The Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University
Curriculum Vitae
Date Prepared: | October 1, 2024 |
Name: | Christopher Andrew Basham |
Office: | 1620 Tremont Street Unit 3030 Boston, MA 02120 |
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Education:
09/2017-10/2021 | PhD | Population and Public Health | University of British Columbia |
09/2010-02/2016 | MSc | Community Health Sciences | University of Manitoba |
09/2004-05/2008 | BA | Environmental/Urban Studies | University of Winnipeg |
Postdoctoral Training:
03/2022-06/2024 | Research Fellow | Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics | Harvard Medical School |
Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions:
03/2022–06/2024 | Research Fellow | Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Other Professional Positions:
Year(s) | Position | Department | Institution |
2008-2010 | Health Policy Analyst | Health Department | Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak |
2012 | Research Assistant | Department of Emergency Medicine | University of Manitoba |
2012-2013 | Statistical Analyst | First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey | Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs |
2013 | Program Specialist | Aboriginal Health Programs | Winnipeg Regional Health Authority |
2014-2015 | Research Assistant | Centre for Aboriginal Health Research | University of Manitoba |
2015 | Research Consultant | Health Department | Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak |
2015-2017 | Data Analyst | Manitoba Centre for Health Policy | University of Manitoba |
2017-2021 | Graduate Research Assistant | Tuberculosis Program | British Columbia Centre for Disease Control |
2018 | Teaching Assistant | School of Population and Public Health | University of British Columbia |
2019 | Graduate Research Assistant | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | University of British Columbia |
2020-2021 | Graduate Research Assistant | Canadian Disability Participation Project | University of British Columbia |
2021-2022 | Evidence Reviewer | McGill International TB Centre | McGill University |
2022- | Statistical Consultant | Faculty of Health Sciences | Simon Fraser University |
Committee Service:
Local
2022-2024 | Lead, Pharmacoequity Team | Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
2023-2024 | Member, Department of Medicine’s Health Equity Innovation Pilot Program Learning Community. | Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
National
2015-2016 | Judge, National Student Conference | Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
International
2018-2023 | Member, TB and Mental Health Working Group | International Union Against TB and Lung Disease |
2022-2024 | Member, Abstract Committee | International Union Against TB and Lung Disease-North America Region |
2021-2023 | Chair, Global Indigenous Stop TB Initiative | International Union Against TB and Lung Disease |
2023-2024 | Member, Health Equity Special Interest Group | International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology |
2022-2024 | Member, Abstract Committee | International Union Against TB and Lung Disease-North America Region |
2024 | Abstract reviewer, 40th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology | tInternational Society for Pharmacoepidemiology |
Professional Societies
2011-2012 | Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research |
2012-2016 | Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
2012- | International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease |
2023- | International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology |
Editorial Activities:
Ad hoc Reviewer
American Journal of Public Health; BMJ Open; Canadian Journal of Public Health (x4); Clinical Infectious Disease; Cochrane; Critical Public Health; Global Public Health; Injury Epidemiology (x2); Injury Prevention; International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (x2); Journal of General Internal Medicine (x2); Open Forum in Infectious Disease; PLoS One (x2); Postgraduate Medicine; Risk Management and Healthcare Policy; Tropical Medicine and International Health; Virology; Virulence.
