Lise Dassieu

Ph.D. (doctor), Regular member

Principal Interest
Quality of life

Secondary Interest
Comorbidities

Primary Affiliation

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Secondary Affiliation
Centre de recherche de l'Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (HSCM)

Biography

Lise Dassieu is a researcher at the Centre de recherche du CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and associate professor at the École de travail social de l'UQÀM. Trained in health sociology, she conducts interdisciplinary research in social sciences and population health. She specializes in qualitative and participatory research on chronic pain and substance use. She develops her projects in partnership with practice settings and patient partners.
Her research program examines social inequalities in health in terms of access to services, lived experiences and professional practices, with the aim of promoting health equity and improving the care experiences of people living with social inequalities. She holds a PhD in sociology from Université de Toulouse, France (2015), two postdoctoral experiences in population health in Quebec (Université de Sherbrooke and CR-CHUM), as well as experience as a researcher in a pan-Canadian health organization (Canadian Centre on Substance use and Addiction).

What excites you most about your research program or field?

Over the years, I've had many opportunities to work with people with lived experience of chronic pain or other health conditions. Learning alongside them is certainly one of the activities I find most exciting in my work. When people living with pain consider my research useful, it gives meaning to my work as a researcher. Furthermore, if my work can help to deconstruct prejudice and combat the stigmatization of socially marginalized people living with chronic pain, then I consider that I have fulfilled my mission.