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Lead Researcher
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Yan Kestens

PhD 

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Full Professor 

 

Yan Kestens is a full professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal (ESPUM) and a researcher at the Centre for Public Health Research (CReSP). His research aims to improve our understanding of how urban change impacts population health, considering converging objectives of sustainability, improved quality of life, and reduced health inequalities. Yan develops new tools to collect and analyze spatial data and processes, including wearable sensors and map-based online questionnaires.

Invited guests

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Prof. Martina Kanning

Chair of Social and Health Sciences | Universität Konstanz

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Pablo Villar

PhD student | Universitat de Barcelona

Research staff

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Brenagh Rapoport

Project Coordinator, Complex Systems

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Benoît Thierry

IT & GIS Advisor

Postdoctoral fellows

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Justine Petrucci

Greening and dynamics of gentrification

PhD students

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Julie Karmann

Walking and local sociality

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Célia Kingsbury

Built environment, urban well-being and social inequalities

Master's students

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Marianne Lefebvre-Campbell

Greening and well-being

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Alan Samba Dih

Implementation of greening interventions

Collaborators

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Cécile Aenishaenslin

Faculté de médecine vétérinaire | Université de Montréal

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Evelyne de Leeuw

École de santé publique | Université de Montréal

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Ahmed El-Geneidy

School of Urban Planning | McGill University

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Sébastien Lord

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

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Grégory Moullec

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

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Bouchra Nasri

École de santé publique | Université de Montréal

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Daniel Fuller

College of Medicine | University of Saskatchewan

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Laetitia Minary

Apemac | Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Lorraine

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Liliana Perez

Département de géographie | Université de Montréal

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Martine Shareck

Dép. Sciences de la santé communautaire | Université de Sherbrooke

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Marie-Christine Therrien

Cité-ID LivingLab | ENAP

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Veronique Van Acker

Urban Development and Mobility |Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

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Anne Vuillemin

Laboratoire Motricité Humaine Expertise Sport Santé | Université Côté d'Azur

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Meghan Winters

CHATR lab | Simon Fraser University

Alumni

Lorena Aragonés, M.Urb
Marie-Lyse Bélanger, M.Sc 
Iba Bemba, M.Sc 
Jessica Bibeau, M.Sc 
Sanjeev Bista, PhD
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
Nadra El Hania, PhD
Neda Firouraghi, PhD
Stephan Gabet, PhD
Jean-Bernard Gariépy, M.Sc 
Philippe Gerber, LISER 
Sadun Khezri, M.Sc
Behzad Kiani, PhD
Olivier Klein, LISER 
Alexandre Lebel, PhD 
Karine Léger, M.Sc 
Sonia Lu  
Amanda Ly, M.Sc
Allison Maurel, M.Sc
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  
Zoé Poirier-Stephens, MUP
Yuddy Ramos, PhD 
Gabrielle Rancourt, M.Sc 
Mathieu Rancourt, M.Sc
Marcela Rivera, PhD 
Camille Roberge, M.Sc 
Pierre Rondier, PhD 
Teresa Rosati
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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