Bloggers

The authors who publish articles on Qualaxia's blog are experts on the issues or themes that we value. They share specific articles or opinions on topics that affect populational mental health. Qualaxia wants to increase the variety of perspectives featured on their blog and attract other experts in joining the list of authors.
Marco Bacon
Marco Bacon, M.A.
Marco Bacon has been Director of the UQAC’s Nikanite First Nations Centre since September 2009. His main task is to ensure links between First Nations communities and the university in terms of education and research.
 
Jaunathan Bilodeau
Jaunathan Bilodeau
Jaunathan Bilodeau has a double major in psychology and sociology from the Université de Montréal. Currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Andrée Demers (Professor, Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal), his research focuses on the connection between work-family conflict and mental health, according to gender. He is also a student member of the Research Team on Work and Mental Health (ERTSM).

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Dan Bilsker
Dan Bilsker, Ph.D.
Dan Bilsker, Ph.D., is a psychologist who consults to the Mental Health Commission of Canada and other organizations though Vancouver Psych Safety Consulting Inc. He leads a project to enhance Canada's mental health care system through the dissemination of supported self-management interventions for mood disorders.

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Michelle Bourgoin
Michelle Bourgoin, M.H.A.
She is the Director at the Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport (Government of New Brunswick). Her accomplishments include the establishment of an interdepartmental wellness committee.

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Hélène Brouillet
Hélène Brouillet, M.Ps.
Hélène Brouillet is a psychologist and is currently participating in the Jalon project as project leader and knowledge broker. She also works on the development and adaptation of evidence-based clinical tools.

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CAMH
CAMH
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
 
Uppala Chandrasekera
Uppala Chandrasekera, M.S.W., RSW
Uppala is a Social Worker with over 15 years of work experience in the health sector. Currently, Uppala is the Director of Public Policy at the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario.
 
Geneviève Cloutier
Geneviève Cloutier, Ph.D.
Involved in various research projects during her career, Geneviève Cloutier has focused on social intervention practices and the fight against the social exclusion of various populations, including young adults.

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Julie Denoncourt
Julie Denoncourt, M.Sc.
Julie Denoncourt is a scientific consultant at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec in Montréal. She is currently completing her doctoral studies in community psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Julie contributes to works on preventive and promotion intervention effectiveness focusing on children and young adults.

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Florence Déplanche
Florence Déplanche, M.Sc.
With a Master’s degree in community health, Florence Déplanche is a social worker and research officer at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. She is involved in the drafting of scientific advice on effective interventions in mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders in young adults.

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Nicole Desjardins
Nicole Desjardins, M.Ps.
Nicole Desjardins is a scientific advisor at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec in Montréal and has been working for over 20 years in the promotion and prevention of mental health and social adaptation. She has contributed to a number of projects in this field including practical guidelines for intervention and evaluation, intervention tools and scientific advice.

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Luc Desrochers
Luc Desrochers, M.A.
As coordinator of the Réseau québécois de recherche sur le suicide (RQRS), Luc Desrochers helps strengthen Quebec leadership in the field of suicide research. He also addresses suicide from a neurobiological, clinical, psycho-pathological and sociocultural standpoint.

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Isabelle Doré
Isabelle Doré, M.Sc.
Isabelle Doré’s doctoral thesis will focus on physical activity and its effect on the promotion of mental health and the prevention of anxiety and depressive disorders among young adults.

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Martin Drapeau
Martin Drapeau
Martin Drapeau is a psychologist and a professor of counselling psychology and psychiatry at McGill University, where he directs the McGill Psychotherapy Process Research Group. Dr. Drapeau is also Editor-in-chief of the literary journals Canadian Psychology and Science and Practice.

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Francine Ducharme
Francine Ducharme, Ph.D.
Francine Ducharme completed postdoctoral training in mental health. She holds a Desjardins Research Chair in Nursing Care for Seniors and Their Families from the Université de Montréal and is a member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her research interests have focused on the mental health of caregivers for over 20 years.

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Louise Fournier
Louise Fournier, Ph.D.
Dr. Louise Fournier is an associate professor in the Département de médecine sociale et préventive of the Université de Montréal's faculty of medicine. As the founder of Qualaxia, she is responsible for the general and scientific direction of the network.

