Health Data Research Alliance

Dr. Robert Platt is Associate Dean and Director of the School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. He is the Principal Investigator of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) and led the methods team for CNODES from 2011 to 2022. For nearly three decades, he has worked as an investigator at the Montreal Children’s Hospital Research Institute / Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Since 2011 he has also held an appointment at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. He is the Albert Boehringer I Chair and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. Dr. Platt holds a BSc in Mathematics from McGill, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Manitoba, and an MS and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington.

Dr. Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University, with expertise in aging, large population-based longitudinal research, and methods and systematic reviews. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Endowed Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging, and past holder of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Gero Science. He became a Member of Order of Canada in 2022 for his research in aging. He is the founding Scientific Director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, and The Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging. He is the Lead Principal Investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging including the Healthy Brains and Healthy Aging study.

Dr. Michael Schull served as the first Chair of the HDR Alliance in his role as CEO of ICES and Executive Lead, Partnerships at HDRN Canada. He is currently CEO of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Dr. Schull is a nationally recognized leader with a track record in digital transformation, building national and international research and data partnerships, and advancing organizational growth and sustainability. He is an Emergency Medicine Specialist, Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. He is past Co-director of the International Population Data Linkage Network. Dr. Schull holds a BA and MD from Queen’s University, and a MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University. He completed a Harkness Fellowship with the Commonwealth Fund in the United States and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.