Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities

Associate Professor, 
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Director, International Research Infrastructure on Social inequalities in health

Founding member, McGill Centre on Population Dynamics

Biography

(PhD, Duke University, 2004; MSc, Université de Montréal, 2000).

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. With funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, she currently studies the impact of public coverage and private health insurance regulation on general and mental health in select OECD countries.

Please see her Google Scholar profile for a list of citations of her work

Research and Supervision Areas

• Social inequalities in health
• Health services research
• Population health
• Social demography
• Policy analysis

Courses Taught

Graduate Seminars

• SOCI 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken PPHS 525.
  • Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2021
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée

Undergraduate Courses

• SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Terms
    • Winter 2022
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée

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