Yixiu Liu

Yixiu Liu

PhD candidate in biostatistics at the University of Manitoba | Biostatistician in the Cardiac Sciences Manitoba

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projects

Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Research assistant, Under the supervision of Dr. Ruth Barclay and Dr. Sandra Webber, College of Rehabilitaion Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2020

Purposes

The purposes of this project are using the data from the CLSA to: 1) validate a model for community ambulation that was developed for stroke patients (Barclay et al. (2014)), 2) develop a model for mobility based on a conceptual framework (Webber et al. (2010)) for people aged 65+ and people with arthritis on knees or hips, respectively. In addition, measurement invariance was tested for age and sex.

Getting Older adults OUTdoors (GO-OUT)

Research assistant/data analyst, Under the supervision of Dr. Ruth Barclay, College of Rehabilitaion Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2021

Purposes

The purposes of this project are using the data from the GOOUT to: a) develop a model adapted from the conceptual framework of the GOOUT intervention (Salbach et al. (2019)), b) explore the complex relationship among individual characteristics and environmental characteristics and outdoor walking in older adults with outdoor walking difficulties.

serviceVolunteer

Co-founder of Data Science Trainee Development Council (DS-TDC)

May 2020 – Sep 2022, Centre of Healthcare Innovation (CHI), University of Manitoba

This council was built by Naomi Hamm, Marcello Nesca and Yixiu Liu with support from the CHI leadership since May 2020. Our role is to be a connection between CHI leadership and trainees (graduate students & postdocs) to help them better adapt to graduate life, develop professional skills and get prepared before entering the workforce, as well as improve trainees’ experience working/studying at CHI through organizing events and workshops.

2022 VADA Summer School Planning Committee

Sep 2021 - July 2022, The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Graduate Training Program, George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba

More details about the VADA program can be find here

The 2023 Canadian Youth Delegate Advisor Committee for the WHA/PAHO-DC

Led by, the 2023 Candadian Youth Delegate

Yixiu Liu isserved on the advisor committee for the 2023 Canadian Youth Delegate. The mandate was to advise and work closely with the delegate to engage youth in roundtable discussion(s) and the formulation of recommendations for Canada’s position on global health policies/priorities related to pandemic preparedness/response. My primary focus was in the data science field. More information about the 2023 Canadian Youth Delegate Toby Le can be found here and more informaiton on the program can be found here.

talks

teaching

Teaching Assistant

2018 Fall – 2022 Fall, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, 2022

Being the TA for the graduate course - CHSC 7820 Biostatistics for Community Health Sciences, in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Univeristy of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Instructor

2023 Summer, George & Fay Yee Centre for Health Innovation (CHI), Manitoba, 2023

Lead a series of R workshops: R for Absolute Beginners, R for Data Wrangling, R for Basic Stats, and R for Data Visualization.

work

Junior Epidemiologist

Apr 2018 – Feb 2020, Information Management & Analytics, Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living, 2018

Yixiu worked as a junior epidemiologist under the supervision of Dr. Joy Wei and Dr. Carla Loeppky.