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

RADHOUENE DOGGUI
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Degree: PhD in Biological Sciences
Supervisors: Dr Mathieu Bélanger
Research Interests: Assessment of modifiable risk factors (dietary patterns, diet quality, nutritional status and level of physical activity) associated with chronic diseases; Implementation and evaluation of nutrition policies aiming to prevent and to reduce the burden of chronic diseases.

Current Position:
Degree: PhD(c), Health Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Mathieu Bélanger
Research Interests: Sport, youth, sport development, longitudinal data analysis, chronic disease prevention, health behaviors
FRANÇOIS GALLANT

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
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

VÉRONIQUE THIBAULT
Current Position: PhD Candidate
Degree: PhD(c), Health Sciences
Research Interests: Nutrition, weight management, obesity, epidemiology,
chronic diseases, health behaviors
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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.

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.
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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
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Degree: PhD, Mathematics
Supervisors: Dr Vetislav Apostolov and Dr François Lalonde
Research Interests: Functional data analysis, predictive models, geometric causal inference
LAURENCE BOULANGER

MICELINE MÉSIDOR
Current Position: Research Assistant, CRCHUM
Degree: PhD(c), Public Health, Option Epidemiology, École de Santé Publique de l'Université de Montréal
Supervisors: Dr. Marie-Pierre Sylvestre et Dr. Marie-Claude Rousseau
Research Interests: Longitudinal analyses, marginal structural modeling, trajectory analyses, pharmaco-epidemiology.

MARIE-ÈVE MICHAUD
Current Position: Student-Researcher
Degree: MSc(c), Health sciences research
Supervisors: Dr Mathieu Bélanger and Dr Colleen O'Connell
Research Interests: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, environment, risk factors
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MOUNIA NAJA
Current Position: Student
Degree: MSc, Epidemiology
Supervisors: Dr Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Research Interests: Genetic epidemiology, hypertension, gene-environment interaction, genetic susceptibility
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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
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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