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Lucie Richard

MA

Adjunct Scientist

Urban and Community Health Pillar

Bio

Lucie Richard is a health geographer and health services researcher with expertise in leveraging primary, secondary, and integrated data sources to pull actionable, quantitative insights about the health and healthcare needs of marginalized populations, especially people experiencing homelessness. She’s developed novel methods to extract insights, for example in leading the development and validation of a method to identify homelessness within health administrative data, or leading the creation of a method combining PCR and repeated serologic assay data to more comprehensively identify COVID-19 re-infections.

Drawing on administrative data repositories like ICES, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centres, Lucie aims to demonstrate the value of low-burden, cost-effective approaches to generating some types of insights, while at the same time advocating for improving data quality in these sources. Her work has informed public health policies and interventions in Ontario to mitigate well-documented health disparities among people experiencing homelessness, such as early access to COVID-19 vaccination and improved winter service planning.

Research Appointment: Adjunct Scientist