Epidemiology · Causal inference · Environmental Global Health

Juwel Rana, MSS, MPH (Dual), PhD(c)

Advancing and applying epidemiologic methods to generate policy-relevant causal evidence on environmental mixtures and public health.

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada
Research & Innovation Division, South Asian Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST), Bangladesh

Juwel Rana is an epidemiologist and doctoral candidate at McGill University, Canada, specializing in causal inference and environmental epidemiology, with applied research in Canada, Bangladesh, and South Asia. He founded the South Asian Institute for Social Transformation (SAIST), Dhaka (2010), and leads its flagship the Bangladesh Longitudinal Child-Adolescent Development, Education, and Environment Study (BLADES) cohort (2021), involving ~2,500 households.

Research Areas

Causal Inference

G-computation, inverse probability weighting, and mediation analysis for policy-relevant causal questions in epidemiology.

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Environmental and Social Exposome

BKMR, WQS, and novel methods for multi-exposure chemical mixture effects on health outcomes.

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Environmental Global Health

Air pollution, chemical stressors, and their impacts on maternal–child health and non-communicable diseases.

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Policy Evaluation & Environmental Justice

Evaluating policies and programs with an environmental justice lens — equitable burdens and benefits of environmental risks — alongside applied work on childhood development, birth outcomes, and child mortality in low-resource South Asian settings.

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  • 60+ Peer-reviewed papers
  • 3 Institutional affiliations
  • 15+ Years of research
  • 10+ Countries of collaboration