Assistant Professor
(Joint Position with Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine)
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 713
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7

Tel.: 514-398-2758
Fax: 514-398-3403
E-Mail: Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Office: Leacock 814

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• Research Areas
• Biography
• Publications
• Courses Taught
• Current Research Grants
• Other Professional Activities

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Research Areas

Social inequalities in health; lifecourse research; stratification and mobility; population health; quantitative methods (counterfactual account of causality); social demography (reproductive health).

Biography

(PhD, Duke University, 2004; MSc, Université de Montréal, 2000). Assistant Professor, Joint Appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, at McGill University since 2005.

Amélie Quesnel-Vallée is a medical sociologist and a social demographer with postdoctoral training in social epidemiology. Her research examines the contribution of social policies to the development of social inequalities in health over the lifecourse.

She holds a Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec chercheur-boursier Junior 1 (new investigator) award. She also heads the Canada Foundation for Innovation-funded International Research Infrastructure on Social inequalities in health (IRIS).

In 2005, she received the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for her Fulbright and SSHRC-funded doctoral research on status attainment, health insurance and socioeconomic inequalities in health in the U.S. With funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, she currently studies the impact of private health insurance on general and mental health in select OECD countries.

Publications

Books and monographs

Béland, F. A.P. Contandriopoulos, A. Quesnel-Vallée, L. Robert (Eds) (2008) Le privé dans la santé. Les discours et les faits. Presses de l’Université de Montréal : Montréal, Québec.

In refereed journals

Maximova, K and Quesnel-Vallée. (accepted 2008) “Mental Health Consequences of Unintended Childlessness and Unplanned Births: Gender Differences and Life Course Dynamics” Social Science and Medicine . Available online Dec. 26, 2008.

Luchenski, S., Quesnel-Vallée, A. and J. Lynch. 2008. “Differences between women’s and men’s socioeconomic inequalities in health: Longitudinal analysis of the Canadian population, 1994-2003.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 62: 1036-1044.

Quesnel–Vallée, A. 2007. Self-rated health: caught in the crossfire of the quest for ‘true’ health? International Journal of Epidemiology , 36: 1161 - 1164.

Quesnel-Vallée, A. 2007. The state of research on social inequalities in health: building on successes to tackle the next challenges. Special issue on social inequalities in health. Revue d’Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique . 55 (2007) 1–2.

Quesnel-Vallée, A., M. Bourque, C. Fedick, A. Maioni. 2006 “In the aftermath of Chaoulli vs. Quebec: Whose opinion prevailed?” Canadian Medical Association Journal . October 24, 175(9).

DiPrete, T., D. Goux, É. Maurin and A. Quesnel-Vallée. 2006 “Work and Pay in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets: A Generalized Perspective on Institutional Evolution and Inequality Trends in Europe and the U.S.”. Research on Social Stratification and Mobility. 24(3):311-32. (Equal contributions).

Bourque, M. and A. Quesnel-Vallée. 2006 “La contribution des politiques familiales à l’état de santé des parents : une évidence ? ” Lien social et politique . 55.

Quesnel-Vallée, A. 2004 “Is It Really Worse to Have Public Insurance Than to Have No Insurance At All? Health Insurance and Adult Health in the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior . 45(4): 276-292.

Quesnel-Vallée, A. and S. Philip Morgan. 2003. “Missing the target? Correspondence of Fertility Intentions and Behavior in the U.S.” Population Research and Policy Review. Special Issue on Very Low Fertility 22(5-6): 497-525. (Equal contributions).

Published abstracts

Ansari, H., A. Quesnel-Vallée, N. Dendukuri, R. Fuhrer. 2007. Inequities in access to healthcare by income and insurance status: A longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology. 165(Suppl):S16

Quesnel-Vallée, A. and Taylor, M. 2006. “Pathways from parental education to adult trajectories of depressive symptoms”. American Journal of Epidemiology. 163(Suppl):S70

Quesnel-Vallée, A., R. Fuhrer, M.J. Shipley, M. Goldberg and M.G. Marmot. 2005. “Content and Criterion Validity of Self-Rated Health By Gender, Socioeconomic Position, and Country.” American Journal of Epidemiology. 161(Suppl):S134.

Book Chapters

Quesnel-Vallée, A. Health Insurance and Social Inequalities in Health. (2008) Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. Deborah Carr, Robert Crosnoe, Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Hughes, Amy Pienta (Eds). Thomson Gale : Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Béland, F., A. Quesnel-Vallée, A.P. Contandriopoulos, and C. Cambourieu. Les assurances privées en santé : l’exception canadienne? (2008) Béland, F. A.P. Contandriopoulos, A. Quesnel-Vallée, L. Robert (Eds) Le privé dans la santé. Les discours et les faits Presses de l’Université de Montréal : Montréal, Québec.

