Dr. Joelle LeMoult receives a 2018 MSFHR Scholar Award – Women's Health Research Institute

Existing research on adolescent depression typically studies risk factors in isolation, which Dr. LeMoult proposes may be the reason that only 20% of individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) receive adequate treatment. To address this gap, she will take an integrative approach to research, considering multiple cognitive, emotional, and biological variables that might predict depression in adolescents transitioning into high school.

Dr. LeMoult will mobilize the results of her work through a variety of Knowledge Translation (KT) activities, including a website disseminating study findings created in collaboration with primary research users. This KT work is intended to reach youth at risk for MDD and their families, as well as clinicians and policy-makers to provide better support through this transition period, identify risk factors of MDD, and mitigate those risks.

Read the full award announcement here.

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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