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Jason Guriel
Jason Guriel, Ph.D.
Jason Guriel is a Communications and Social Media Coordinator in the Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He also has a PhD in English and is a freelance book reviewer.

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Dominique Harvey
Dominique Harvey. M.Sc.
Dominique Harvey worked for the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec (IUSMQ) in the field of mental health for 25 years. She is now an advisor with the National Centre for Excellence in Mental Health (NCEMH) and supports primary mental health teams in the ongoing implementation and improvement of innovative clinical practices as per ministerial guidelines.
 
Janie Houle
Janie Houle, Ph.D.
Janie Houle is a professor in the community section of the Département de psychologie at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is currently working on individual, social, community and health determinants of self-care for people with major depression.

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Nick Kates
Nick Kates, MBBS, FRCP (C)
Nick Kates has worked to develop a strategy for collaboration between mental health and primary care services across Canada. He his recognized for his leadership in building bridges between mental health and primary care services in Canada.

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Laurence J. Kirmayer
Laurence J. Kirmayer, M. D., FRCPC
Director of the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit of the Department of Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital in Montréal, Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer focuses on mental health services for immigrants and refugees, psychiatry in primary care, and the anthropology of psychiatry.

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Lise Laberge
Lise Laberge, M.Sc.
Lise Laberge is a clinical nurse advisor at the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec and President of the Quebec mental health nurses association (AQIISM). She has also contributed to various initiatives such as creating a directory of practice guidelines for the development of mental health TNPs and a project on the prevention and management of suicidal behaviours in psychiatric hospitals.
 
Arlène Laliberté
Arlène Laliberté, Ph.D.
Arlene Laliberté is an Anishinaabekwe (Algonquin woman) from Témiscamingue and obtained a doctorate in community psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research interests lie in suicide among Aboriginal populations from an ecological perspective, as well as psychological autopsies and primary prevention of suicide risk factors.

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Le Ngoc Lam
Le Ngoc Lam
Le Ngoc Lam works at the Centre of Health and Social Services Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle (CSSS DLL) for nearly two years as Head of administration program for early childhood services and general services to youth. She has developed expertise in perinatal and early childhood services for more than seven years.

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Stéphanie Lassonde
Stéphanie Lassonde
Stéphanie Lassonde is the Director of Communications for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, in Calgary. Stéphanie is recognized for having started the first public education program in a Québec mental health institution and for developing innovative communications strategies using the web and social media to engage with the public about mental health issues.

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Matthew Menear
Matthew Menear, Ph.D.
Matthew Menear is particularly interested in how policies and the organization of health services influence the quality of primary care provided to people with mental health problems.

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Lorraine Millette
Lorraine Millette
Coordinating the Zippy's Friends mental health promotion program for the CRISE and involved in the implementation by dissemination, recruitment, and training for Zippy's Friends and Passeport : S'équiper pour la vie (Passport: Skills for life) programs, as well as their evaluation. She is pursuing doctoral studies in community psychology at UQAM.

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Marie-Hélène Morin
Marie-Hélène Morin, M.Sc.
Through her practice of social work, Marie-Hélène Morin became interested in the experiences of family members and friends coping with a loved one’s mental illness. In the last ten years, her research and training activities have sought to equip and support family members and care providers, and to promote the vital role of families in the intervention process.

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Monica Nunes
Monica Nunes, MPH
Monica Nunes is a Research Analyst in the Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Within CAMH, she works within the Health Promotion Resource Centre providing system support, capacity building, content expertise and access to information and research for Ontario health promotion and public health audiences.

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Renée Ouimet
Renée Ouimet, M.A.
Renée Ouimet is a director at the Canadian Mental Health Association – Quebec Division. She is responsible for coordinating and implementing National Mental Health Week in Quebec. Thanks to her career in the field of community health and her comprehensive approach to health, she brings a complementary view in the areas of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders.

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Claire Page
Claire Page, Inf., Ph. D.
Professor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski's Department of Nursing, Claire Page provides provincial leadership in the development of the mental health specialization in graduate-level nursing programs.

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Emmanuel Poirel
Emmanuel Poirel, Ph.D.
A consultant for 10 years in organizational health management, Emmanuel Poirel guided several colleges in implementing integrated workplace health approaches. As a researcher, his interests include approaches that promote health in schools.

