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Kate Tsiplova

Statistician
Population Health Research Institute

Kate Tsiplova is a statistician with the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Canada, and has also worked in the field of economic evaluation with Wendy Ungar at the Technology Assessment at Sick Kids in Toronto, Canada.

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