Team (management, administration, IT specialist, scientific manager, etc.)
Vissého Adjiwanou
Vissého Adjiwanou is Professor of Demography and Quantitative and Computational Methods in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Demography (Université de Montréal). He is the director of the Research Laboratory on Population Dynamics in Africa and its Diaspora (SSAPOPLAB). He holds a PhD in demography from the University of Montreal (Canada), a master’s degree in statistics from the National School of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA-Côte d’Ivoire), and a master’s degree in development economics from the Center for International Development Studies and Research (CERDI-France). His research focuses on population issues in sub-Saharan Africa and Canada, including family dynamics, reproductive health, and the integration of sub-Saharan African immigrants in Canada. He runs the quantitative methodology laboratory of the Department of Sociology (UQAM).
Members or associate researchers
Vissého Adjiwanou
Vissého Adjiwanou is Professor of Demography and Quantitative and Computational Methods in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Demography (Université de Montréal). He is the director of the Research Laboratory on Population Dynamics in Africa and its Diaspora (SSAPOPLAB). He holds a PhD in demography from the University of Montreal (Canada), a master’s degree in statistics from the National School of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA-Côte d’Ivoire), and a master’s degree in development economics from the Center for International Development Studies and Research (CERDI-France). His research focuses on population issues in sub-Saharan Africa and Canada, including family dynamics, reproductive health, and the integration of sub-Saharan African immigrants in Canada. He runs the quantitative methodology laboratory of the Department of Sociology (UQAM).
Student members
Avelin Peguy Angos
Avelin Peguy Angos is a doctoral student in demography in the Department of Demography at the Université de Montréal. He holds a Master’s degree in demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD-Cameroon). His research focuses on access to basic social services (particularly education and health) for vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa. For his dissertation, he is interested in the effect of foster care on the schooling of foster children (who do not live with their biological parents) but also on the households of origin and reception of these children. Avelin also has experience working in public administration at the Ministry of Economy in her country, Cameroon. This experience has allowed Avelin to be regularly involved in the monitoring and evaluation of population programs, the development and planning of public policies, and the drafting of development strategy documents.
Wendinda Bougma
Student enrolled in the doctoral program in sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He holds a master’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in human and social sciences from the University of Ouagadougou (now Joseph KI-ZERBO University). His master’s thesis focused on the issue of farms and natural resource management. During his master’s degree, he was interested in the issue of premarital maternity of young girls. Currently, the subject of his thesis is remarriage and the dynamics of blended families in sub-Saharan Africa.
Louis De Coster
Louis de Coster has a background in business administration and more specifically in tourism and hospitality management. He completed his master’s degree in marketing with a thesis profile that evaluated the possibility of a difference in satisfaction between tourists and hosts of the city of Montreal on the same cultural activity, the Montreal Jazz Festival. He has worked for major Quebec and Canadian companies such as Loto-Québec, Molson Breweries of Canada and Fido-Rogers as a marketing research manager. Since 2012, he is self-employed in marketing and social research consulting. He has also taught in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies for over twenty years. He is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology where he is analyzing social media and the passage to adulthood in Quebec.
Yao Robert Djogbenou
Yao Robert Djogbenou is a PhD candidate in Demography at the University of Montreal. He holds a master’s degree in Demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD, Cameroon) and a degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from the University of Texas at Austin. His thesis focuses on the use of computational approaches in the study of migration and immigrant integration in Canada. His research interests also include issues of reproductive health and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sandrine HOUNSA
Sandrine HOUNSA is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). She holds a master’s degree in statistics applied to living species from the International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Application (CIPMA-UNESCO Chair – Benin) and a master’s degree in development economics from the Center for International Development Studies and Research (CERDI-France). Her doctoral thesis focuses on issues of maternal and child health, food security, migration, ecofeminism, and biodiversity in the Horn of Africa. She seeks to understand the relationship between maternal and child health and biodiversity through famine and food security. She previously served as project manager of the STREESCO project in Benin. She has also completed research assistance internships at the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States in New York (UN-OHRLLS) and at the New York Regional Commission Office (UN-RCNYO).
