Assistant professor:
Depts of Medicine and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
McGill University
Research
Interest: Keywords:
Cancer Epidemiology; Epidemiology; Health Services;
Infectious Disease; Molecular Epidemiology; Native
Health; Public Health;
Screening/Prevention; Tuberculosis
Dr.
Brassard’s
area of expertises includes infectious diseases
control mainly tuberculosis and Aboriginal
health. The
main
tools used to perform this research are surveillance
data, epidemiologic investigations and molecular
epidemiology.
His main research
aims to define the natural history of the human papillomavirus
infection in Inuit women from Nunavik, Quebec. He
is also looking into the transmission of tuberculosis
in Quebec using molecular markers, human genealogy
and historical geography techniques.
He has also developed
other research interests such as antibiotic use in
the primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart
disease and stroke.
Biosketch:
Dr.
Brassard is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Medicine
and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University.
He is a specialist in community and preventive medicine
and is involved in clinical activities both at the Montreal
Chest Institute and the Royal Victoria Hospital as a
public
health /epidemiologist infectious disease control physician.
He is also a consulting physician at the infectious
diseases
control unit of the Montreal regional health board.
Since
joining the Division of clinical epidemiology of
the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
in 1998 he has been successful in obtaining grants from
CIHR and FRSQ as well as a new Investigator career
award
from the CIHR. He has created a network of collaborators
from McGill and Université de Montréal
that span many aspects of epidemiological research
in infectious
diseases.
Dr. Brassard
is an active Member of the Réseau FRSQ in
Prescription Drug Users, Respiratory Diseases and
AIDS/Infectious Diseases.
