PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

David Buckeridge

David Buckeridge is a public health informatician whose work uses AI and data methods to study disease surveillance and population health. He joined a 2018 panel on ethical AI in public health, became an associate member of Mila in 2020, and worked with PHAC and WHO on AI analysis of coronavirus news. An October 2020 paper he coauthored studied privacy-aware predictions of individual infectiousness for contact tracing. His training includes an MD from Queen's University, an MSc in Epidemiology from Toronto, and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford; in September 2025 he was scheduled to present on the CITF Databank at McGill. As of October 2026, he directs McGill's Surveillance Lab, serves as Chief Digital Health Officer at the MUHC, and is Executive Scientific Director of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Now at
School of Population and Global Health, Santé Québec and Health Canada

Timeline

  1. May 2018

    AI ethics in public health

    In May 2018, he joins a Montreal panel on ethical challenges in AI for public health research.

  2. August 2020

    Joining Mila as an associate member

    In August 2020, Mila names him an associate member while he is an assistant professor in McGill's Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health.

  3. October 2020

    Proactive infectiousness prediction

    In October 2020, he coauthors a paper that uses a COVID-19 epidemiological simulator to test smartphone methods for predicting a person's infectiousness from contact history while respecting privacy constraints.

  4. By 2022

    AI analysis of coronavirus news

    By 2022, he works with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the World Health Organization to develop AI methods that analyze online news about how communities and public health agencies respond to the coronavirus epidemic.

  5. By 2025

    Medical and informatics training

    By 2025, he holds an MD from Queen's University, an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford.

  6. September 2025

    The CITF Databank seminar

    In September 2025, he is scheduled to present the CITF Databank's development and current status, including research using its data and data-sharing methods.

  7. September 2026

    Medication data standardization

    In September 2026, he participates in an MUHC project that aims to standardize medication data.

  8. As of October 2026

    McGill, MUHC and PHAC roles

    As of October 2026, he is a professor in McGill's School of Population and Global Health and directs its Surveillance Lab, which develops computational methods for population-health surveillance. He is also Chief Digital Health Officer at the MUHC and Executive Scientific Director of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Career

  1. NowMcGill UniversityAssistant Professor
  2. NowSchool of Population and Global HealthDirector
  3. NowSanté QuébecChief Digital Health Officer
  4. NowHealth CanadaExecutive Scientific Director
  5. From 2020MilaAssociate Member

Education

  1. Queen's UniversityMD
  2. University of TorontoMSc in Epidemiology
  3. Stanford UniversityPhD in Biomedical Informatics

From the biography.

  1. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes McGill University. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes McGill University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes McGill University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. 19% of people shaping AI who founded a dated organization have founded two or more, waiting a median of 7 years before a secondIncludes McGill University. Across 1,136 people shaping AI who founded or co-founded a dated company, standalone lab or nonprofit, 221 (19%) founded at least two organizations, accounting for 36% of all 1,421 founding events.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. CPHA Collaborator Panel Session: Exploring the Ethics of AI Approaches in Public Health cihr-irsc.gc.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. 13 New Researchers Join Mila's Faculty mila.quebec. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Predicting Infectiousness for Proactive Contact Tracing arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. The COVID-19 crisis: At war with a virus mcgill.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. The CITF Databank - A Research Resource and Metascience Research Platform mcgill.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Three MUHC projects selected for the Digital Health Innovation Fund muhc.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. David Buckeridge | Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. David Buckeridge | Mila mila.quebec. Checked 21 October 2026.