Honors and Prizes:
2006 | Student of Distinction | University of Winnipeg | Grade point average |
2007 | Academic Proficiency Scholarship | University of Winnipeg | Grade point average |
2007 | Academic Proficiency Scholarship | University of Winnipeg | Grade point average |
2007 | United College Class of ’50 Reunion Scholarship | University of Winnipeg | Competitive |
2007 | Manitoba Millennium Scholarship | Province of Manitoba | Grade point average |
2007 | Student of Highest Distinction | University of Winnipeg | Grade point average |
2008 | Student of Distinction | University of Winnipeg | Grade point average |
2010 | Health Services and Policy Research Studentship | Western Regional Training Centre | Competitive |
2010 | Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research Fellowship. | Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba | Competitive |
2011-2012 | University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship | Manitoba Health Research Council. | Competitive |
2012 | Summer Program in Data Analysis Travel Award | York University | Competitive |
2012 | National Student Conference Travel Award | Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Competitive |
2012 | North America Region, 16th Annual Conference Travel Award | International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | Competitive |
2017-2018 | Graduate Student Initiative Award | UBC Faculty of Medicine | Competitive |
2021 | Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award | UBC President’s Office | Automatic |
2022 | Buffalo Blanket Ceremony | Communities Alliances and Networks | Board of Directors |
2023 | Research Staff Spotlight Award | Brigham Research Institute | Nomination |
2024 | Pillars of Excellence Award | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Competitive |
Report of Funded and Unfunded Projects
Current
10/2023-ongoing | Foundations for Pharmacoequity: missing and misclassified race and ethnicity data in linked Mass General Brigham electronic health record (EHR) and Medicaid/Medicare claims data. Funding: Brigham and Women's Hospital Health Equity Innovation Pilot HEIP-2023/24 ($40,000). Role: Research Lead. Aims: (1) investigate structural missingness of race and ethnicity in EHR and claims data, comparing missing vs non-missing in terms of sociodemographics, health conditions, healthcare utilization; (2) evaluate concordance of race and ethnicity in claims data compared with EHR data taking into account missingness; (3) thoroughly document race and ethnicity variables available in Medicare and Medicaid benefits and enrolment files and Mass General Brigham (MGB) EHR. |
10/2023-ongoing | Multilevel drug utilization trend analysis: a reproducible R and SAS tutorial. Funding: None. Role: Founder and Senior Author. Aims: (1) create a tutorial for pharmacoepidemiologists on multilevel / mixed effects negative binomial regression modeling of trends in pharmaceutical utilization using (often) publicly available aggregate count data at the state, hospital, prescriber, or other potential unit of analysis in which repeated measures of utilization are taken over time. For example, the count of people with incident use of a drug following, and population estimates that estimates trends for numerous aggregating units (e.g., states) that is reproducible with open source R code provided freely through a public GitHub repository; (2) develop a participatory workshop that can train, and (3) build an online learning community for mixed effect and multilevel modelling in pharmacoepidemiology. |
01/2021-ongoing (unfunded) | “Survivorship Epidemiology”. Funding: None. Aims: The purpose of survivorship epidemiology is to share knowledge and advance theory and methods across fields of medicine (critical care, oncology, and infectious disease) in which survivorship is studied quantitatively; creating a critical mass of epidemiologists across fields dedicated to methodological research for survivorship. I propose to mix causal inference quantitative theory and methods with the rich qualitative work done on survivorship within fields and to build bridges across fields to identify generalizable strategies, methods, and tools to address common problems such as comparator selection, decomposing the causal effects of critical illness in terms of physical illness effects, treatment effects, socioeconomic repercussions, and the psychological ramifications of surviving critical illnesses. |
Report of Local Teaching and Training
Local Invited presentations (last 3 years):
No presentations below were sponsored by 3rd parties/outside entities.
07/2021 | Towards survivorship epidemiology: a post-doctoral fellowship application / Oral Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
12/2022 | Trends and characteristics of tramadol utilization in the United States, 2004-2021 / Oral Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
03/2023 | Diseases as drugs: a target trial emulation framework for survivorship epidemiology? / Oral Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
05/2023 | Multiple-Bias Sensitivity Analysis using Bounds / Journal Club Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
10/2023 | Foundations for Pharmacoequity: Missing and misclassified race and ethnicity in linked electronic health records and Medicare and Medicaid claims data, 2000-2020 / Oral. Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
04/2024 | Race and ethnicity in causal diagrams of health disparities Health Equity Innovation Pilot (HEIP) Program Learning Community, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. |
05/2024 | Missing and discordant race and ethnicity variable values in linked MGB EHR–CMS claims data, 2015-2019: a descriptive investigation. Health Equity Innovation Pilot (HEIP) Program Learning Community, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. |
Report of Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and presentations
Those presentations below sponsored by outside entities are so noted and the sponsor(s) is (are) identified.
