Full Members

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

Sarah Brauner-Otto

(Director)

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

• Geographies of inequality
• International trade
• Foreign investment and regional economic development
• Economic geography
• Globalization

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

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

• Social demography
• Health and aging
• Interplay of biological and social systems in shaping life trajectories and health outcomes
• Social networks and health

• 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

• 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

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

• Immigration
• Race/ethnic relations
• Residential segregation
• Neighborhood effects
• Racial/ethnic health disparities
• Individual- and neighborhood-level determinants of immigrant perinatal health
• Perinatal health and immigrant populations