STUDENTS
JULIA DABRAVOLSKAJ
Current position: Project Coordinator for CIHR COVID study, led by Dr. Katerina Maximova
Degree: PhD(c), Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
Supervisors: Dr. Katerina Maximova and Dr. Paul Veugelers
Research interests: Healthy eating, physical activity and mental health in youth, cost-effectiveness and return on investment of school-based interventions that promote healthy eating and active living among children and youth
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SOREN HARNOIS-LEBLANC
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c) Public Health, Option Epidemiology, École de Santé Publique de l'Université de Montréal
Supervisors: Dr. Mélanie Henderson and Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, insulin sensitivity, beta cell function, obesity, children, adolescents, lifestyle habits, longitudinal analyses, model averaging, causal inference methods.
LATIFA SAIDI
Current Position: Professor
Degree: PhD(c)
Supervisors: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger
Research Interests: Maternity,
breastfeeding, promotion of physical
activity during pregnancy
CHRISTIAN WILFRIED MENDO
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Public Health, Option Epidemiology, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal
Supervisors: Dr. Mark Keezer and Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Epidemiology of heart disease; genetic epidemiology, causal inference methods including Mendelian randomization and mediation analyses
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RAJIT CHOPRA
Current Position: Student-researcher
Degree: MSc, Epidemiology (Research option)
Supervisors: Dr. Jennifer O'Loughlin and Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Chronic diseases, cancer, nutrition, physical rehabilitation, and chromosome and gene disorders
FRANÇOIS GALLANT
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Health Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger
Research Interests: Sport, youth, sport development, longitudinal data analysis, chronic disease prevention, health behaviors
FISTON IKWA NDOL MBUTIWI
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Public Health, option Epidemiology, École de Santé
Publique de l'Université de Montréal
Supervisors: Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Method evaluation
for detecting pleiotropy in mendelian randomization, FTO gene and its utility
as an instrument for adiposity in
mendelian randomization.
JODI KALUBI
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Public Health, Option Health Promotion, École de Santé Publique de l'Université de Montréal
Supervisors: Dr. Jennifer O'Loughlin and Dr. Louise Potvin
Research Interests: Health-promoting interventions, social inequalities, children/teenagers/young adults, school environment.
VÉRONIQUE THIBAULT
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Health Sciences
Supervisors: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger
Research Interests: Nutrition, weight management, obesity, epidemiology,
chronic diseases, health behaviors
DANIEL SAUCIER
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Health Science Research
Supervisors: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger and Dr. Colleen O'Connell
Research Interests: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, environment, risk factors
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ALEXIA ARMASU
Current Position: Student
Degree: MSc, Public Health (Research option)
Supervisors: Dr. Jennifer O'Loughlin and Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Chronic diseases, obesity, hypertension, genetics, youth, health behaviors, risk factors, prevention of chronic disease
ANNIE PELEKANAKIS
Current position: Doctoral student.
Degree: MSc Public Health
Supervisors: Dr. Jennifer O’Loughlin, Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre and Dr. Isabelle Dore
Research Interests: Coping in stressful situations, smoking, depressive symptoms, mental health
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TEODORA RIGLEA
Current position: Doctoral student
Degree: MSc Epidemiology
Supervisors: Dr. Jennifer O’Loughlin, Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre and Dr. Catherine Sabiston
Research Interests: Physical activity, screen time, longitudinal models, social inequalities, school-based health promotion
TATIANA DESSY
Current position: Doctoral student
Degree: PhD, Public Health, Option Epidemiology, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal
Supervisors: Dr. Marie-Pierre Dubé and Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Mendelian randomization, cardiovascular health, pharmacogenomics
FREDDY FRANCOIS ATEBA
Current position: MSc Student
Degree: MSc, Mathematics, Option Statistics, UQAM
Supervisors: Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre (UMontréal) and Pr. Geneviève Lefebvre (UQAM)
Research Interests: Causal inference, Mendelian randomization, mathematical genetics
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JEAN-FRANÇOIS CLÉMENT
Current position: MSc Student
Degree: MSc, Health Sciences Research Program (PRSS), Université de Sherbrooke
Supervisors: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger and Dr. Catherine Hudon
Research Interests: Physical activity, sports medicine, joint pain, pain relief
PAMELA TANGUAY
Current position: PhD candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Health Sciences Research Program, Université de Sherbrooke
Supervisors: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger and Dr. Nicole Marquis
Research Interests: Cardiac rehabilitation, cardiovascular disease, patient-oriented research