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Lara Gautier

Lara Gautier is an assistant professor at University of Montreal’s School of Public Health (ESPUM). With a training background in public health, political science and socioeconomics, she is also an adjunct professor at McGill University in Montreal, and an associate researcher at the Centre Population et Développement in Paris. Her research interests lie at the intersection of implementation science, health policy and systems research (HPSR), and migrant health.
 

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On the resilience of hospital and public health staff facing COVID-19 in Quebec: did we reach a breaking point?

There has been much attention to health systems resilience in recent years – remember that it was the epitome of the 2016 HSR global symposium. Since the arrival of the pandemic, it has become even more prominent and is now increasingly also linked to pandemic preparedness and response. So yes, here’s another editorial on this somewhat glo...

A year on – how community-based workers have strived to provide continuous support to vulnerable migrant populations, in Montreal and around the globe

June 2020, Montreal, Quebec. A community-based organization, Le Pont (in English, ‘The Bridge’) collects and delivers computer goods and food baskets for asylum seekers in the Greater Montreal area. Their goal? Responding to the most pressing needs of this category of vulnerable migrants and making sure they did not become isolated during t...

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One year later… yes, we are still talking about PBF in low- and middle-income countries!

Academic publishers’ timelines are interesting. Exactly a year ago, Paul et al.’s paper received unprecedented attention in the global health stratosphere. Acclaimed by some, criticised by others, the paper certainly sparked much debate on the relevance of performance-based financing (PBF) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This m...

Health in the post-MDG era: what “paradigm shift” are we talking about exactly?

Two weeks ago Kent Buse and Sarah Hawkes, a couple sharing the pursuit of “understanding and social justice” published a commentary on the upcoming SDGs. We find the article very useful in that it provides a good review of how health will be positioned in the post-2015 development era, and more specifically on how a single health goal and re...

BRICS countries’ in the post-2015 health debate: state of play

By Lara Gautier, global health researcher at the Institute of Public Health of Heidelberg University, PhD candidate at Université de Montréal Several scholars, development experts and commentators had great expectations that BRICS become important players of the post-2015 discussions. Given their demographic, economic, and political weight, th...