Regional
03/2021 | “All together now: aggregating multiple records to develop a person-based dataset to integrate and enhance infectious disease surveillance in Ontario, Canada” / Oral. Canadian Public Health Association Journal Club, Online. |
International
06/2011 | Tuberculosis Incidence in Six Canadian Provinces, 1996-2009: Ethnic-origin specific rate ratios and trends. Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Osong, South Korea, June 22, 2011 (Oral). |
03/2021 | “An overview of systematic reviews with a focus on depression” / Invited Presentation. In, World TB Day Webinar: Integrating TB and Mental Health Services to End the Epidemic. TB-Mental Health Working Group, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. https://youtu.be/eDH98iF-CBo?si=6Ly-mxjm9XxADTmc. |
08/2023 | Tramadol use in the United States, 2005-2021. / Selected Oral Abstract. 39th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, Halifax, Canada. [grant funding from AHRQ supported travel, accommodations, and registration]. |
Report of Teaching and Education Innovations
Causing Careers: a causal inference approach to planning education and training exposures aimed at achieving long-term work and life goals as mediated by real-world experiences. | Causing careers has three objectives: (1) educating trainees in causal inference, (2) formalizing career planning through causal inference framework terminology, applying epidemiological concepts with methodological tools such as DAGs, PICOs, 2x2 tables, and basic probability theory while introducing counterfactual reasoning within the potential outcomes framework, and (3) contributing to the epidemiology’s scant pedagogical research. A key implement for Causing Careers will be self-directed acyclic graphs (self-DAGs). Self-DAGs create immediate relevance for learning DAGs by focusing on each individuals career goals (long-term and intermediate positions as outcomes). By explicitly linking education and/or training exposures/interventions assumed to causative (necessarily or sufficiently) or at least contribute substantially) to realizing career outcomes. Potential confounding factors (time-varying or baseline with fixed effects or interactions with education exposure or third variable(s), as assumed with rationale provided by the trainee). These may affect both their education/training and career outcomes which can be discussed in terms of subject matter and in training students to understand differences between confounding, mediating, and other variables. Trainees that can identify potential confounding on their career and education pathways may devise approaches to “adjust” away or otherwise block all backdoor paths between education exposure and career outcome). Furthermore, baseline effect modification of the education/training can be included in text descriptions developed alongside the career causal graphs. Using publicly available Daggity.net software (https://dagitty.net/) trainees will draw these career DAGs or self-DAGs that identify their specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timebound (SMART) career goals (outcomes) and will describe educational interventions (exposures) to cause this goal. A starting exercise will be considering the Causing Career’s first goal of causal inference education, where we describe the concepts that define intended outcomes of the course. |
Report of Education of Patients and Service to the Community
Those presentations below sponsored by outside entities are so noted and the sponsor(s) is (are) identified.
Activities
Years | Role | Organization | Sponsor |
2004 | Candidate, Member of Parliament (Canada) | Green Party of Canada | Green Party of Canada |
2004-2006 | Policy and Platform Development Committee | Green Party of Canada | Volunteer |
2005-2006 | Secretary | Green Party of Manitoba | Volunteer |
2005-2006 | Membership Development Coordinator | Green Party of Manitoba | Volunteer |
2006-2007 | Board Member | Manitoba EcoNetwork, Inc. | Volunteer |
2007 | Candidate, Member of the Legislative Assembly (Manitoba) | Green Party of Manitoba | Green Party of Manitoba |
2006-2008 | Leader | Green Party of Manitoba | Volunteer |
2008 | National Delegate | 3rd Global Greens Congress | Green Party of Canada |
Educational Material for Patients the Lay Community:
03/2023 | TB or not TB? What’s Happening in the Body. | One Vision, Many Paths: Indigenous Solutions for Tuberculosis and HIV. | Communities Alliances and Networks. |
Recognition:
2004 | U of W goes greener as it looks to the future | Winnipeg Free Press |
2005 | The SunSet project | Alma Mater Society of UBC |
2006 | U of W student to lead Green Party | Winnipeg Free Press |
2007 | Greens promise ban on cosmetic pesticides | Winnipeg Free Press |
2022 | Global Indigenous Stop TB Initiative: A TB Scientific Section Working Group | International Union Against TB And Lung Disease |
2023 | Team of Brigham Investigators Receive Department of Medicine Health Equity Innovation Pilot Award | Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
Report of Scholarship
(ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0506-7936)
* denotes equal authorship contribution
** denotes mentored trainee.
Peer-Reviewed Scholarship in print or other media:
Research Investigations
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Non-peer reviewed scholarship in print or other media:
Letters to the Editor
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Abstracts, Poster presentations, and Exhibits at Professional Meetings (past 3 years, not yet published as peer-reviewed articles):
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