Lawrence McCandless
Professor Director, MSc & PhD Programs
Lawrence McCandless
Professor, Director, MSc & PhD Programs
- lmccandl@sfu.ca
- 1 778 782-8651
- BLU 11520
Areas of interest
Biostatistics, epidemiology and environmental health
Education
- MSc, Statistics, University of British Columbia
- Ph.D., Statistics, University of British Columbia
- Postdoctoral Research, Imperial College London
Biography
Lawrence McCandless is a professor with tenure in the Faculty of Health Sciences at 51社区黑料and an associate member of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences. He completed a PhD in statistics at the University of British Columbia with Paul Gustafson and Peter Austin. Then he did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, with Sylvia Richardson and Nicky Best.
Research interests
Lawrence McCandless is an accomplished scholar in the field of epidemiology and biostatistics. His research focuses on the fields of environmental epidemiology, child health research and mental health. He is the principal investigator on a CIHR grant investigating the effect of environmental in utero exposures (e.g. pesticides and heavy metals) on adverse pregnancy outcomes. Dr. McCandless's methodological expertise lies in the area of epidemiological data analysis and Bayesian statistics. He collaborates extensively both nationally and internationally. In addition to his position a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. McCandless is also an associate member of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences at SFU.
Teaching interests
Dr. McCandless is passionate about teaching and training students in quantitative methods. He teaches courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, and scientific computing using the R programming language. He is the primary instructor for HSCI805 Intermediate Epidemiology, and HSCI410 Exploratory Data Analysis. He mentors a team of MSc, MPH and PhD students who are supported by operating grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
Courses
Summer 2025
Fall 2025
- HSCI 410 D100 Exploratory Data Analysis
- HSCI 801 G100 Biostatistics for Population Health Practice I
- HSCI 886 G100 MSc Thesis Proposal
- HSCI 886 G200 MSc Thesis Proposal
- HSCI 887 G100 MSc Thesis
- HSCI 887 G200 MSc Thesis
- HSCI 983 G100 Comprehensive Exam and Thesis Proposal
- HSCI 983 G200 Comprehensive Exam and Thesis Proposal
- HSCI 990 G100 PhD Thesis
- HSCI 990 G200 PhD Thesis
Future courses may be subject to change.
Publications and activities
Available on his .