Louise Potvin

Louise Potvin is currently professor of health promotion at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal. She is the Scientific Director of the Centre de recherche en santé publique. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Community Approaches and Health Inequalities. She is known as a founder and pioneer of Population Health Intervention Research, a domain of scientific research that seeks to develop a cumulative body of knowledge on public health interventions, their planning, implementation, scaling up and sustainability. She is also a leading figure in health promotion research, more specifically through her work on the role of local environments in health inequality and local intersectoral action. In addition to having edited and co-edited 11 books and 13 supplements in major scientific journals, she has published close to 400 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, editorials and comments. She has served on numerous research organisation’s scientific boards in Canada and in Europe, including Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Public Health (2014-2023). She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She received the 2017 Pierre-Dansereau Award from the Association canadienne française pour l’avancement des sciences (ACFAS), the 2019 Canadian Institute of Health Research - Institute of Public and Population Health, Trailblazer Award and the 2021 R.D. Defries Award from the Canadian Public Health Association for outstanding contributions in the field of public health.