Dr. Maria Ospina


Associate Professor

Queen's University

Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)

Dr. Ospina is an associate professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, a clinical epidemiologist, and population health researcher and former Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Life Course, Social Environments, and Health. Her research program uses a life course approach, epidemiological methods, mixed-methods, and knowledge synthesis to assess how social and environmental factors during critical periods of human development such as pregnancy, the perinatal period ,and early childhood influence future health.


Area of Research Expertise
Perinatal; Pregnancy; DOHaD; Epidemiology; Systematic reviews-meta-analysis

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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