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François Benoit
Lead
francois.benoit@inspq.qc.ca
François Benoit has been working for health organizations in the fields of policy research and communications for more than twenty years. After completing his Master's in Sociology, he lectured in community health, health sociology and organizational sociology at the University of Montréal and at the business school of the University of Montreal. More recently he was Director for Health Policy, Research and Special Projects for the Quebec Medical Association, where he collaborated with many provincial medical association members of the Canadian Medical Association. After, he became a consultant and worked for the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de la Pointe-de-l'Île in the Montréal region. He has been with the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy since November 2006, and was named the Centre's Lead in October, 2007.
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Olivier Bellefleur
Research Officer
olivier.bellefleur@inspq.qc.ca
Olivier has been working at the Centre since 2010. His academic background is in philosophy (B.A., UQAM; M.A., University of Montréal) and environmental sciences (M.A. [in progress], UQAM). He has worked as a teaching and research assistant in three of Montréal's four universities on different subjects, including populations' vulnerability to climate change and policies for adaptation to climate change, with the Chaire d'études sur les écosystèmes urbains at UQAM. His work at the Centre focuses on policies informing the built environment and on traffic-calming policies in particular. He is also interested in climate change adaptation and mitigation policies, and in the links between sustainable development and public health. He lives in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, in Montréal.
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Julie Castonguay
Network Development Officer (on parental leave)
julie.castonguay@inspq.qc.ca
Julie Castonguay joined the Centre's team in November, 2010, as a Network development officer. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in international economics from Maastricht University, in the south of The Netherlands. Her master's thesis was on the evaluation of the performance of the welfare state in Europe and the United States. Afterwards, she obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the evaluation of welfare-to-work programs. In her research, she compared the different implementation processes and the results of the programs in Australia, Canada (Ontario), The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland (Geneva). She also participated in the benchmarking of welfare-to-work programs in 85 Dutch municipalities. Julie has also been teaching public economics and social policies at the bachelor's and master‘s level in an innovative teaching program (Problem-Based Learning). After having lived outside of Quebec since her final high-school years, Julie is now glad to be back in Quebec and living in Montréal's LaSalle neighbourhood with her family.
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François Gagnon
Research Officer
francois.gagnon@inspq.qc.ca
François Gagnon has been at the Centre since 2006. He has studied Criminology with a minor in Sociology (B.Sc.), and Communications (M.Sc. and PhD.). François has taught courses in research methodology and in media and popular culture at the Department of Communications Sciences at the Université de Montréal. His specific research interests include policies on the movement of goods and people and policies aiming to manage how people relate to psychotropic substances. François is developing knowledge for regional public health authorities and not-for-profit organizations on traffic calming in urban settings in order to clarify the dimensions of these policies and promote them if necessary. He lives in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, in Montréal.
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Geneviève Hamel
Network Development Officer
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Isabelle Hémon
Administrative Technician
isabelle.hemon@inspq.qc.ca
Isabelle brings administrative, logistics and budgeting support to the Centre. She has also been involved in special projects such as the organization of the 2009 NCCs Summer Institute. She graduated from a French University where she specialized in organizational management. She learned her English in Ireland as a student, and later while working in the U.K. Before joining the NCCHPP, Isabelle was working in the area of training and consultation services where she dealt with customer services, administration and finances, and printed and Web communications. Isabelle enjoys time with her family, riding her bike, cooking and eating, yoga, and getting away by travelling or reading.
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Marie-Christine Hogue
Research Officer (on parental leave)
marie-christine.hogue@inspq.qc.ca
Marie-Christine Hogue was hired in May 2005 to support the Centre's development and implementation. She has fulfilled certain research support functions, including research on the role of evidence in policy decision-making and methods for making informed decisions. She currently holds the position of network development officer, fostering dissemination of the Centre's work. She has a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in policy analysis from Université Laval. Her master's internship was with the public health branch of Quebec's department of health and social services, where she conducted a review of models for assessing the performance of public health systems. Marie-Christine then completed a post-graduate certificate in public-sector management at Quebec's École nationale d'administration publique. Before working at the Centre, she collaborated with Jean Harvey on a research project at the University of Ottawa. She collected data for a study on social capital as part of the Québec en Forme program, and has also worked at the Conseil de la santé et du bien-être (now called the Commissaire à la santé et au bien-être), identifying models for appraising and assessing the performance of health and social service systems. Her main research interests are public policy analysis and assessments of public programs, public health promotion through healthy public policies, public health in general, and innovative knowledge-sharing activities. Marie-Christine loves the outdoors and lives in the Québec City region, which she enjoys discovering with her young son.
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Marianne Jacques
Network Development Officer
marianne.jacques@inspq.qc.ca
Marianne has been working for the NCCHPP as a network development officer since 2007. She holds a bachelor's degree in communication and political science from the Université de Montréal where she also completed a Master's degree in political science. Before working at the Centre, she worked with Nicole F. Bernier on a research project examining welfare states and public health systems in Canada, England and Sweden. She also participated on a research project with Marie-Pascale Pomey on healthcare privatization in Canada. Her main research interests are: public policy analysis, public health, health promotion and prevention policies as well as health policies. Outside of work, she likes to do boxing, cycling and Pilates.
