Profile

France Labrèche has been a researcher in the IRSST’s Chemical and Biological Hazard Prevention research field since 2009. Before joining the Institute, where her work focuses on carcinogens in the workplace, she spent a number of years working in public health, always in the field of occupational health. Since 1996, she began concentrating on lung diseases and occupational cancers.

• Team: Research department
• Research field: Chemical and Biological Hazard Prevention

Expertise

• Epidemiological studies
• Carcinogens and occupational cancers
• Occupational lung diseases
• Retrospective assessment of occupational exposure
• Asbestos, beryllium, lead, organic solvents, carcinogens

Professional orders and other affiliations

• Clinical Adjunct Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Department, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal
• Affiliate Researcher, Institut de recherche en santé publique de l’Université de Montréal (IRSPUM)
• Affiliate scienties, Occupational Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Care Ontario
• Member of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and its scientific committee Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH)
• Member of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH)