Erin Strumpf
Team Members
Current Team Members
Erin Strumpf, Professor, McGill University
Erin Strumpf, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University and a founding member of McGill’s Public Policy and Population Health Observatory (3PO). She is affiliated with McGill’s Institute of Health and Social Policy, Family Medicine Department, and Department of Oncology, as well as the Centre on Population Dynamics. From 2019-2022, she was an affiliated researcher with the cancer unit at Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS). Prof. Strumpf holds a PhD in Health Policy and Economics from Harvard University, and a BA from Smith College. She is a William Dawson Scholar at McGill University and previously held Chercheur-boursiers (Junior 1 and 2) from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Santé.
Ella Corkum, BA in Economics, Research Assistant to Dr Erin Strumpf
Ella received her BA in Economics and English Literature from McGill University, where she was Managing Editor for the McGill Journal of Economics. Now, she is a research assistant for Prof. Erin Strumpf and a consultant at Charm Economics. Her research areas include the effects of cannabis policy and representation within Economics departments.
Laura Davis, PhD(c) in Epidemiology
Laura is a PhD candidate studying Epidemiology in McGill's department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, under the supervision of Prof. Erin Strumpf. Laura received her MSc from Queen's University and has worked as a research coordinator in cancer epidemiology using administrative databases to examine cancer outcomes. She is interested in social determinants of health, specifically the health of vulnerable populations and access to cancer treatment, consultation and primary care. She hopes to expand these interests and examine how social policies impact access to cancer care among vulnerable populations.
Julia Heron, MSc(c) in Epidemiology
Julia is a third-year medical resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at McGill.
She is completing a master’s in epidemiology as part of her residency training. Prior to pursuing her medical studies at McGill, she obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the Université de Montréal, which first ignited her passion for public policy. In the future, she hopes to use her public health practice to empower and improve the health of communities. Her research with Prof. Strumpf will focus on the social determinants of health related to melanoma incidence and diagnosis.
Raphaël Langevin, PhD(c) in Economics
Raphaël Langevin is a Ph.D. student in economics at McGill University. Native of Quebec City, Raphaël graduated with a master’s degree in economics at Université Laval. He currently works as a research assistant at the Institut national d’excellence en santé et services sociaux (INESSS) and is also a researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques (IRIS), a non-profit independent research organization based in Montreal, Canada. His research interests are mainly focused on methodological developments related to the analysis of administrative databases with applications to public policy evaluation. More specifically, he is principally interested in the construction of estimators that could improve the incorporation of unobserved confounding variables in longitudinal administrative data analysis. Such developments have multiple applications concerning the modeling of healthcare expenditures and medical resources consumption over time.
Noah Merali, BA, is a junior researcher who joined Prof. Erin Strumpf’s team in 2022. Noah assists Prof. Strumpf on the Prehospital Risk-Estimation During Initial Call-Taking (PREDICT) project where he researches cost analysis and program evaluation. Noah is interested in the economics of emergency healthcare, specifically the ways we can improve triage efficiency and effectiveness through new technology. Noah is also passionate about the experience of QTBIPOC in accessing healthcare and the ways we can better address the historic and ongoing mistreatment of minorities. Noah obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Classical Studies from McGill University in 2022.
Tiffanie Perrault, Ph. D in Economics, Postdoctoral Researcher
Tiffanie Perrault, PhD, joined Prof. Erin Strumpf’s team in 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher to work on the economics of cancer care. She investigates the effects of cancer on households’ labor outcomes and how these effects differ across socio-economic groups in Canada. Understanding how cancer affects families' labor supply and earnings can help assess its indirect costs and design informed health and welfare policies.
More broadly, her research applies — theoretical and empirical — Microeconomics and Industrial Organization to answer Public Economics and Health questions. Most of her other work focuses on the determinants of consumer preferences for cannabis and their implications with regards to legalization and market regulation.
Dr Perrault obtained her PhD in Economics from Université de Montréal and a MSc in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (France).
Samia Qureshi, PhD(c) in Epidemiology
Samia Qureshi is a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at McGill University. Under the supervision of Dr. Erin Strumpf, she is leading a thesis project that aims to identify components in Quebec’s healthcare system that demarcate quality and equity of care for colorectal cancer. Her interest in cancer research stems from her past epidemiological and clinical cancer research experiences. She has worked on projects evaluating the risk of ovarian cancer in relation to perineal talc exposure, the acceptability of self-sampling tools and social inequalities in cervical cancer screening in Montreal, and the impact of a colorectal cancer screening program in Ontario. She also holds expertise in pan-Canadian clinical trials on treatment of metastatic cancers (i.e. colorectal, lymphoma, and breast) through her prior research coordination work. Her previous employers include the Research Centre of the University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal’s regional public health department, the Quebec – Clinical Research Organization in Cancer (Q-CROC), and Merck & Co. Samia obtained an undergraduate honors degree paired with co-operative education in Biochemistry from Concordia University and a master’s degree in Public Health from McGill University.
Kwasi Tabiri, PhD candidate in Economics
Kwasi Tabiri is a PhD student in Economics at McGill University. He graduated with a master’s degree in Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He currently works as teaching assistant with Prof. Erin Strumpf for Health Economics (ECON 440). Kwasi’s current research interests are in socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes and healthcare utilization in developing country contexts.
Wenmei Tu, PhD Candidate in Economics
Wenmei is a PhD candide in Economics at McGill University under the supervision of Prof. Erin Strumpf. She is interested in policy evaluation, women and child health, early childhood development. She is particularly interested in the effects of social program on women and children’s health and wellbeing. She is currently doing a project on how human capital investments in early childhood at different stages interact with each other to affect children’s health and development. Wenmei obtained her Bachelors degree in Chemistry and Masters degree in Economics from Xiamen University in China.
Former Team Members
Research Assistants:
Mamadou Diop, Julie Fiset-Laniel
Post-doctoral fellows:
Mehdi Ammi (first position: Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University)
Nichole Austin (first position: Assistant Professor, School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University)
Roxane Borgès Da Silva (first position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal)
Daniel Fuller (first position: Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan)
Ruth Lavergne (first position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University)
Doctoral students:
Douglas Barthold, PhD Economics (first position: Post-doctoral fellow, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California)
Bruno Riverin Dêschenes, PhD Epidemiology (first position: Medical School, Université de Sherbrooke)
Claire Godard-Sebillotte, PhD Family Medicine (first position: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Geriatrics, McGill University)
Caroline Emery King, PhD Epidemiology (first position: Biostatistics Consultant, Nova Scotia Health Authority in the Research Methods Unit)
Yang Li, PhD Economics (first position: Assistant Professor, School of Economics, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China )
Phongsack Manivong, PhD Epidemiology (first position: Senior Analyst, Cancer Care Ontario)
Sahar Saeed, PhD Epidemiology (first position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University School of Medicine, Institute for Public Health, Center for Dissemination & Implementation, St. Louis, MO)
Leah Smith, PhD Epidemiology (first position: Epidemiologist, Canadian Cancer Society)
Masters students : Nichole Austin, Shourov Barua, Thomas Charters, Yu-Cheng Chang, Olivia Clement, Natalie Coyle, Mamadou Diop, Catherine Dunkley-Hickin, Julie Heroux, Jia (Jenny) Liu, Doriane Mignon, Tracy Musni, Taylor Rubinato, Yiqin Song, Karine Vallee-Pouliot, Giuseppe Frenda
Undergraduate students: Ariyan Bloomberg, Michael Church Carson, Emma Carver, Zhijin Chai, Jason Gauthier, Jean-Philippe Garant, Archan Hazra, William Hisey, Chloé Hogg, Nazli Inay, Jeeventh Kaur, Reyhaneh Keshmiri, Émile Lachance, Mary MacLennan, Julia McGarry, Jordan Menzin, Justin Sebok, Marwa Wazzi, Blanche Cartier, Julia Zimmer