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Marc Renaud has served as president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council since 1997. After a BA in classical studies at Collège St-Viateur, and BSc and MA degrees in sociology at Université de Montréal, he completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1975 to 1997, he taught in the department of sociology at the Université de Montréal, where he supervised numerous master’s and doctoral students and conducted wide-ranging research in the sociology of health. As a natural extension of his work on the social determinants of health, health policy and the social impacts of new medical technologies, Dr. Renaud founded and, from 1984 to 1991 directed, the Université de Montréal’s Groupe de recherche sur les aspects sociaux de la santé et de la prévention (GRASP), a multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of the social aspects of health and preventative medicine. He is the author of six books and more than 60 articles in French, English and Spanish. He served on the Québec Commission on Health and Social Services (1986-88) and on the National Forum on Health (1994-96). A Webster Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 1993 to 1997, Dr. Renaud has also served as president of the Conseil québécois de la recherche sociale (1991-97), vice-president of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and both vice-president and president of the International Association of Health Policy (1994-98). Among other awards and honours, Dr. Renaud was elected to the Royal Society of Canada (1992) and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa (2000).

Dr. Renaud has long stood out as a passionate advocate of the social, cultural, intellectual and economic importance of humanities and social science research. In addition to making substantial contributions to the transformation of the Medical Research Council into the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, he serves or has served on the boards or steering committees of several important Canadian organizations that support research and research training or that develop policy in these areas. These include the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canada Health Services Research Foundation, Genome Canada, the Trudeau Foundation, Industry Canada’s Science and Technology Industry Portfolio, Environment Canada’s Science and Technology Advisory Board, the Networks of Centres of Excellence, the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics, Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Science and Technology and the Canada Research Chairs Program.

Marc Renaud takes particular pleasure in following the progress of two exceptionally curious and inventive young researchers, his daughter Marie and son Nicolas.

Photo: Martin Lipman

Updated: 3/18/2003 5:36:31 PM