SATISFACTION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

My experience within the CAnD3 program began in September 2020, and almost nine months later, I have come back from an extraordinary adventure that has exceeded my expectations. Indeed, the quality and consistency of the modalities structuring the program (Lunch & Learn, Meet the speakers, Connect2Learn, Skills module), and the regularity and the right balance between these to promote learning through the acquisition of new theoretical and practical skills, make it quite a unique program. I really enjoyed my collaboration with one of my condisciplines, Emma Rodriguez, in the framework of the GBA + analysis module. More generally, the program allowed me above all to insert questions relating to the aging of population in the range of my research interests, because my thesis focuses more on the health and integration of immigrant populations in Quebec. I was also better informed to use R software for organizing, transforming, analyzing and visualizing data.

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For the rest, I will use the achievements of the program for the realization of my doctoral thesis. I am also starting a MITACS acceleration internship with the city of Montreal this summer, which will last for the next two years. There is no doubt that the skills acquired and reinforced during my participation in the first cohort of the CAnD3 program will be capitalized within the framework of this new heuristic challenge, as well as much later, within the framework of my professional activities.