Pauline Boinot, M.Sc.

After a bachelor degree in economics at the University of Montreal (Canada, 2002), Pauline leaves for Honduras in order to work as a volunteer in a women studies’ center. During her stay she learns Spanish and gets her passion for Latin America. Then she comes back in Quebec to complete a master degree in international relations at Laval University (Canada, 2005) before leaving for Washington D.C. in order to coordinate a coalition of non governmental organizations for human rights in the Americas. When she comes back to Montreal, she works for the Ministry of Economic development, Innovation and Exportation where she gets familiar to the field of sciences and technologies, scientific popularization as well as research development.

 
At the beginning of 2007, Pauline decides to move to Peru where she will have the opportunity to work for the Ministry of Education. She finally gets back to Montreal during the summer of 2008. She will first work in the private sector before joining Hinnovic’s team where she can get back to her interest for scientific popularizations.

   Geneviève Daudelin, Ph.D.

After obtaining her B.A. in social work at the University of Quebec at Montreal (Canada 1986) and working as a community activist for several years, Geneviève decided to continue her studies at the University of Montreal, where she earned a M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology. Her Ph.D. thesis (Canada 1998) combined her interest in the social introduction of new procreation technologies with her interest in lay knowledge and action. Her work showed that: 1) lay knowledge of procreation technologies is complex and diverse; 2) the foundation of this lay knowledge is similar to that which structures scientific knowledge; and 3) procreation is often “renaturalized,” even modified, by women using these technologies.

 
In 2002, Geneviève joined Pascale Lehoux at the IRSPUM as a research assistant. Health technologies and lay knowledge continue to be major themes in her research activities.

   Myriam Hivon, Ph.D.

Myriam has a B.Sc. (1988) and a M.Sc. (1990) in social anthropology from the University of Montreal. She completed her Ph.D., again in anthropology, at the University of Cambridge (England 1996), which included 18 months’ of fieldwork in Russia.

 
She returned to Quebec in 1996 and then taught for two years in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Concordia University (Montreal). Realizing she was more interested in research than teaching, she decided to become a contract researcher. After working on a number of different contracts at the Research and Training Centre of the CLSC Côte des Neiges (now the CSSS de la Montagne), she was hired by Dr. Lehoux in 2001 to work on a project related to health technology assessment and knowledge transfer. She has been working with the Institut de recherche en santé publique de l’Université de Montréal ever since.

 
Myriam is principally interested in knowledge transfer and the perspective(s) of health care users.

   Patrick Vachon

After receiving a diploma in mechanical engineering technology (Canada 1990), Patrick spent some time in the field of computer assisted design. But he quickly turned his attention to applied programming in mechanical engineering. It was in this field that he went on to become a programmer, analyst and teacher. He has practiced his profession in Sherbrooke (Quebec), Ottawa (Ontario) and, finally, Chattanooga (Tennessee).

 
After a decade of focusing on programming, Patrick headed back to school for a somewhat radical change in direction – television production. He then worked in post production (editing) for various television series broadcast throughout Quebec by Just for Laughs and the Canal Z and Canal D cable networks.

 
His love for media production and his enduring interest in science lead him to join the HINNOVIC team in 2007.