Group Members

The Presseau Group is multidisciplinary team of research staff and trainees focused on rigorously drawing from - and contributing to - behavioural and implementation science to support the health and well-being of patients, the public, and supporting health providers in the health care system to provide high quality care. We do so in partnership with interest holders including patients, people with lived experience and health system decision makers and health providers, and with a strong commitment to equity-focused research.

Our team draws upon multiple methodological approaches (e.g., evidence syntheses, qualitative methods, priority-setting methods, surveys, and randomized trials), spanning a number of different clinical areas including chronic disease, blood and tissue, infectious diseases and personalized health. Further, we are committed to developing theory, methods and evidence in conceptually novel areas including building and rebuilding trust, the effectiveness of implementation intentions for behaviour change, strategies for addressing mis/disinformation, understanding and supporting sustained change, and moving from single to multiple behaviour change approaches.

We support multidisciplinary training opportunities including undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral supervision through affiliations with the University of Ottawa School of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Psychology, as well summer studentships and practicum placements.

Lab members

Team Leader

Justin Presseau

Justin Presseau

Senior Scientist, Methodological and Implementation Research

Current Members

Dr. Jen Olson, Senior Methodologist

Dr. Jen Olson, Senior Methodologist

Dr. Cole Etherington, Senior Research Associate

Dr. Cole Etherington, Senior Research Associate

Dr. Jacob Crawshaw, Senior Methodologist

Dr. Jacob Crawshaw, Senior Methodologist

Dr. Zack van Allen, Research Associate

Dr. Zack van Allen, Research Associate

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Emily Gibson, Research Coordinator

Chloé Desjardins, Research Coordinator

Chloé Desjardins, Research Coordinator

Mackenzie Dowson, Research Coordinator

Mackenzie Dowson, Research Coordinator

Amelia Palumbo, Research Assistant

Amelia Palumbo, Research Assistant

Dr. Cleo Jui-Hsia Hung, CanHepC-funded PhD Student

Dr. Cleo Jui-Hsia Hung, CanHepC-funded PhD Student

Dr. Manavi Maharshi, Post-doc fellow

Dr. Manavi Maharshi, Post-doc fellow

Ashutosh Upreti, Research Assistant

Ashutosh Upreti, Research Assistant

Megan Bennett, Research Assistant

Megan Bennett, Research Assistant

Stefanie Linklater, Research Program Manager

Stefanie Linklater, Research Program Manager

Monika Szejbach, Research Administrative Assistant

Monika Szejbach, Research Administrative Assistant

- Dr. Zack van Allen (CIHR PhD student, now Research Associate in Department of Family Medicine, uOttawa)
- Dr. Elisabeth Vesnaver (CIHR Health System Impact Post-doc fellow, now Implementation Scientist at PSO/BORN Ontario and CIHR HSI Embedded Early Career Researcher)
- Dr. Guillaume Fontaine (CIHR Banting Post-doc fellow, now Assistant Professor at McGill)
- Dr. Nicola McCleary (post-doc fellow, now Implementation Scientist at SickKids)
- Dr. Gail McMillan (Senior Methodologist, now at NHS Scotland)
- Tori Langmuir (Research Assistant, now graduate student in clinical psychology at Concordia University)
- Snimer Nagi (undergraduate thesis student, now graduate student at uOttawa)
- Dr. Valerie Umaefulam (Research Associate, now at University of Manitoba)
- Gisell Castillo (Research Coordinator, now at CAMH)
- Mackenzie Wilson (Research Coordinator, now at PHAC)
- Jana Galley (practicum student 2022, now graduate student at UofT)
- John Bonnell (MSc student 2020 – now medical student at University of Toronto)
- Cathryn Espadero (graduate practicum student - 2022)
- Mackenzie Dowson (graduate practicum student - 2022)
- Kristina Michaliszyn (undergraduate thesis student - 2020
- Amelia Palumbo (undergraduate practicum student - 2019)
- Emily Magel (undergraduate thesis student - 2018)
- Isabelle Perkins (undergraduate practicum student - 2018)
- Dominic Rowe (undergraduate thesis student - 2018)
- Daud Zeb (undergraduate thesis student - 2018)
- Anna Fedotova (undergraduate practicum student - 2017)