Bourque, M., A. Quesnel-Vallée. Les inégalités sociales de santé : l’impact de l’assurance-maladie (2008) Béland, F. A.P. Contandriopoulos, A. Quesnel-Vallée, L. Robert (Eds) Le privé dans la santé. Les discours et les faits Presses de l’Université de Montréal : Montréal, Québec.

Quesnel-Vallée, A. and T. Jenkins. Vieillissement et utilisation des soins : comment départager les coûts? (2008) Béland, F. A.P. Contandriopoulos, A. Quesnel-Vallée, L. Robert (Eds) Le privé dans la santé. Les discours et les faits Presses de l’Université de Montréal : Montréal, Québec.

Quesnel-Vallée, A. and L. Soderstrom. Le défi démographique du vieillissement : une menace pour le financement des services de santé? (2008) Béland, F. A.P. Contandriopoulos, A. Quesnel-Vallée, L. Robert (Eds) Le privé dans la santé. Les discours et les faits Presses de l’Université de Montréal : Montréal, Québec.

Bourque, M. et A. Quesnel-Vallée (2008) La contribution des systèmes de santé aux inégalités sociales de santé. In Gagnon, É, Y. Pelchat and É. Roberson. Politiques d'intégration, rapports d'exclusion. Action publique et justice sociale. Presses de l’Université Laval

Quesnel-Vallée, A. (2008). Que peut nous apprendre l’approche des parcours de vie sur les inégalités sociales et de santé? Les promesses d’une plus grande collaboration entre l’épidémiologie sociale et la sociologie.. In Katherine L. Frohlich, Maria De Koninck, Andrée Demers, Paul Bernard (eds.) Recueil sur les inégalités sociales de santé. Presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Courses Taught

Graduate Seminars:
SOCI 525: Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective

Undergraduate Courses:
SOCI 309: Health and Illness

Current Research Grants

2006-2007. Réseau de Recherche en Santé des Populations – FRSQ. Support for the organization of the RC28 meeting, August 14-17, 2007, held at McGill and titled Cumulative Advantage: Education, Health, Wealth and Institutional Contexts. PI

2007-2011. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Strategic Knowledge Exchange Cluster on Population change and the life course. Co-applicant (PI: Rod Beaujot; co-applicants: Le Bourdais, C.; Spencer, B.; McQuillan, K.; Bernard, P.; Wu, Z.; McDaniel, S.)

2007-2011. Canada Foundation for Innovation. Leaders Opportunity Fund. International Research Infrastructure on Social inequalities in health (IRIS) PI.

2006-2011 Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement grant. Co-applicant (PI: John Lynch; co-applicants Buckeridge, D.L.; Paradis, G.; Platt, R.W; Berthelot, J.-M.; Fuhrer, R.; Heymann, SJ; Le Bourdais, C.; Meaney, MJ; Ross NA) “Health disparities: Intergenerational dynamics and evidence-based assessment strategies (HD: IDEAS).”

2005-2010 Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Programmatic operating grant (no. MOP 77800). 328,005$ PI (Co-applicants: Bourque, M and Holland, P) “Private health insurance as a contributing factor to socioeconomic inequities in health: Cross-national comparisons of Canada, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.”

Other Professional Activities

Editorships

2006-09 Member, Editorial Board of Recherches Sociographiques

2007- Member, Editorial Board of Demography

2005- Member, Editorial Board of the Revue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique

Granting agencies

2008-09. Member of the evaluation committee for Doctoral fellowships, Fonds de recherche société culture, Québec

2007-08. Invitation to sit as member on the internal Canadian Institutes for Health Research Health Services and Policy Research (HPM) peer-review committee –declined (because of conflict with maternity leave)

2007. Member of the internal evaluation committee, PhD and PostDoctoral fellowships, Programme stratégique de formation en recherche transdisciplinaire en santé publique (SP) et des populations, CIHR and Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du Québec.

2007. Invited member on the internal Canadian Institutes for Health Research Health Services and Policy Research (HPM) peer-review committee

2006, 2007. External referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

2004-07. Canadian Institutes for Health Research Consultative Committee on Official Languages Minority Communities Research

Service to Professional associations

2008 Host and co-organizer (with Melanie Bourque) of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier colloquium “Comprendre le privé en santé”

2008 Host and co-organizer (with Ivy Lynn Bourgeault) of the interim meeting of the Research Committee 15 on Medical Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

2007 Host and organizer of the 2007 Semi-Annual Meeting of the Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

2006 Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal, QC, Canada, August 2006. Member of the local organizing committee / Aging and the Life Course section program committee member / Organizer of the Special Regional Spotlight Session “The Greatest Divide? Health Care in Canada and the United States”.

2006 Organizer of the ACFAS joint disciplines “Public Health and Epidemiology” and “Health and Society” meeting.