Research Chair
In Francophone Health in Ontario
The Chair is studying the needs of Ontario’s various francophone communities, the capacity of the Ontario health care system to meet these needs, and the impact of language discordance between a health care professional and his or her patient. Finally, this chair is part of a desire to promote interdisciplinary research.
Co-Chair of the Research Chair on Francophone Health in Ontario
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Biography of Dr. Louise Bouchard
Dr. Louise Bouchard is a professor at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies. She has contributed to the development of a pioneering research program on health in official language minority settings. From 2009 to 2014, she obtained substantial research funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) for the development of the Applied Health Research Network for Francophones in Ontario. In 2014, the MOHLTC granted her additional funding to develop a GeoPortal on the health of Francophones in Ontario, a platform for bringing together information on socio-demographic data, health conditions, access to services and minority language health professionals, at different geographic scales. Finally, in 2017, she was awarded a CIHR grant for the development of phase 1 of an Observatoire sociosanitaire de la population francophone en situation minoritaire for collaborative research, knowledge mobilization and transfer. Her work has shed light on the impact of minority status as a determinant of health and quality of services by using different approaches: social epidemiology, conceptual mapping of representations, network analysis, geographic information system and qualitative approaches.