Publications
Read more publications, press releases and policy reports fromÌýMCCHE’s Scientific Director and Founding Chair, Laurette Dubé, Professor of Marketing at the Desautels Faculty of Management.
Pulse Innovation Platform
Launched on the occasion of the International Year of Pulses 2016, PIP is an open invitation forum where members network and connect to identify bottlenecks hindering innovation, and develop solutions beyond what individual members can achieve alone.
Queen Elizabeth Scholars
The QES program at McGill University is a network of interdisciplinary, solution-oriented researchers to improve the livelihoods and food and nutrition security of adolescent girls and women farmers in rural Ghana.
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Manulife Prize
TheÌýManulife PrizeÌýfor the Promotion of Active Health, was offered by McGill University to a Canadian academic whose research contributed to understanding how factors such as physical activity, nutrition, fitness, or psychosocial context can influence personal health and well-being. Learn more about the Manulife Prize
Research pillars
The Whole-of-Society (WoS) Model of Health and Economic Convergence
This research examines the causes and solutions at the nexus of health, disease, and their many dynamic and interdependent agro-ecological, social, industrial, and economic determinants. These factors operate on multiple scales, such as; households, regional, province/state, country and international. This line of work aims to harness the full capacity of digital technologies, Big Data and computational systems sciences to establish much needed information bridges to guide sectoral and cross-sectoral practices, policies, system design, and innovation.
The WoS framework recognizes that most of the policy and innovation levers for the prevention and control of obesity, NCDs, and diet-related health conditions lie outside the formal health system in sectors such as agriculture, food, transportation, education and media. As a result, sophisticated strategies involving agricultural and trade policies, supply/value chain management, education and the health systems are needed to develop change.
Brain-to-Society Choice Model for Physical and Mental Health
Despite progress made in understanding the interactions between environment and genetics to define the level of risk of neurobehavioral diseases, there is aÌýneed to better understand the nature of choice and behaviour related to their prevention and treatment.
Recent neuroscience research has generated detailed models of the brain circuits involved in reward processing, decision-making and self-control in humans that are highly relevant to understanding maladaptive, motivated behaviours. Neuroscience has typically considered individual components of behaviour one at a time, divorced from the complexity of the social and physical environment that is obviously important in real life. Thus, there are important gaps in what we know, and what we need to know to move from theÌýlaboratory to real world behavior.
The overarching goal of the Brain-to-Society (BtS) research program at MCCHE is to develop and articulate a transdisciplinary and translational framework, anchored into decision neuroscience and behavioral economics, to improve what individuals and society can do to achieve betterÌýphysical and mental health.
The Complex Collaboration Model of Business Engagement and Cross-Sector Partnership
Our Complex Collaboration model begins with a firm understanding that operating practices in the private sector are designed to enhance competitiveness and economic conditions of business. Change in health behaviors by this sector must account for these motivations. Solving societal challenges requires collaboration across disciplinary boundaries and involves diverse groups and societal sectors. The process is not well understood and requires new ways of organization andÌýresearch to solve stubborn society-wide health problems.
The focus of this research pillar is on the interfaces between business with community, governments and other actors in agriculture, food, health, and healthcare systems. Research examines design, management and governance processes of this complex collaboration that impact the economic sustainability of these sectors and our ability to prevent and control nutrition and health problems in both the general population and in the most underserved communities.
MCCHE News
Tata Consultancy Services to grow AI and analytics capabilities in Montreal
Published: 22 Mar 2024BCom alum’s paper on the financial literacy of immigrants an FCAC finalist
Published: 27 Nov 2023Delve: AI-griculture, A High-Tech Approach to Decarbonizing Agricultural Food Supply Chains
Published: 20 Apr 2023McGill-led MiXR platform will connect Canada’s food and beverage sector
Published: 29 Mar 2023COVID-19 pandemic creates new opening for innovation in primary care
Published: 12 Nov 2020