Dr. Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

Public service/commitment/scientific rigor and precision/policy decision support/responsiveness

Dr. Mathieu Maheu-Giroux has been working non-stop since the pandemic arrived in Quebec, the epicenter for Canada from the beginning. He quickly pivoted from his research on HIV to address the critical situation the pandemic brought to all. Mathieu and his colleagues and students immediately mobilized their intellectual resources to focus on Covid-19 and have sustained this intense responsiveness throughout the pandemic. Dr. Maheu-Giroux’s unwavering work and commitment to changing the course of the pandemic and its consequences provided continuous synthesized information and distinct scenarios based on alternative decision strategies. His prediction models forecasting hospitalizations, as well as the models describing and predicting the spread of the infections have been, and continue to be, foundational guideposts among the key elements in developing and continuously adapting the pandemic responses by the Premier and the Directors of Public Health. In recognition of his contributions above and beyond, he was recently awarded the Scientist of the Year Prize by Radio-Canada, a distinction rarely granted to an epidemiologist.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1763158/scientifiques-annee-2020-radio-canada-modelisateurs-pandemie?fbclid=IwAR1V56IFHH-yV8rZWSMowlLar_wyTpK9kCu4Qi4fix2dmT58Qgct5rvoZk4