Marie-Claude Couture

Marie-Claude Couture, associate professor, health professions department chair, and epidemiologist, has more than fifteen years of experience leading public health studies in national and international settings, including Haiti, Cambodia, Ghana, Thailand, and the Ivory Coast. She built a solid academic background in epidemiology and public health with research interests in substance use, infectious diseases, vaccination, victimization and violence, and social determinants of health in diverse, underserved and marginalized populations. Marie-Claude has been principal investigator, co-investigator, and collaborator on several research projects with interdisciplinary teams from academia, government, and the community. She is an author of more than thirty-five peer-reviewed articles and has had presentations at different national and international scientific meetings.

• Epidemiology
• Data analysis
• Mixed methods research
• Geospatial ecological momentary assessment
• Survey methods

• Substance use and mental health
• Infectious disease transmission and vaccination
• Violence and victimization
• Social determinants of health
• Digital health

• Chair, Health Professions Department, SONHP
• Member, Faculty Development Committee, SONHP
• Member, Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence (CRASE)
• Member, MPH Program Admission Committee, SONHP

• Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, PhD in Public Health, epidemiology
• McGill University, Montreal, Canada, MSc, Masters in Biochemistry, molecular biology
• Université Laval Quebec, Canada, BSc, Bachelor in Microbiology

• Epidemiology Research Fellow, University of California San Francisco, Institute for Global Health Sciences
• Epidemiology and Microbiology Consultant, Centre de Coopération International en Santé et Développement, Quebec, Canada

• Young Investigator Travel Award, International Conference on Global Health, 2013
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2009
• Doctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2006

• Couture MC, L’Engle KL, Swathi PA, Regan AK. COVID-19 vaccine coverage among college students following vaccine mandates. (2023) J Am Coll Health. Jan 9:1-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36624974.
  Couture MC, Walicek L, L’Engle KL, Regan A. High engagement in nonpharmaceutical interventions and their associations with reduced COVID-19 disease among US college students. (2023) BMC Public Health. May 26;23(1):971. PMID: 37237362; PMCID: PMC10214357.
• Couture MC, Kang JE*, Hemenway D, Grinshteyn E. Associations between having been threatened or injured with a weapon and substance use and mental health among high school students in the United States. (2021) Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. Dec 19:1-10. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34923925.
• Evans JL, Couture MC, Carrico AW, Stein ES, Sokunny M, Maly P, Len A, Ngak S, Sophal C, Neak Y, Maher L, Page K. (2021) Joint effects of alcohol and stimulant use disorders on sexually transmitted infection in a prospective study of Cambodian female women entertainment and sex workers. Int J HIV/AIDS. 956462420964647. Epub ahead of print.
• Couture MC, Garcia D, Whaley R*, Grinshteyn E. Effect of fear of victimization on hazardous alcohol drinking, tobacco, and marijuana use among university students: A tale of two sexes. (2020) Addict Behav. 2020;106:106355.

* Student co-author