Aviane Auguste

Aviane Auguste
Contact Information
Address: 

2001 McGill College, Suite 1200
Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1G1

Email address: 
aviane.auguste [at] mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Dr Aviane Auguste is an Assistant Professor from Saint Lucia at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational health. He graduated from the "Université des Antilles" in (Martinique) with a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Biology. His trainining in Public health and Epidemiology was from the Bordeaux school of Public Health (ISPED, France) and University of Burgundy (France). Dr Auguste completed a Doctoral thesis in 2019 at the "Université de Rennes" (France) on the “Epidemiology of head and neck cancer risk factors in the French West Indies” (Inserm unit 1085- Irset, Guadeloupe). Prior to joining McGill university, he worked as post-doctoral scientist at the Guadeloupe cancer registry (University hospital of Guadeloupe) and most recently at the Gustave Roussy Institute (Inserm unit 1018- CESP, Paris). Dr Auguste is the co-leader of the head and neck cancer working group of the African-Caribbean Cancer Consortium (AC3) which investigates cancer disparities in populations of African descent.

Publications

Areas of expertise: 

Research interests: (1) Investigating the effectiveness of community-based cancer prevention in low-income settings and developing countries ; (2) understanding the unique characteristics of small island health systems (e.g. overseas travel for care) and their impact on outcomes of patients diagnosed with cancer and other chronic illnesses ; (3) Strengthening of health research capacity in low-and-middle income countries.

Group: 
Assistant Professors
Research areas: 
Global Health
Health Services and Health Policy
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Areas of interest: 

Cancer epidemiology;
Cancer screening;
Cancer prevention;
Non-communicable disease risk factors;
Capacity building in health research;
Small island developing states;
Low-and-middle-income countries;

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