Looking for students or interns
Areas of expertise
Health inequalities , Health policy evaluation , Population Health , Social determinants of health , Social epidemiology , Social Network Analysis
- Full-time professor
E-mail
marta.rado@inrs.ca
Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre
385 Sherbrooke Street E.
Montreal, Quebec H2X 1E3
Canada
Research interests
My research focuses on understanding population health and health inequalities using complex methods, such as program evaluation methods and social network analysis methods using administrative data and surveys. More specifically, my current projects aims: (1) to understand inequalities in birth outcomes and health behaviors by disentangling the role of social networks, (2) to find ways to tease out environmental determinants of fertility and health beyond genetic ones, and (3) to evaluate how policy interventions can improve health and decrease health inequalities globally.
- Evaluating the Impacts of Tobacco Control (and Other Policies) on Child Health
- Tackling the Spread of Cigarettes and Alternative Nicotine Products in Social Networks in Sweden
- Does It Take a Village? The Role of Social Networks in Socioeconomic Fertility Differentials in Sweden
Doctorate
- Tangbin Chen – Social networks and health outcomes (main supervisor; defense scheduled for 2027)
- Balram Rai – Fine spatial analysis in epidemiology, with applications to mental health and socioeconomic status (co-supervisor; defense scheduled for 2026)
- Angelo Giosuè Mezzoiuso – Fertility treatments and maternal health (co-supervisor; defense scheduled for 2026)
- Aleksandra Kanina – Prenatal and early life exposures to stress and risks of autism and ADHD (co-supervisor; defense scheduled for 2025)
Master’s students and research assistants
- Lovisa Gunnar – Project on social networks and health behaviors
- Olivia Sage Bannon – Global association between tobacco taxes and socioeconomic inequalities in child health (main supervisor; defense in 2023; currently a doctoral student at Karolinska Institutet)
- Lidija Marija Smertinaite – Democratization and health inequalities among children (main supervisor; defended in 2024)
- Lilla Habsz – Culture of opposition among Roma students using longitudinal social network analysis (main supervisor; award-winning thesis and article published in a scientific journal, defended in 2018)