Student success

José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz

Congratulations to José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz for winning the Steinberg Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, from the McGill Global Health program. He will carry out his fellowship with the Institute of Health and Social Policy at McGill University, in collaboration with Arijit Nandi and Mónica Ruiz-Casares.

Congratulations to Nichole Austin! PhD candidate in Epidemiology and CPD trainee, Nichole is the recipient of a Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé doctoral award for her project Causal effects and consequences of reproductive health care restrictions.

Congratulations to Marianne Paul! Doctoral student in Sociology and CPD trainee, Marianne (supervisor: Shelley Clark) is the recipient of a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) doctoral award.

Nichole Austin, Cassandra Cotton, Nicole Denier, Patricia Elungata, James Falconer, Ana Laura Fostik Sanchez, Alissa Koski, Lauren Maxwell, Idrissa Ouili, Robin Richardson, Anaïs Simard-Gendron

The CPD had another stellar graduate student showing at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in Washington D.C. (March 30- April 2). Eleven (11) CPD trainees, students, and affiliate members presented work or were co-authors on work presented at the conference.  See here to view their posters and papers.

April 2016

Congratulations to Helen Cerigo! CPD doctoral student and trainee in Epidemiology, Helen (supervisor: Amélie Quesnel-Vallée) is the recipient of a CIHR Doctoral award from the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships competition (October 2015) for her project Universal health coverage and social inequalities in health: Understanding the impact of barriers and restrictions to health insurance coverage.

Congratulations to Davis Daumler! A member of our very first cohort of CPD trainees to complete the graduate option in population dynamics, Davis graduated with a MA in Sociology. He will be joining the doctoral program at the Sociology Department, University of Michigan (September 2016), with a concentration in social demography and the Population Studies Center, as a predoctoral trainee.

Davis was also the winner of the best presentation award at the Québec Interuniversity Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) annual new researchers conference April 14, 2016, for his paper: Living apart together: Using retrospective relationship histories to predict entry into residential and nonresidential partnerships after experiencing a dissolution.

April 2016

Congratulations to Alissa Koski! Alissa (CPD doctoral student, Epidemiology, supervisor: Arijit Nandi) will be taking up a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in July 2016 with with Dr. Jody Heymann at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center.

Congratulations to James Falconer, CPD doctoral student  has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta with Dr. Lisa Strohschein (Sociology).

jose.nazifmunoz [at] MAIL.MCGILL.CA (José Ignacio Nazif-Muñoz)

Congratulations to Ignacio Nazif, CPD doctoral graduate, who has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship.

Ignacio has also received the Arts Insights Dissertation Award from the Faculty of Arts, McGill University for the best dissertation in the Social Sciences for his dissertation Inequity on the roads: the interplay of global forces on road safety policy diffusion and traffic fatalities and injuries.

February, 2016. Congratulations to Nicole Denier, CPD doctoral student (supervisor: Michael Smith) who will be taking up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Sociology, Colby College in September.

January, 2016. Congratulations to Claudia Masferrer, former CPD doctoral student for her new position as Assistant Professor at the Centro de Estudios Demograficos, Urbanos y Ambientales, El Colegio de México

A June 2015 article of the Atlantic “Unequal pay: the gay wage gap” for their journal article in Gender and Society “Gay pay for straight work: mechanisms generating disadvantage.” Their study further garnered positive media coverage from multiple Canadian and U.S. news media outlets. Global TV news, Montreal Global news, CTV news article, and CTV interview

Tyroler Student Paper Prize, Society for Epidemiologic annual meeting 2015.

The obesity paradox and methods for addressing selection bias in epidemiologic research.

Does it get better? A quasi-cohort analysis of sexual minority wage gaps in Canada

Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Best student presentation, Primary Health Care group, Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR)

Effects of Family Medicine Groups on visits to the emergency department among diabetes patients in Quebec between 2000 and 2011: a population-based segmented regression analysis of an interrupted time series

Best poster prize - Population Association of America annual meeting 2015

Disparities in Health and Access to Health Care among Official-Language Minorities in Québec

CIHR-IPPH Institute Community Support travel award

CIHR-IPPH Institute Community Support travel award

Honourable mention: QICSS New Research Conference

The effects of a change in the point system on immigrants’ characteristics and labour market integration

nicole.denier [at] MAIL.MCGILL.CA (Nicole Denier )andsean.waite [at] MAIL.MCGILL.CA ( Sean Waite)

Best student paper award Canadian Population Society annual meeting.

Gay Pay in Canadian Cities: Local Labour Market Effects on Sexual Minority Earnings Gaps