Full & Associate Members

Sarah Brauner-Otto

(Director)

• Demography
• Family sociology
• Fertility
• Macro-micro linkages
• Environmental sociology

• Demographic indicators of population health
• Demography in developing countries
• HIV/AIDS
• Family dynamics
• Social and economic determinants of health

• Family dynamics
• Social and health research related to single motherhood and adolescent girls
• Transitions to adulthood
• Sexual health

• Marriage
• Family
• Gender
• Migration
• Health and Well-being
• Social demography
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Quantitative methods

• Population Health
• Mental Health
• Medical Sociology
• Race and Racism
• Life Course

• Behavioural and economic determinants of health
• Social inequality in child health

• Economic development (labor markets, integration of women in labor force, credit markets and bank failures, trade and growth, tax reform)
• Health economics
• Environment economics.

• Population health and its social distribution
• Evidence construction
• Measuring health inequalities
• Global health
• Demography
• Cancer epidemiology
• Causal inference
• Ethical issues in public health

• Social epidemiology
• Analytic methodology
• Causal inference
• Health outcomes including perinatal outcomes and cardiovascular, psychiatric and infectious diseases

• Population economics (e.g. schooling and fertility)
• Health economics (determinants of the socio-economic gradient in health e.g. education, cognitive ability)
• Labour economics (e.g. earnings inequalities, stigma due to unemployment)

• Rural development
• Access to markets
• Relationships between income, health and education in economic development
• Study of economic decision-making using experimental and behavioural methods

Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour, Desautels School of Management

• Sociology of the labour force
• Industrial policy
• Relationship between institutions and economic development in Italy
• Population studies

• Effects of social policies on health and health inequalities in a global context
• Social and economic determinants of population health
• Causal methods

• Public policy effects on social inequalities in health
• Social determinants of health and mental health
• Health services research
• Population health
• Social demography (fertility)

• Social determinants of health
• Stress, health and mortality
• Immigration and health
• Meta-analysis and meta-regression methods

• Labour market research
• Demographic differences in labour market outcomes
• Sources of labour market disadvantage
• Characteristics of so-called 'NEETs' - persons not in employment, education or training

• International migration
• Inter-generational processes in migrant families
• Political attachments of immigrants
• Cross-border connections
• Second-generation immigrants
• Comparative race and ethnicity

• Health economics
• Policy impacts on health outcomes and inequalities
• Impacts of preventive and primary care practice
• Impact evaluation of population health interventions

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Social demography
• Family dynamics
• Statistical models
• Immigrant populations
• Public health
• Computational social sciences

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Economics

• Labour economics
• Development and political economy
• Electoral outcomes and labor market outcomes
• Workforce management and firm performance in developing countries

Institute for Health and Social Policy/ School of Environment

• Economic well-being of populations
• Social and economic determinants of well-being
• Education and labour market entry

• Population health
• Global environmental health

• Epidemiologic Methods
• Global Health
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Social Epidemiology

• Economic growth and development (institutions, infrastructure, markets)
• Microeconometrics
• Population health
• Randomized interventions

• Behavioural Science
• Development
• Economic Sociology
• Global Health
• Health Care
• Malfeasance
• Organizational Theory
• Political Economy

• Political economy of development
• Public opinion and voting behaviour
• Political participation in new democracies
• Election fraud and political corruption
• Democratization
• Formert Soviet Union
• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Social epidemiology
• Aging
• Impacts of social relations on health, disease and mortality
• Mental health
• Health services research
• Population health
• Women's health

• Experts
• Professions and Occupations
• Signaling and Perceptions of Expertise
• Careers of Knowledge Workers
• New Forms of Work and Employment

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier

• Labour Economics
• Urban Economics
• Productivity
• Entrepreneurship

• Population and social policy
• Location choice, life course and well-being
• Demography and labour market development
• Immigration and housing
• Inequality and stratification

• Life-course research with special emphasis on the intersection between marital and fertility behavior and labor market institutions
• Changing family values and dynamics
• Partnership formation and dissolution
• Social policy

Desautels School of Management

• Sociology of the labor market
• Poverty and social class
• Economic sociology
• Patterns of employment and inequality  

Alissa Koski

McGill University

• Social determinants of women’s health and well being in low-income countries
• Child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States
• Impact of social policies using quasi-experimental methods  

• Family dynamics
• Fertility, youth and gender
•  Québec and Canada
• Immigrant populations
• Contraception, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Family dynamics in Québec and Canada
• Differences and similarities that exist between marriage and cohabiting unions
• Impact of conjugal instability on family network and support at old age
• Role of growing cultural diversity in modifying family patterns

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Démographie

Université de Montréal

• Population issues in developing countries including:
  • Fertility
  • Transitions to adulthood
  • Support for the elderly
  • Determinants of health for children

• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Impact Evaluation
• Mathematical Modeling
• Cost-effectiveness
• Measurements
• Population Health and Global Health

• Family and fertility
• Kinship networks
• Social and economic determinants of well-being

• Communication in social settings and academic contexts
• Statistical modeling 
• Computational methodologies
• Network Analysis

• Bio-psycho-social attributes
• Mental health
• Medical genomics
• Epigenetics
• Population cohorts

• Public health
• Policy implementation
• Program evaluation
• Burden of illness
• Health services use

• Families
• Wealth inequality
• Household debt and finances
• Gender

• Population health
• Social and environmental determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ health and well-being

• Environmental determinants of well-being
• Ecosystem and resource use
• Interactions between livelihoods, the natural environment and governance institutions

College of Public Health and Human Sciences

• Poverty across time and life course
• Families
• Social policy.

• Social informatics (how to measure and model large-scale human behavior from online information)
• Demographic inference (using online data to understand online populations)

• Computational & Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems
• Mechanisms of Inequality in Markets
• Occupations & Organizations
• Professional Socialization
• Social Network Analysis

• Labor Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• Economics of Education

• Labour markets, careers and organizations
• Social stratification and mobility
• Education and skills
• Population studies and social statistics
• Poverty and social policies

• Labour markets and labour market policy
• Sociological theory
• Relation between economics and sociology
• Cross-national comparative research on the welfare state
• Evolution of labour market and social policies and outcomes in Canada

• Ethnic and race relations
• Immigration
• Public policy analysis
• Survey research and data analysis
• Sociology of Jews
• Canadian Jewish studies
• Sociology of education

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health 

• Prenatal and early life exposures
• Child growth and development
• Social disparities in pregnancy outcomes
• Life-course epidemiology
• Social determinants of health