Yixiu Liu

Yixiu Liu

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

Volunteer Services

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.

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

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.