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Meet the team
Lab head
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Yan Kestens

PhD

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Full Professor

 

Yan Kestens, full professor at Ecole de Santé Publique de l’Université de Montréal, is a Principal Investigator on INTERACT. His research focuses on improving our understanding of how urban changes influences population health, considering converging objectives of sustainability, improved quality of life and reduced health inequalities. Yan develops new tools to collect and analyse spatial data and processes, including wearable sensors, and map-based online questionnaires.

Staff members

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Zoé Poirier Stephens

National INTERACT Coordinator

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Benoit Thierry

IT & GIS Advisor

Postdoctoral fellows

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Behzad Kiani

Spatio-temporal analysis of urban dynamics and health

PhD students

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Nadra El Hania

Healthy Aging and the Design of Urban Environments

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Julie Karmann

Marche et la sociabilité locale

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Célia Kingsbury

Built environment, urban well-being and social inequalities

Master's students

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Iba Bamba

Gentrification, infrastructures urbaines et bien-être à Montréal

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Sadun Khezri

Ecological Momentary Assessment of Well-Being

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Amanda Ly

Santé mentale: Minorités visibles dans l’étude COHESION

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Allison Maurel

Santé mentale et contexte environnemental durant la COVID-19

Collaborators

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Grégory Moullec

Centre de recherche | CIUSSS Nord-de-l'Île

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Meghan Winters

CHATR lab |Simon Fraser University

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Marie-Christine Therrien

Cité-ID LivingLab | ENAP

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Martine Shareck

Dép. Sciences de la santé communautaire | Université de Sherbrooke

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Laetitia Minary

Apemac | Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Lorraine

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Sébastien Lord

École d'urbanisme et d'architecture de paysage | Université de Montréal

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Daniel Fuller

College of Medicine | University of Saskatchewan

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Ahmed El-Geneidy

School of Urban Planning | McGill University

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Jeff Brook

Dalla Lana School of Public Health | University of Toronto

Previous members

Lorena Aragonés, M. Urb

Marie-Lyse Bélanger, M.Sc 

Iba Bemba, M.Sc 

Jessica Bibeau, M.Sc 

Ruben Brondeel, PhD

Ronaldo Cândido, B. Sc

Mathieu Carrier, PhD 

Sarah Chaput, Dt.P 

Axelle Chevalier, M. Eng

Martin Chevrier, M. Sc

Christelle Clary, PhD 

Camille Clément, M.Sc 

Dominic Comtois, B. Sc

Carolyn Côté-Lussier,  PhD 

Nicoleta Cutumisu, PhD 

Nino Djdondo Sandjo, PhD

Sandra Dorsainville, PhD 

Marie-Josée Dupuis, M. Urb

Stephan Gabet, PhD

Jean-Bernard Gariépy, M.Sc 

Philippe Gerber, LISER 

Olivier Klein, LISER 

Alexandre Lebel, PhD 

Karine Léger, M.Sc 

Sonia Lu  

Daniel Margulius, M. Ing

Geneviève Mercille, PhD 

Marina Najjar, M.A. 

Alexandre Naud, PhD 

Simon Paquette, M.Sc 

Nicolas Parenteau MD 

Georges Parker, B.Sc 

Camille Perchoux, PhD  

Yuddy Ramos, PhD 

Gabrielle Rancourt, M.Sc 

Mathieu Rancourt, M.Sc 

Marcela Rivera, PhD 

Camille Roberge, M.Sc 

Pierre Rondier, PhD 

Mikayla Salmon-Beitel  

Ahmad Sebak, M. Ing

Madeleine Steinmetz-Wood, MSP 

Julie Vallée, PhD 

Torbjorn Van Heeswijck, PhD

Rania Wasfi, PhD 

Chérine Zaim, MD 

Guoying Zeng, PhD 

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