Cross-appointments

George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI), Max Rady College of Medicine

Manitoba Centre for Nursing and Health Research (MCNHR), College of Nursing

Research summary

Dr. Rasheda Rabbani's research interests are focused on statistical methods for research synthesis in clinical trials and observational studies data, specializing in meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, and trial sequential analysis. She has collaborated and co-authored on several prestigious publications and has extensive experience providing statistical consultation and collaboration to researchers in various specialties. Her research has been conducted in several international institutes and universities, including Bangladesh.

Cross-appointments

  • George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI), Max Rady College of Medicine
  • Manitoba Centre for Nursing and Health Research (MCNHR), College of Nursing

Research interests

  • analysis of longitudinal / repeated measures patient-reported outcome data
  • meta-analysis
  • network meta-analysis specializing in synthesis projects of randomized control trials and observational studies data.
  • statistical methods on applied biostatistics
  • statistical methods on research design
  • trial sequential analysis

Keywords

  • epidemiology
  • meta-analysis
  • probability theories
  • statistics

Research groups

Biography

Dr. Rasheda Rabbani is an assistant professor in community health sciences at the Max Rady College of Medicine and a biostatistician with the Data Science Platform at the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI). Prior to joining the University of Manitoba, Dr. Rabbani served as a senior scientist and assistant professor at numerous international institutes and universities in Bangladesh.

With 28 years of experience providing statistical consultation and collaboration to researchers in various specialties, Dr. Rabbani is an expert in both basic and advanced statistical methodologies. Her research interests focus on meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, and trial sequential analysis, specializing in synthesis projects of clinical trials and observational studies data.

She has collaborated and co-authored on several prestigious publications, and currently offers lectures and workshops on meta-analysis in collaboration with the Knowledge Synthesis Platform at CHI.

Dr. Rabbani earned her PhD in agricultural economics from Iwate University, Japan in 2002, and has received various awards, including the Monbusho Scholarship from the Japanese Government.

Education

PhD in Agricultural Economics, Iwate University, Japan (2002)

Master of Science in Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh (1990)

Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh (1986)

Awards

Certificate on Indirect and Mixed Treatment Comparisons, University of Leicester (2017)

Cooperative Career Education (statistician) Certificate, York University (2003)

Monbusho Scholarship, Japanese Government scholarship, Japan, Iwate University (1997-2002)

Contact us

Community Health Sciences
Max Rady College of Medicine
Room S113 - 750 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 Canada

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