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

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.

LATIFA SAIDI
Current Position: Professor
Degree: PhD(c)
Supervisors: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger
Research Interests: Maternity,
breastfeeding, promotion of physical
activity during pregnancy

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

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

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

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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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

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
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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
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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
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