Dave Bergeron RN, PhD

Dave Bergeron is a nurse and professor of nursing in the Department of Health Sciences at the University du Quebec a Rimouski. He also teaches global health at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University de Sherbrooke, where he is an associate professor. He collaborates with the Faculty of Nursing Sciences of the Universidad CES in Medellin, Colombia as an associate researcher.

As part of his doctorate in clinical sciences at the University of Sherbrooke, he carried out a realistic evaluation of an oral health promotion program in three Quechua indigenous communities in Peru. He then carried out dissemination and planning work with indigenous Quechua community leaders and authorities in the health and education sectors to develop a common action plan to improve oral health promotion interventions. in indigenous Quechua communities in the Cusco region of Peru.

During his postdoctoral studies at Laval University, he produced a realistic synthesis in order to better understand how the research partnerships developed with Aboriginal communities for the prevention of type 2 diabetes produce their effects. As Nominated Principal Investigator, he is currently working with Indigenous Quechua communities to implement and evaluate an arts-based, community-anchored knowledge transfer and exchange model to better integrate Indigenous community knowledge into interventions. of public health.

In Canada, in collaboration with colleagues from McGill University and Queen's, he is involved in two associated research projects Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program as a principal investigator. In partnership with researchers from the Atikamekw community of Manawan, UQAR, and UQAT, he is also developing a research project aimed at understanding how ancestral traditional knowledge is integrated when monitoring people living with a condition. chronic health.