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Léo-Roch Poirier
Léo-Roch Poirier, M.Sc.
Léo-Roch Poirier has over 20 years of experience in the public health network. He has extensive expertise in the organization of primary care and mental health services as well as in the assessment of health services and determinants for the use of these services. Since 2006, he has been focusing his skills on the Dialogue reseach project.

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Julie Poissant
Julie Poissant, Ph.D.
Julie Poissant holds a doctorate in community psychology. She is the author of many knowledge syntheses, practice guidelines and scientific advice including the effective interventions in mental health and the prevention of mental disorders published by the INSPQ.

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Jean-Remy Provost
Jean-Remy, B.A. Provost
As director of Revivre, a community organization, Jean-Rémy Provost is involved in integrating the concept of self-care to the psychoeducational support provided to people afflicted with anxiety, depressive or bipolar disorders and their loved ones.

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Alan Regenstreif
Alan Regenstreif, D.I.A., M.S.W., S.W.
Alan Regenstreif is a social worker who is the Coordinator of the Leading Practices in Mental Health and Aging at the CSSS Cavendish. He is also a trainer for the Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS) at the CSSS Cavendish.

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Marie-Claude Roberge
Marie-Claude Roberge, M.Sc.
Marie-Claude Roberge holds a Master's degree in sociology of health from the Université de Montréal and has over 15 years of experience in promoting health and social adaptation.

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David Robitaille
David Robitaille, M.D. FRCP
David Robitaille is a psychiatrist who has been closely involved in the implementation of primary mental health care for 10 years. He is member of an expert committee on the organization of primary mental health care at the MSSS and medical adviser on several primary mental health care research advisory committees.

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Marie-Lyne Roc
Marie-Lyne Roc, M.Sc.
Social worker Marie-Lyne Roc is a professional affairs manager for the professional development department of the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec. She takes part in various projects related to the specificity of social work, the promotion of social work practices and the contribution of the profession at clinical and social levels.

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Philippe Roy
Philippe Roy, M.Sc.
Mr. Roy has addressed men’s mental health from various angles. Currently pursuing his doctorate in social work at Université Laval, his thesis will focus on male roles and their influence on how Quebec farmers adapt to stress.

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Louise St-Arnaud
Louise St-Arnaud, Ph.D.
Louise St-Arnaud is a professor in the Département des fondements et pratiques en éducation in the faculty of education at Université Laval and director of the Canada Research Chair on Occupational Integration and the Psychosocial Environment of Work (CRIEVAT).

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Sheela Subramanian
Sheela Subramanian, M.A.
Sheela Subramanian is a Planning and Policy Analyst at the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario where she leads work on health equity, human rights, and accessibility issues in mental health.

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Mai Thanh Tu
Mai Thanh Tu, Ph.D.
Mai Thanh Tu, Ph.D. is a researcher at the Université de Montréal Public Health Research Institute (IRSPUM). For several years now, her work has focused on stress and depressive symptoms in mothers and children of all ages, from birth to the start of adolescence. She is also interested in the health of immigrant families, and the stressful living conditions and events that affect them.

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Helen-Maria Vasiliadis
Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Ph.D.
Helen-Maria Vasiliadis is an assistant professor at the Département des sciences de la santé communautaire of the Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her research involves determinants associated with the use of mental health services by the population (equity and accessibility), cost analyses, assessment of the effectiveness of health care services offered to psychiatric patients, quality of life and program evaluation.

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Michel Vézina
Michel Vézina, M.D., MPH, FRCPC
Michel Vézina is a doctor specializing in community health, a professor in the Département de médecine sociale et préventive at Université Laval, a consultant in occupational health at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec and a regular researcher for GIROSST (Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'organisation, la santé et la sécurité du travail) at Université Laval.

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Georgia Vrakas
Georgia Vrakas, Ph.D.
Georgia Vrakas is currently conducting two community-based participatory research projects on Aboriginal youth mental health and empowerment.

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Véronique Wilson
Véronique Wilson, B.Sc.
Occupational therapist and member of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital’s intensive case management team, Véronique Wilson recently completed her Master’s in community health at the Université de Montréal. Her thesis focused on hierarchized care in CSSSs, and the factors influencing and guiding its implementation.

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