Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Professor
Dr. Amélie Quesnel-Vallée holds the Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill University, where she is a Professor with an Arts and Medicine cross-faculty appointment in the Departments of Sociology and of Epidemiology. She is also the founding Director of the McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms, an initiative of the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Family Medicine.
She obtained her MSc at Université de Montréal, and her PhD in Sociology from Duke University. Her research examines the contribution of social policies to social inequalities in health over the life course and received numerous awards from professional associations including the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association and the American Public Health Association. She is also a two-time recipient of the Fulbright Canada Foundation awards (Doctoral fellowship 1999; Distinguished Chair in Quebec Studies, 2020). Her work appeared in a book she co-edited, Le privé dans la santé : Les discours et les faits (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2008), as well as in journals such as the Lancet, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the American Journal of Epidemiology and Social Science and Medicine.
She has consulted for Statistics Canada and Health Canada, and she was a member of Statistic Canada's National Statistics Council. She is a Past-President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Health.