Mylène Riva

Mylène Riva is Associate Professor at McGill University in the Department of Geography. She holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Housing, Community, and Health. She is a health geographer and population health researcher. Her research activities are focused on socio-environmental determinants of health in urban, rural, remote and Indigenous communities. Mylène is particularly interested in housing and communities as important place-based determinants of health and as settings for interventions to improve population health and to reduce inequalities. Current projects look at the intersection between access to energy and health and well-being, as well as climate change adaptations in the community of Tuktoyaktuk. She holds a BSc in Geography and PhD in Public Health and Health Promotion from Université de Montreal. Mylène was a postdoctoral fellow in Health Geography at Durham University in the UK, and held a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at Université Laval. Prior to joining McGill in 2016, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Université Laval and researcher at CHU de Quebec Research Center (2012-2016).