Hélène Carabin

Dr. Carabin is a DVM and PhD trained in veterinary and human epidemiology and in health economics. Her work primarily focuses on using state-of-the-art epidemiological methods and Bayesian statistics to measure associations, while adjusting for bias, between animal, human and environmental factors and zoonotic infections such as Shistosoma japonicum and cysticercosis. She is also involved on research to develop serological markers for neurocysticercosis. Dr. Carabin highly contributed to the inclusion of neurocysticercosis and cystic echinococcosis in the Global Burden of Disease estimates. She is the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and One Health at the Faculty of veterinary medicine and the School of Public health at the Université de Montréal since September 2018.