Victoria Dorimain is a doctoral research student in health sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her project aims to evaluate the impact of the school context and environment on physical activity and mental health among high school students. Victoria is interested in practice-based research where individuals and communities are stakeholders in approaches and actions aimed at equity, diversity and inclusion in relation to the determinants of health. She also values scientific vulgarization, the development of research skills in primary care and the mobilisation of clinicians with the aim of promoting practice-based research. Victoria holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. She was recently awarded a doctoral scholarship for 2023-2024 from the Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux (IUPLSSS).

She is pursuing her doctoral studies under the co-direction of two professors from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – Université de Sherbrooke: Pr Mathieu Belanger of the Laboratoire d’Investigations sur les Mécanismes et Prédicteurs de liens entre Activités physiques, autres Comportements et Trajectoires de Santé (IMPACTS) and Pre Martine Shareck, Canada Research Chair in Urban Health Equity and Youth and Director of the Équité en santé urbaine laboratory. Pre Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, also co-director, is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing at Université de Laval and a researcher at VITAM – Centre de recherche en santé durable. Congratulations Victoria on your IUPLSSS scholarship, and welcome to the IMPACTS Lab team.