Elysée Nouvet, PhD
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship (McMaster University)
- PhD (York University)
- MA (Concordia University)
- MA (Goldsmiths College; University of London)
Graduate Program Supervision
Research In Profile
Professor Elysée Nouvet is a medical anthropologist whose work is united by commitment to bringing the lived experiences of those on the receiving end of initiatives developed in the name of health equity and humanity to bear on understandings and assessments of the value, limits, and impacts of those initiatives.
Her doctoral work (2011, York University) focused on the social determinants, expression, and impacts of pain and distress in a Nicaraguan shanty. Since then, she has developed and co-led research on perceptions and moral experiences of short-term medical missions in Central America, end-of-life care in Canadian hospitals, clinical trials during the West-Africa Ebola epidemic, and palliative care in disasters and public health emergencies.
Professor Nouvet is currently engaged in several research projects. Her primary program of research is funded by the Rapid Research Fund for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks initiative, funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Her research within this initiative, “Strengthening the Ethics of Ebola Clinical Research with and for Limited Literacy Participants in Ebola Affected Countries”, aims to support the ethical conduct of research in Ebola-affected countries and more specifically meaningful community engagement with limited literacy stakeholders approached for clinical trials in the context of public health emergencies. This is a participatory project that involves close collaboration with the Health Research Ethics Committee of Guinea, ALIMA, Pandora ID-Net, the Biomedical Research Institute of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sierra Leone Association of Ebola Survivors (SLAES), the Kikwit Ebola Survivors Association, and the Network of Ebola Survivors’ Association of Guinea (RENASEG). The series of ‘tools’ being produced through this project will be available open-access beginning in autumn 2020.
Since her appointment at Western, professor Nouvet also has been funded by the Wellcome Trust/Save the Children/DFID R2HC (Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises) program and the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada (Project grant and Partnership Development Grants), and she currently is PI on a CIHR ethics project entitled “Beyond Ideals: Consent and Compensation in Global Health Research.”
Featured Publications and Projects
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Wallace, L.J., Nouvet, E., Bortolussi, R. et al. COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: impacts on vulnerable populations and sustaining home-grown solutions. Can J Public Health (2020). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-020-00399-y
- Jeyabalan, V.; Nouvet, E.; Meier, P.; Donelle, L. Context-Specific Challenges, Opportunities, and Ethics of Drones for Healthcare Delivery in the Eyes of Program Managers and Field Staff: A Multi-Site Qualitative Study. Drones 2020, 4, 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones4030044
- Hiebert B, E Nouvet, V Jeyabalan, L Donelle. The Application of Drones in Healthcare and Health-Related Services in North America: A Scoping Review. Drones. 4, 0030. doi:10.3390/drones403003
- Nouvet E, Knoblauch AM, Passe I, Andriamiadanarivo A, Ravelona M, Ramtariharisoa FA, Razafimdriana K, Wright P, McKinney J, Small P, Rakotosamimanana N, Grandjean Lapierre P."Perceptions of drones, digital adherence monitoring technologies and educational videos for tuberculosis control in remote Madagascar: a mixed-method study protocol." BMJ Open 2019, 9:e028073. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028073. DOI: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/5/e028073
- Escobia F, Nouvet E. Ebola virus disease and and comes to palliative care in humanitarian crises. The Lancet. 2019, 393(101076):1100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30295-8
- Gailits N, Maathias K, Nouvet E, Pillai P, Schwartz L. Women's Freedom of Movement and Participation in Psychosocial Support Groups: Qualitative Study in Northern India. BMC Public Health 2019, 19(725): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7019-3
- Nouvet E; Sinding C; Graham C; Vengris J A Fudge Schormans; A Fullwood; M Skeene. “What are you (un)doing with that story?” Qualitative Social Work: 2019, 18(3):514-529. DOI: 10.1177/1473325017735884.
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Current Grants and Research Projects
- Strengthening the ethics of clinical research with and for limited literacy adults in Ebola affected countries
- Perceptions and moral experiences of research during the 2014-15 Ebola crisis
- Perceptions of a drone-mediated tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment program in remote Madagascar
- Beyond ideals: Consent and compensation in global health research
Featured Graduate Student Projects
Visit Scholarship@Western for a list of completed student theses and dissertations in the repository.
Graduate Student Opportunities
Please contact professor Nouvet at enouvet@uwo.ca for more information.
Additional Information
Academic Appointments and Research Affiliations
- McMaster University: Department of Health Evidence, Methods, and Impact