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Michael Keeling
Information Specialist
michael.keeling@inspq.qc.ca
Michael has been with the Centre since 2007, working mainly on writing and editing for publications and the website. His academic background is in English literature (B.A., Toronto) and Philosophy (B.A., Victoria; M.A., Dalhousie) with interests in epistemology, language and ethics. Prior to joining the Centre, he worked in community development with a not-for-profit. He lives in Montréal.
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Mylène Maguire
NCC Communications Coordinator
mylene.maguire@inspq.qc.ca
Mylène has been the communications coordinator for the six National Collaborating Centres for Public Health since April 2009. She has a bachelors in Public Communications from Université Laval. Before joining the NCCPHH team, she worked as a communications and funding agent for a not-for-profit organization in Montreal, taught in South Korea, and completed a humanitarian project in Argentina.
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Christopher W. McDougall
Research Officer
Christopher_W.McDougall@inspq.qc.ca
With a background in political science, bioethics, and health policy, Christopher McDougall joined the NCCHPP in 2009 as a research officer in the Montreal office, where he is developing knowledge translation and networking tools in the emerging field of public health ethics. Christopher holds a BA and an MA from McGill, and is PhD candidate in the Collaborative Programme in Bioethics, though the Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, at the University of Toronto. He is also part of a research team at the Joint Centre for Bioethics that has been exploring the ethical challenges raised by infectious diseases since 2003. Christopher's research lies at the intersection of international law and relations, public health, and ethical theory, with a particular focus on policy responses to global disparities in infectious disease control capacities and access to essential medicines. His dissertation, parts of which have been published as lead and co-authored papers on health policy, public health law, global health security, and pandemic preparedness in CMAJ, Health Law Review, Health Care Quarterly, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, evaluates the prospects for achieving an integrated global network of public health surveillance systems, as proposed under revisions to international law made in the wake of the SARS crisis.
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Anika Mendell
Research Officer
anika.mendell@inspq.qc.ca
Anika Mendell studied theatre and journalism at the undergraduate level, while actively involved in various artistic and community groups. Interested in health throughout these studies, she decided to pursue a Master's degree in Community Health at the Université de Montréal, which she completed in 2006. Her thesis, supervised by Louise Potvin and Sylvie Gendron, focused on the implementation of a Quebec public health program that seeks to create healthy and supportive environments for families. Since joining the Centre, she has developed tools for knowledge transfer (tobacco timeline) and revised English-language documents (2006-2008). She currently works on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and policies addressing poverty. Anika lives in the Montréal borough of Rosemont-La-Petite Patrie with her three children and partner, and enjoys doing yoga, travelling and anything having to do with food.
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Florence Morestin
Research Officer
florence.morestin@inspq.qc.ca
Florence Morestin joined the Centre in March 2009 following many years working in international public health. Florence is trained in political science (IEP Aix-en-Provence) and community health (M.Sc., Université de Montréal). Her work at the NCCHPP deals with analysis and synthesis methods appropriate to the study of public policy. Her work seeks to help public health actors collect relevant evidence on public policies and use it to inform decision makers. Florence also contributes to the Centre's expertise on knowledge sharing.
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Val Morrison
Research Officer
val.morrison@inspq.qc.ca
Val has been a full-time research officer at the Centre since 2008. She has a background in sociology specializing in race and ethnic relations, popular culture, and cultural theory. She has taught courses in Canadian society, political sociology, and the sociology of sport, notably, and continues to be a regular part-time faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her specific interests at the Centre are health and social inequalities. The projects she is involved with include one that examines the ways that not-for-profit organizations influence policy and another on the usefulness of the concept of wicked problems as a way of addressing health inequalities. Val lives in the Laurentians.
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Julie St-Pierre
Network Development Officer
julie.st-pierre@inspq.qc.ca
Julie St-Pierre joined the Centre in June 2011. She holds a master's degree in Anthropology from the Université de Montréal, where she researched the health of children who are subject to international adoption, with the intercultural pediatrics unit of St. Justine Hospital in Montréal. Later, she obtained a doctorate in semiotics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her thesis focused on the ritual of family storytelling in Québec. Still pursuing her studies, Julie worked as a research assistant at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (National Institute for Scientific Research) at the Centre for urbanization, culture and society, on different projects relating to children, families and kinship/affiliation. Motivated to see the world and to be socially engaged, she completed two humanitarian work terms abroad, working with children from marginalized families in Burkina Faso and in Russia. In her free time, Julie enjoys reading, Yoga, snowboarding and travel. She lives in the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montréal.
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Louise St-Pierre
Head of Projects
louise.st-pierre@inspq.qc.ca
Louise St-Pierre has worked at the Centre from the beginning, having led the activities that led to its implementation. She has a Master's degree in Community Health from the Université Laval, where she also pursued a doctorate in the same program. Her areas of interest include the practice of health impact assessment, Health in all Policies (HiaP) strategies, and intersectoral governance. Louise collaborates internationally with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, where she is a member of a global work group on HIA. She currently splits her time between the WHO Collaborating Centre on Chronic Disease Policy of the Public Health Agency of Canada and the NCCHPP, where she contributes to the development of knowledge on HIA practices. |
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