/spgh/taxonomy/term/155/all en /spgh/channels/news/quartiers-vulnerables-les-initiatives-de-proximite-au-coeur-de-la-solution-la-presse-february-21-337965 <p>Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is among the experts quoted by <em>La Presse.</em></p> <p style="margin-left:40px"><em>"</em>Une récente étude à laquelle a participé l’Université ƻ����Ժ montre d’ailleurs que dans 16 grandes villes canadiennes, dont Montréal, 50 % des cas de COVID-19 se sont concentrés dans des zones regroupant moins de 21 % à 35 % de la population.</p> Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:29:21 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1234 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/les-couches-sociales-defavorisees-ont-ete-plus-durement-touchees-par-la-covid-19-radio-canada-337835 <p>A study led by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is featured by <em>Radio-Canada.</em></p> <p style="margin-left:40px"><em>"</em>Nous nous attendions en quelque sorte à voir ce schéma, d'après ce que nous avons vu sur le terrain et d'après les rapports des unités de santé publique locales, a présenté l'auteur principal de l'étude, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, professeur adjoint au département d'épidémiologie, de biostatistique et de santé au travail de l'Université ƻ����Ժ à Montréal."</p> Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:34:40 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1218 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/communities-low-incomes-immigrants-essential-workers-hardest-hit-covid-19-study-cbc-february-15-2022-337832 <p>A study led by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is featured by <em>CBC News. </em>Professor Maheu-Giroux also commented on the study.</p> Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:08:45 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1216 at /spgh /spgh/article/prioritizing-supports-specific-neighbourhoods-key-curbing-covid-19-transmission <p>The COVID-19 pandemic has uneven impacts across cities and provinces, with some regions struggling more than others. A new study shows hotspots of COVID-19 infections across Canadian cities are linked to occupation, income, housing, and markers for structural racism.</p> Fri, 25 Feb 2022 22:37:59 +0000 Shirley Cardenas, ƻ����Ժ Newsroom 1237 at /spgh /spgh/article/men-who-paid-sex-more-likely-live-hiv <p>Twenty years’ worth of surveys suggest that nearly one in ten sexually active men in 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been clients of sex workers. These men are about 50 percent more likely to be living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of international researchers, including <a href="/epi-biostat-occh/mathieu-maheu-giroux">Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux</a> and Caroline Hodgins of ƻ����Ժ.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:23:49 +0000 Shirley Cardenas, ƻ����Ժ Newsroom 1176 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/un-nombre-de-cas-de-covid-19-difficile-quantifier-le-devoir-december-28-2021-335993 <p>Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is among the experts quoted by <em>Le Devoir.</em></p> <p style="margin-left:40px">"La responsabilité revient maintenant aux individus de juguler la transmission, note Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, épidémiologiste à l’Université ƻ����Ժ. « Si les gens utilisent les tests rapides et appellent eux-mêmes leurs contacts si positifs, c’est du traçage. Et ça peut aider à réduire la transmission. »"</p> Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:29:54 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 1113 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/war-among-covid-19-variants-playing-out-quebec-montreal-gazette-april-23-2021-330734 <p>Dr. Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is among the experts quoted by the Montreal Gazette.</p> <p style="margin-left:40px">"In Quebec, biological warfare is being waged among a handful of COVID-19 variants in an ongoing battle for supremacy. By the end of this month, the more transmissible new variants of the original strain of COVID-19 will have won, accounting for 91 per cent of all COVID-19 transmissions, according to estimates of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ)."</p> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:18:53 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 755 at /spgh /spgh/channels/news/le-quebec-joue-t-il-avec-le-feu-en-deconfinant-le-devoir-march-27-2021-330061 <p>Dr. Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, is among the experts quoted in this Le Devoir article.</p> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:54:54 +0000 stephanie.laroche-pierre@mcgill.ca 739 at /spgh /spgh/article/mathieu-maheu-giroux-shares-scientist-year-prize-2020 <div> <p><a href="/popcentre/people-0/associate-members-0/mathieu-maheu-giroux" target="_blank">Mathieu Maheu-Giroux</a>, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, has been named one of four co-winners of Radio-Canada’s Scientist of the Year prize for 2020. The prize was shared between four Canadian researchers doing data modelling work that has “supported, informed and guided decision-making by public-health bodies and governments relative to management of the COVID-19 pandemic response.”</p></div> Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:11:56 +0000 ƻ����Ժ Reporter Staff 691 at /spgh