Manon Simard

MSc

Wildlife Management Director, Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board

Location

Quebec City, Quebec

Keywords

Zoonosis, Arctic, Helminths, Protozoans, Inuit

Research interests

To continue research on zoonotic diseases and other wildlife diseases with a multidisciplinary team which works in a One Health approach. Food safety, disease ecology, epidemiology and risk analysis of diseases and development of diagnostic techniques adapted to remote communities, training and communication of results to the population are subjects of interest. Zoonoses of interest are Trichinellosis, Toxoplasmosis, Giardiasis, Cryptosporidiasis, Diphyllobothriasis, Rabies and Anisakiasis.

Expertise in

Anisakiasis

Cryptosporidiosis

Diphyllobothriasis

Fishes

Food

Giardiasis

Marine Mammals

Northern/Aboriginal Issues

Public Health

Toxoplasmosis

Trichinellosis

Relevant publications

J. Ducrocq, G. Beauchamp, S. Kutz, M. Simard, J. Taillon, S.D. Côté, V. Brodeur, and S. Lair. 2013. Variables associated with Besnoitia tarandi prevalence and cyst density in barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 49(1): 29–38.

E.J. Jenkins, L.J. Castrodale, S.J.C. de Rosemond, B. R. Dixon, S. A. Elmore, K. M. Gesy, E.P. Hoberg, L. Polley, J. M. Schurer, M. Simard, R. C. A. Thompson. 2013. Tradition and Transition: Parasitic Zoonoses of People and Animals in Alaska, Northern Canada, and Greenland. In: Rollinson, D. (Ed.), Advances in Parasitology, Academic Press, pp. 33–204.

S. Owens, P. De Wals, G. Egeland, C. Furgal, Y Mao, G.Y. Minuk, P.A. Peters, M. Simard, E. Dewailly. 2012. Public health in the Canadian Arctic: contributions from the International polar Year research. Climatic Change, 115 (1): 250-281.

E. L. Pufall, A. Jones-Bitton, S. A. McEwen, T. M. Brown, V. L. Edge, J. Rokicki, K. Karpiej, A.S. Peregrine, and M. Simard. 2012. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. Prevalence of Zoonotic Anisakid Nematodes in Inuit-Harvested Fish and Mammals from the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Foodborne Pathogen and Disease. doi:10.1089/fpd.2012.1186.

S. Larrat, M. Simard, S. Lair, D. Belanger and J-F Proulx. 2012. From science to action and from action to science: the Nunavik Trichinellosis Prevention Program. Int J Circumpolar Health 2012, 71: 18595. 1-9.

Contact

936 rue des Prairies, apt 213

Québec, QC G1K 8T2

manonsimard@eeyoumarineregion.ca