Nicholas Grubic is a PhD Candidate in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the #PopHealthLab, University of Fribourg. He holds an MSc in Epidemiology, a BScH in Life Sciences, and a Certificate in Business from Queen’s University. Nicholas’s research focuses on cardiovascular epidemiology, chronic disease prevention, sports medicine, causal inference, and the social determinants of health. His work has resulted in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals such as The British Medical Journal, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and British Journal of Sports Medicine. He is a member of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Trainee Committee and the Heart & Stroke Young Leaders Committee, and serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology and CJC Open. At the #PopHealthLab, Nicholas’ current project applies causal decomposition methods to assess how reducing unhealthy movement behaviours during adolescence might mitigate socioeconomic inequalities in adult cardiovascular disease risk.

Cardiovascular, health inequalities, prevention, life course, causal inference

ORCID: 0000-0002-6915-7669

Email: nicholas.grubic@unifr.ch