What We Do
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
Selected Publications
For full list of up-to-date publications, see
Meet the Presseau Group
Current Research Staff
Dr. Jen Olson, Senior Methodologist
Dr. Cole Etherington, Senior Research Associate
Dr. Jacob Crawshaw, Senior Methodologist
Dr. Zack van Allen, p/t/ Research Associate
Emily Gibson, Research Coordinator
Chloé Desjardins, Research Coordinator
Jennifer Tetzlaff, Methodologist
Amelia Palumbo, Research Assistant
Mackenzie Dowson, Research Assistant
Current Trainees
Dr. Cleo Jui-Hsia Hung, CanHepC-funded PhD Student (School of Epidemiology)
Dr. Manavi Maharshi, Post-doc fellow
Research Program Manager: Stefanie Linklater
Research Administrative Assistant: Monika Szejbach
Alumni
Dr. Elisabeth Vesnaver (former CIHR Health System Impact Post-doc fellow, now Implementation Scientist at PSO/BORN Ontario)
Dr. Nicola McCleary (former post-doc fellow, now Implementation Scientist at SickKids)
Dr. Gail McMillan (former Senior Methodologist, now at NHS Scotland)
Tori Langmuir (former Research Assistant, now graduate student in clinical psychology at Concordia University)
Snimer Nagi (former undergraduate thesis student, now graduate student at uOttawa)
Dr. Valerie Umaefulam (former Research Associate, now at University of Manitoba)
Gisell Castillo (former Research Coordinator, now at CAMH)
Mackenzie Wilson (former Research Coordinator, now at PHAC)
Jana Galley (practicum student, now graduate student at UofT)
John Bonnell (MSc student – now medical student at University of Toronto)