Dr. Depeng Jiang is an assistant professor in the department of Community Health Sciences of University of Manitoba and a director of the Biostatistical Consulting Unit at University of Manitoba. Dr. Jiang had many years of experience in providing statistical consulting to a broad range of clients and training students and researchers on the conduct of statistical analyses. He is also adjunct professor with OISE of University of Toronto and with Department of Psychology of York University. He also serves as a senior statistical advisor on several organizations (e.g., Child Development Institute, St Michael’s Hospital).

Dr. Jiang’s program of research focuses on person-oriented statistical methods. The goals of his research program are to develop new person-oriented methods for analyzing multivariate longitudinal data and to promote the use of person-oriented methods in health research. His research program will provide the foundation to extend researchers’ capacities to empirically assess person-oriented principles, individual specificity, and inter-individual differences and intra-individual change.  His main research interests include longitudinal analysis and multilevel models, person-centered statistical approaches (latent class analysis and growth mixture models), structural equation models, clinical trial design and evaluation.

Dr. Jiang is teaching several biostatistics courses in the Department's Graduate Program and currently supervises several graduate students (MSc and PhD) and postdoctoral fellow. He is interested in recruiting new students (graduate, summer, etc.) and postdoctoral fellow.
 

Research Interests
• Longitudinal data analysis and multilevel model.
• Person-centered statistical approaches in health science.
• Latent variable analysis and structural equation model.
• Clinical trial design and intervention evaluation.
• Mental health of children and youth.