Affiliated Researchers

Loubna Belaid is an assistant professor of program evaluation at the École Nationale d’Administration Publique in Montreal, Canada. Her research interests focus on cultural safety and social justice in health programs and policies. She uses participatory approaches to co-design, implement and evaluate health programs with and for Indigenous communities, and racialized and marginalized groups in Canada and East Africa.

Mélodie Briand-Lamarche is an organizational consultant and team leader in ENAP’s Consulting Services department. She holds a doctorate in psychology from the Université de Montréal. For over 15 years, she has been dedicated to promoting the use of science and evidence in public management decision-making and practice. In addition to research on the implementation and impact of various science mobilization strategies, she has carried out a wide range of consulting mandates, from program evaluation and benchmarking to strategic intelligence and training design.

Mélanie Bourassa Forcier (Fellow CIRANO) is a full professor at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP). Previously, she was a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke’s Faculty of Law, where she directed the Law and Health Policy programs (both professional and research programs). She is particularly interested in the role of law in the performance of healthcare systems and in the development and integration of innovative practices and technological innovations in healthcare.

Pre Bourassa Forcier has edited and published numerous books and articles on pharmaceutical regulation and health law. She served as vice-chair and member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board from 2019 to 2022, on secondment as Ethics and Regulatory Commissioner for the Commissioner of Health and Welfare, and as a member of the Commission de l’éthique en science et en technologie.

She holds a doctorate in law from McGill University, an M.Sc. in international health policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an LL.L. (summa cum laude) from the University of Ottawa. She has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, including a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonwealth Scholarship.

Florence Larocque holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and has been a professor at ENAP (École nationale d’administration publique) since 2020, where she teaches public policy analysis and research and data analysis methods. Her research interests include public and social policy, drinking water services, the environment, policy dissemination, multi-level governance and citizen participation. Some of her work addresses Aboriginal issues, including the special issue entitled “Dealing with Difficult Pasts: Memory, History and Ethics / Et après? Mémoire, histoire et éthique pour faire face au passé” which she co-edited with Anne-Marie Reynaud (published in Les Ateliers de l’Éthique/The Ethics Forum) and the chapter “Kelowna’s Uneven Legacy: Aboriginal Poverty and Multilevel Governance in Canada” co-authored with Alain Noël (published in a collective work edited by Martin Papillon and André Juneau). She is pursuing research on citizen mobilizations for drinking water in South America.

Stéphane Paquin (PhD Sciences Po Paris) is a full professor of public policy and international political economy at the École nationale d’administration publique. He holds the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership at UQTR, in collaboration with ENAP, and is director of the Groupe de recherche et d’études sur l’international et le Québec (GERIQ). He is co-director and founder of the “Politique mondiale” collection at the Presses de l’Université de Montréal, and co-director of the “Référence” collection at the Presses de la société québécoise de droit international.

Stéphane Roussel is a full professor at the École nationale d’Administration publique (ENAP). His work focuses mainly on Canadian security policy, with particular reference to the Arctic, and on the strategic culture of Canadian society. He has also acquired expertise in military history and theories of international relations. His most recent book is Politique internationale et défense au Canada et au Québec, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2023, 2nd ed. with Kim Richard Nossal and Stéphane Paquin.