 Research Focus
Dr Brassard is a community medicine physician with graduate training in parasitology and epidemiology. He has been involved with research in the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic since 1979. Areas of expertise include infectious diseases control mainly tuberculosis and Aboriginal health. The main tools used to perform this research are surveillance data, epidemiologic investigations and molecular epidemiology. Main research aims to define the natural history of the human papillomavirus infection in Inuit women from Nunavik, Quebec. Research also looks into the transmission of tuberculosis in Quebec using molecular markers, human genealogy and historical geography techniques.
Keywords:
Aboriginal services, cancer epidemiology, epidemiology, infectious disease, molecular epidemiology, native health, public health, screening/prevention, tuberculosis
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Hamlin-Douglas L*, Coutlee F, Roger M, Franco EL, Brassard P. Prevalence and Age-Distribution of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in a Population of Inuit Women in Nunavik, Quebec. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 2008 (Accepted)
- Brassard P, Anderson KK, Schwartzman K, Macdonald ME, Menzies D. Challenges to Tuberculin Screening and Follow-up in an Urban Aboriginal Sample in Montreal, Canada. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2008; 19: 369-379.
- Brassard P, Anderson KK, Menzies D, Schwartzman K, Macdonald ME. Knowledge and Perceptions of Tuberculosis among a Sample of Urban Aboriginal PeopleJournal of Community Health, 2008 Aug; 33(4):192-8.
- Smeja C, Brassard P. Tuberculosis infection in an Aboriginal (First Nations) population of Canada. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2000; 4(10): 925-30
- Brassard P, Smeja C., Valverde C. Needs assessment for an urban native HIV/AIDS prevention program. AIDS Educ Prevention 1996; 8(4): 343-351.
- Dubois MJ, Brassard P, Smeja C. Survey of Montreal’s Aboriginal population’s knowledge, attitudes and behaviour regarding HIV/AIDS. Can J Pub Hlth 1996;87:37-9.
- Brassard P, Robinson E. Factors associated with glycemia and microvascular complications among James Bay Cree Indian diabetics of Quebec. Arctic Med Res 1995; 54: 116-124.
- Brassard P, Robinson E., Lavallée C. Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus among the James Bay Cree Indians, Quebec, Canada. Can Med Assoc J 1993; 149: 303-307.
- Brassard P., Robinson E., Dumont C. Descriptive Epidemiology of non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the James Bay Cree population of Quebec. Arctic Med Res 1993; 52: 47-54.
- Brassard P., Hoey J., Ismaïl J., and Gosselin F. The prevalence of intestinal parasites and enteropathogenic bacteria in James Bay Cree Indians, Quebec. Can J Pub Hlth 1985; 76: 322-325.
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