Marie-Claude Rousseau, PhD

Research Interests
  • Epidemiology
  • Asthma and allergic diseases
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes
  • Infectious diseases
  • Inflammatory bowel diseases
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination
  • Environmental exposures
  • Lifestyle
List of research projects

 

marie-claude.rousseau@inrs.ca

INRS website

Affiliations

  • Full Professor (tenured), Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, INRS – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Université du Québec
  • Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University
  • Adjunct Professor, Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal
  • Affiliated researcher, Risks to Health Axis, CHUM Research Centre

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Université de Montréal ’03-’04 (Environmental Epidemiology and Population Health)
  • Ph.D. McGill University ’03 (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
  • M.Sc. McGill University ’98 (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
  • B.Sc. Université du Québec à Montréal ’91 (Biochemistry)

Overview of research program

Since 2005, Professor Rousseau has been leading a research program in epidemiology at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), a university dedicated to graduate level training and research. Her research program is articulated around two main themes:

1) Studying factors that can modulate the immune response and their role on the development of inflammatory, autoimmune, and infectious diseases;

2) Studying lifestyle and environmental exposures in relation to disease risk.

Particularly interested in the long-term non-specific effects of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination used in tuberculosis prevention, she established a research infrastructure using provincial administrative databases. The Quebec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health enables her team to conduct powerful longitudinal studies with several decades of follow-up, large sample sizes, and the strength of population-based data.

Selected committees

  • Scientific Manager, Québec BCG Vaccination Registry, INRS (2005- )
  • Member, Scientific Committee, IXe Congrès International d’Épidémiologie EPITER-ADELF (Association pour le développement de l’épidémiologie de terrain et Association des épidémiologistes de langue française), Quebec, Canada, August 2022 (2019- )
  • Member, Expert Data Users Committee, Institut de la statistique du Québec (2019- )
  • Member (2012-2020) and Vice-President (2015-2018), Research Ethics Committee, INRS
  • Member (2010-2020) and President (2014-2018), Institutional Committee for Animal Protection, INRS
List of all publications