Yao Jean Kouadio
Yao Jean Kouadio is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He holds a master’s degree in Demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD) in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and a master’s degree in Population and Development from the Université Felix Houphouët Boigny in Abidjan (UFB-Côte d’Ivoire). His doctoral thesis focuses on family dynamics in Côte d’Ivoire, particularly on blended families. He seeks to understand the portraits of reconstituted families in the context of developing countries and its impact on the well-being of women and children on the one hand, and on the other, the representation and coping strategies of women and children in these family models. Yao formerly worked at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (ENSEA-Côte d’Ivoire) as a Project Management Assistant.
Vilbrun Léonard
Vilbrun Leonard is a doctoral student in demography at the University of Montreal. He holds a master’s degree in Population and Development from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales of Mexico (FLACSO-México) and a graduate degree (DES) in Applied Quantitative Economics (option: statistics) from the Centre de Techniques de Planification et d’Economie Appliquée (CTPEA). His doctoral dissertation topic is entitled: “Economic well-being of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in Quebec: The case of those aged 15 years and older who migrated between 1990-2016”.
Aoudou Njingouo Mounchingam
Aoudou Njingouo Mounchingam is a Ph.D student in sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He holds a Master’s degree in demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD-Cameroon) and a Master’s degree in applied statistics from the University of Aix Marseille (France). His dissertation topic is entitled “Forecasting infant and child mortality and the effects of gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa”. He uses machine learning approach to try to establish a new framework for measuring the risk of under-five mortality and also aims to examine the role of gender inequalities on the occurrence of this event.
Exaucé Ngadandé
Exaucé Ngadandé is a doctoral student in demography at the University of Montreal (UdeM-Canada) and a member of the Research Laboratory on Population Dynamics in Africa and its Diaspora (SSAPOPLAB). He holds a Master’s degree in demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD-Cameroon). He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of N’Djamena (Chad) and a diploma in Insurance Technician from the International Institute of Insurance (IIA-Cameroon). His dissertation topic is entitled “Marital Trajectories of sub-Saharan African Immigrants to Canada by Immigration Type”. He uses a supervised Machine Learning method, Random Survivor Forests, to try to understand the incidence of marital breakups and re-marriages among this target population. It also aims to test the influence of the parents’ marital background on the educational success of children of immigrants living in a blended family.
Houlio St-Preux
Houlio St-Preux is a Ph.D student in demography and a lecturer at the University of Montreal (UdeM). He holds a master’s degree in Population and Development from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Mexico (Flacso-México) and a diploma in Applied Quantitative Economics (Statistical Option) from the Center for Planning and Applied Economics Techniques (CTPEA). He worked as a lecturer for several years at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Quisqueya University (UNIQ) in Haiti. His research focuses on women’s reproductive health, particularly adolescent fertility in Haiti. Currently, he is working on his doctoral thesis which focuses on the relationship between economic participation and the birth of the first child of men and women in Quebec according to immigration status.
Georges Alain Tchango Ngalé
Georges Alain Tchango Ngalé is currently a PhD candidate in demography at the Université de Montréal. His dissertation is entitled “Parcours d’intégration des immigrants et des immigrantes au Québec. At the crossroads between their residential experiences, their family dynamics and their professional transitions”. It aims to contribute, through a mixed methodological approach, to a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the residential changes of immigrants settled in Quebec can be induced by transitions occurring within the family (change of union and birth) and on the labour market (change of job). As part of his research activities, he is involved in the project “Trajectories and individual dynamics of men’s and women’s participation in Quebec society” (TrajIPaQ, UdeM demography and UQAM sociology departments). He is also pursuing an internship with the City of Montreal, funded by Mitacs and the University of Montreal. More globally, his heuristic interests are in the field of population health and immigrant integration. His academic background includes a professional master’s degree in demography (IFORD) and a master’s degree in development, environment and society (UCL).
