Dr. Finlay Maguire

Biography

Finlay Maguire's research aims to collaboratively apply data-driven methods to mitigate health and social crises. He focuses on main areas such as genomic epidemiology and infectious diseases through interdisciplinary health data science, collaborating with experts from medicine and social sciences. His work in genomic epidemiology involves creating novel microbial bioinformatics and machine learning approaches to understand the diagnosis, evolution, and dynamics of infectious diseases. This includes work with national and international public health consortia addressing problems related to antimicrobial resistance and the viral dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the broader field of health data science, he addresses varied data-related problems for socially and health-focused academics, non-governmental organizations, and public health groups. This includes efforts working with local shelters to identify provision gaps and collaborating with physicians to improve healthcare access for refugees. He actively supports the MicroResearch initiative, a multinational community-based program focused on building research capacity in the Global South and underserved Canadian communities. He holds a jointly-appointed position between the Faculty of Computer Science and the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University, along with an adjunct appointment in pathogenomics at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's Shared Hospital Laboratory.

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