Rate My Professor Laura Rosella

Laura C. Rosella is a Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and holds a cross-appointment as Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She serves as PhD Epidemiology Program Director and Division Head in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Rosella earned her HBSc, MHSc, and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on epidemiologic methods, population health analytics, social determinants of health, chronic disease prevention including diabetes and obesity, premature mortality, multimorbidity, and the application of artificial intelligence to public health. She is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Population Health Analytics Lab and holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. Rosella is also Education Lead at the U of T Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine, Associate Director of Education at the Data Sciences Institute, Adjunct Scientist and Site Director at ICES U of T, and holds additional affiliations including the Stephen Family Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners. Her career includes numerous leadership roles in population health research and policy. She has received awards including Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2018, the Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiologist Award in 2017, membership in the Royal Society of Canada College in 2021, the CP Shah Award for Excellence in Public Health in 2022, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Supervision and Mentorship Award in 2023. Rosella has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, including the development and validation of the Diabetes Population Risk Tool (DPoRT) and studies on high-resource users of health care systems, life satisfaction and health outcomes, and machine learning applications for predicting diabetes complications and health care utilization. She contributes to public health policy through data-driven tools and has led major grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other agencies focused on improving health system planning and equity.