Boris Sobolev

Boris is a Senior Scientist at C2E2 and Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health. From 2003-2013, he held a Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Modeling for Health Care. In 2018-2021, he held a Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. His research examines access to healthcare, treatments received, and patient outcomes. Boris co-authored two Springer books: Analysis of Waiting-Time Data In Health Services Research and Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation.  His research interests include causal attribution in health services research, methodology for analysis of waiting times, risk of adverse events while awaiting medical services, and the use of simulation experiments in policy evaluation. He teaches Causal Inference in Public Health Sciences, an advanced course developing competency in causal inference methodology. In this YouTube course, Prof. Sobolev discusses causal inference.

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