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Charmaine Dean is the Vice-President, Research and Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. She holds leadership roles in research administration and academic governance, including previous service as Dean of Science at Western University and Associate Dean at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Dean earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Waterloo in 1988.
Her research focuses on biostatistics, environmental science, and spatio-temporal analysis, with applications to public health, wildfire management, and ecological modeling. Notable contributions include disease mapping, clinical trial design, and statistical methods for analyzing wildfire risk and forest ecology.
She has received prestigious awards such as the CRM-SSC Prize, Fellowships from leading statistical societies, and the L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques from France. Her service includes roles on advisory boards for institutions like the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Banff International Research Station.
Dr. Dean’s work bridges academic research and policy, with impactful contributions to environmental and public health policy through interdisciplinary collaborations. Her research group’s activities include developing statistical tools for environmental risk assessment and pandemic response.
