Personal information

Activities

Collapse all

Employment (8)

University of Calgary: Calgary, CA

2024-09-01 to present | CANSSI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Calgary: Calgary, CA

2024-09-01 to 2024-10-15 | Course Instructor for DATA 602 Statistical Data Analysis (Department of Mathematics and Statistics)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

McGill University: Montreal, CA

2023-09 to 2023-12 | Course Instructor for EPIB 507 Biostats for Health Sciences (Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA

2022-01 to 2022-04 | Course Instructor EPIB-521 Regression Analysis for Health Sciences (Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA

2021-05 to 2021-06 | TA EPIB-507 Biostats for Health Sciences (Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA

2020-09-01 to 2020-12-20 | TA EPIB-607 Inferential Statistics (Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Washington: Seattle, WA, US

2017-08-15 to 2018-08-15 | Data Specialist (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Washington: Seattle, WA, US

2016-08-15 to 2017-08-15 | Data Analyst (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Education and qualifications (4)

McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA

2019-06-01 to 2024-07-26 | PhD Biostatistics Thesis (Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

McGill University: Montreal, Quebec, CA

2018-09-01 to 2019-06-01 | Masters of Science Biostatistics Thesis (fast tracked to PhD) (Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, CA

2012-09-01 to 2016-06-01 | Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinctions: Mathematical Applications in Economics and Finance (Faculty of Arts and Science)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Victoria: Victoria, BC, CA

2011-09-01 to 2012-06-01
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Professional activities (5)

Junior Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (j-ISBA): Durham, NC, US

2022-06 | BAYSM 2022 Montreal j-ISBA Best Poster Award
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Statistical Society of Canada: Ottawa, ON, CA

2021-06 | SSC Special COVID-19 Student Case Study Competition, First Prize (1,000$)
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Statistical Society of Canada: Ottawa, ON, CA

2020-06 | SSC 2020 Competition: The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) Award ($750)
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, CA

2015 | Dean's List Scholar 2015 Winter
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, CA

2014 | Dean's List Scholar 2014 Winter
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Funding (3)

CANSSI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship “Behavioural Change Mechanisms in Complex Epidemic Models”

2024-09 to 2026-09 | Award
Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (Burnaby, CA)
URL: https://canssi.ca/story/cdpf-2024-dirk-douwes-schultz/
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Coupled Markov Switching Count Models for Spatio-temporal Infectious Disease Counts

2021-09 to 2024-09 | Award
IVADO (Montreal, CA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Spatio-temporal Analysis of Infectious Diseases

2020-09 to 2021-08 | Award
McGill University (Montreal, QC, CA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Works (22)

A three-state coupled Markov switching model for COVID-19 outbreaks across Quebec based on hospital admissions

The Annals of Applied Statistics (In press)
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Dirk Douwes-Schultz; Alexandra M. Schmidt; Yannan Shen; David Buckeridge
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Zika emergence, persistence, and transmission rate in Colombia: a nationwide application of a space-time Markov switching model

Scientific Reports
2024-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59976-7
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Laís Picinini Freitas; Dirk Douwes-Schultz; Alexandra M. Schmidt; Brayan Ávila Monsalve; Jorge Emilio Salazar Flórez; César García-Balaguera; Berta N. Restrepo; Gloria I. Jaramillo-Ramirez; Mabel Carabali; Kate Zinszer
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

A Comparison between Markov Switching Zero-inflated and Hurdle Models for Spatio-temporal Infectious Disease Counts

2023 | Preprint
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2309.04594
Contributors: Mingchi Xu; Dirk Douwes-Schultz; Alexandra M. Schmidt
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

A three-state coupled Markov switching model for COVID-19 outbreaks across Quebec based on hospital admissions

2023 | Preprint
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2302.02488
Contributors: Dirk Douwes-Schultz; Alexandra M. Schmidt; Yannan Shen; David Buckeridge
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Zika epidemic in Colombia and environmental and sociodemographic contributors: an application of a space-time Markov switching model

2023-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.01.23292093
PPR: PPR687137
Contributors: Freitas LP; Douwes-Schultz D; Schmidt AM; Monsalve BÁ; Salazar Flórez JE; García-Balaguera C; Restrepo BN; Jaramillo-Ramirez GI; Carabali M; Zinszer K
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz via Europe PubMed Central

Extended Bayesian endemic–epidemic models to incorporate mobility data into COVID‐19 forecasting

Canadian Journal of Statistics
2022-07-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.11723
Part of ISSN: 0319-5724
Part of ISSN: 1708-945X
Contributors: Dirk Douwes-Schultz
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Zero‐state coupled Markov switching count models for spatio‐temporal infectious disease spread

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
2022-03-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12547
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz
grade
Preferred source (of 2)‎

The role of case importation in explaining differences in early SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in Canada—A mathematical modeling study of surveillance data

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.046
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz
grade
Preferred source (of 2)‎

Zero-state Coupled Markov Switching Count Models for Spatio-temporal Infectious Disease Spread

2021-02-03 | Preprint
ARXIV: arXiv:2102.02334v2
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Importation of SARS-CoV-2 following the" semaine de rel̂ache" and Québec's (Canada) COVID-19 burden-a mathematical modeling study

medRxiv
2020 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980--2017, and forecasts to 2030, for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017

The lancet HIV
2019 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980--2017, and forecasts to 2030, for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017

https://doi. org/10.1016/S2352-3018 (19) 30196-1
2019 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017

Nature
2019 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Erratum: Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950--2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (The Lancet (2018) 392 (10159)(1684--1735),(S0140673618318919),(10.1016/S0140-6736 (18) 31891-9))

The Lancet
2018 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016--40 for 195 countries and territories

The Lancet
2018 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950--2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

The lancet
2018 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980--2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

The Lancet
2018 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

The lancet
2018 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980--2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

The Lancet
2017 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990--2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

The Lancet
2017 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970--2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

The Lancet
2017 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz

A three-state coupled Markov switching model for COVID-19 outbreaks across Quebec based on hospital admissions

The Annals of Applied Statistics (In press)
Journal article
Contributors: Dirk Douwes-Schultz
Source: Self-asserted source
Dirk Douwes-Schultz
How many people are using ORCID?