Dr. Victoria Landsman
Dr. Victoria Landsman is a scientist and biostatistician at the Institute for Work & Health. She also holds an appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Landsman has a PhD in statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She began focusing on biostatistics during a post-doctoral fellowship at the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, where she applied statistical knowledge to the analysis of health data in cancer epidemiology.
Following the fellowship, Landsman moved to Toronto where she worked as a research biostatistician at the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. In early 2016, she joined the Institute for Work & Health's scientific staff, where she brings her statistical expertise in causal inference, survey sampling and analysis of large-scale population-based linked data.
“With a bachelor degree in math, I decided to go into statistics for my graduate studies because it opened up opportunities to apply math to real-life problems. Later, during a post-doctoral fellowship at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, I realized that biostatistics was what I am truly passionate about. It's rewarding to contribute statistical knowledge to a research team that is making an important difference to people’s lives and health.” – Dr. Victoria Landsman
Projects
- Improving information on the incidence of work-related injuries and illnesses in Ontario. Funded by Ontario Ministry of Labour Research Opportunities Program . Ongoing.
- Occupational health and safety performance in Ontario's unionized construction sector. Funded by Ontario Construction Secretariat. Ongoing.
- Evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of Ontario’s working-at-heights training standard. Funded by Ontario Ministry of Labour. Completed.
- Evaluating an internal responsibility system audit tool for Ontario’s mining sector. Funded by Ontario Ministry of Labour. Completed.
Publications
- Landsman V, Landsman D, Li CS, Bang H. Overdispersion models for correlated multinomial data: applications to blinding assessment. Statistics in Medicine. 2019;38(25):4963-4976. doi:10.1002/sim.8344.
- Mustard C, Tompa E, Landsman V, Lay M. What do employers spend to protect the health of workers?. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. 2019;45(3):308-311. doi:10.5271/sjweh.3778.
- Weis CA, Baas E, Ciesla K, Kimpinski C, Landsman V. Ontario chiropractor's knowledge of exercise guidelines for pregnant patients. Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association. 2019;63(1):5-17. doi:.
- Weis CA, Barrett J, Tavares P, Draper C, Ngo K, Leung J, Huynh T, Landsman V. Prevalence of low back pain, pelvic girdle pain, and combination pain in a pregnant Ontario population. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 2018;40(7):1038-1043. doi:10.1016/j.jogc.2017.10.032.
- Landsman V, Fillery M, Vernon H, Bang H. Sample size calculations for blinding assessment. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. 2018;28(5):857-869. doi:10.1080/10543406.2017.1399898.
Interviews and articles
- IWH Updates. At Work: Institute for Work & Health; No. 83, Winter 2016.