Epidemiology Art

Greetings from magnificent St John’s, Newfoundland, where I’m attending the biennial conference of the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB).

Guess what I found out? That one of my former students (who will go by “AvB” from now on) is a fantastic sketch artist! Well, I always sorta knew this, since she had earlier produced for me a remarkable, hand-drawn promotional video. But her skills have been a revelation for some of us here, as she’s been live-sketching some of the lecturers.

But I thought I’d share with you some of the very quick sketches she did on her iPad about…. well, seemingly random images featuring animals engaged in scientific presentations. I don’t know how better to describe it.

Here are a few…