2024;22 (1):26-30. doi: 10.1370/afm.3053. PubMed PMID:38253490 PubMed Central PMC11233073.
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Affiliations & Other Activities

  • Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto