David Champredon
Research Scientist at Public Health Agency of Canada | Agence de la santé publique du Canada
Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Champredon is a research scientist and founder with 11 years of experience applying quantitative methods to infectious disease forecasting, currently working at the Public Health Agency of Canada and affiliated with York and McMaster Universities. He combines a PhD in Infectious Diseases Modelling with a strong applied-maths and probability background from Pierre and Marie Curie University, bringing prior experience in capital markets as a structurer and quant. As founder of EpiForecast Inc. he translated academic models into operational epidemic-forecasting services for Canadian public health decision-making. David’s work sits at the intersection of public health and mathematical modelling, balancing rigorous theory with real-world surveillance needs. His career path — moving from finance to academic postdocs and into public health practice — gives him an unusual fluency in both stochastic modelling and stakeholder-driven implementation.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Infectious Diseases Modelling, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Infectious Diseases Modelling at McMaster UniversityDiplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), Probability applied to Finance (Prof. El Karoui), Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), Probability applied to Finance (Prof. El Karoui) at Pierre and Marie Curie University
English, French, Spanish, Gujarati
Github Skills (27)
r-library9
r7
distributions7
vocabulary7
data-model5
r-package5
environmental5
metadata4
data-dictionary4
dictionary4
data-import4
estimate4
health4
naming-conventions4
api3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidchampredon/stiagent
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 220 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
model-basedagent-basedagentagent-based-modelinfections
davidchampredon/GI
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
r-packagedistributionsrstatsintervalcalculate
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