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JAMES FALCONER, PhD in Sociology
Supervisor: Amelie Quesnel-Vallee       Â
Topic: Disparities in Access to Health Care Among Official-Language Minorities in Quebec
James Falconer is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Sociology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Lethbridge. His research pursuits include social epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative methods, medical sociology, social capital, criminology, deviance, and social control. He has published work on Anglophone health in Québec, and on qualitative participatory-action fieldwork research methods. His dissertation research will investigate the population health impact of changing health care policy in developed countries over the past three decades.
SUMIN NA, PhD in Counselling Psychology
Supervisor: Laurence Kirmayer
Topic: Examining barriers to mental health care among English-speaking ethno-cultural communities in Montreal
Sumin Na is a Doctoral student in Counselling Psychology at McGill. She completed her BA in Psychology at McGill and her Master’s in Clinical Psychology at the University of Victoria. In collaboration with her research supervisor, Dr. Laurence Kirmayer, her doctoral research aims to examine barriers to mental health care among immigrants in Canada. Specifically, she seeks to better understand how mental health literacy, stigma, and cultural mistrust may influence the perceptions of mental health care in Asian immigrant communities. Sumin has also been involved in research projects examining the experiences of racial and religious microaggressions among visible and religious minorities in Montreal. She aspires to work with diverse ethno-cultural communities in Canada as a practicing psychologist, researcher, and social justice advocate.
KATERINA NIKOLITCH, MSc in Psychiatry
Supervisor: Eric Jarvis
Topic: Quality Follow-up in English and Other-language Minorities in a First Episode Psychosis Clinic in Montreal
Katerina Nikolitch is a Psychiatry resident and a M.Sc. student in Transcultural Psychiatry. Her research interests include access to health care for immigrant and Aboriginal minorities, healthcare disparities, suitability for and benefits of psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based approaches. Her clinical work involves the Inuit populations in Nunavik, as well as a variety of visible and language minority patients in Montreal. Her project under IHSP will be looking at the quality of follow-up for Francophones and non-Francophones in a first-episode psychosis clinic in Montreal. Results from this study may help illuminate the importance of language matching in accessing mental health services for populations with severe and persistent mental illness.
NORMA PONZONI, PhD in Educational Psychology
Supervisors: Sean Clarke; Antonia Arnaert
Topic: Understanding the Professional Development Needs of Frontline Nurses Providing care to Anglophone Minorities in Montreal and Northern Quebec
Norma Ponzoni is a Doctoral student in the Department of Education and Counselling Psychology. She has also been a nurse since 1998 and a Nurse Educator since 2002. Her research interest focuses on the training and development of nurses and the integration of technology to facilitate access to continuing education. Her fellowship will focus on the exploration of the professional development needs of frontline nurses providing care to Anglophone minorities in Montreal and Northern Quebec. Prior to her doctoral research, Norma completed her MSc in Nursing at the University of Montreal and her MEd in Education at the University of Sherbrooke.
EMILY YUNG, Masters in Psychiatry
Supervisor: Nancy Low
Topic: The association between language and mental health status in English-speaking young adults in Quebec
Emily Yung is a Masters student in the Department of Psychiatry of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences (honours) from the University of Western Ontario (2012). Her masters research seeks to understand the relationship between childhood adversity and metabolic outcomes in people with depression and bipolar disorder. She joined the Institute of Health and Social Policy in 2014, conducting research examining whether differences exist in both received and perceived mental health care between English- and French-speaking young adults in Quebec. The goals of this project are to understand not only the role of language in mental health outcomes but also the barriers and facilitators of seeking mental health care among young adults. With this research, Emily hopes to be able to inform policy-making and health care systems of the mental health needs critical in young adulthood to ultimately improve outcomes in language-speaking minorities.
