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Yan Kestens

ResearcherUrban PlanningMcGill University

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Yan Kestens

Researcher

Urban Planning

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
23 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

Construction And Health Construction And Travel Behaviour Infrastrcture And Health Infrastructure And Travel Behaviour Longitudenal Study Natural Experiment Quasi-Experimental Design Transport And Health

Latest papers

Individual and Environmental Correlations with Vaccination Status in Canada: The COHESION study.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026
Temporal shifts in area-level access to cycling infrastructure for equity-deserving groups in three Canadian cities: A descriptive epidemiologic study.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
Exposure to built and social environments and momentary well-being: A geographic ecological momentary assessment study in Montreal.
Environment international · 2026 · senior author

All 88 publications

Latest funding

Measuring the impacts of the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) on health, mobility, and equity: A longitudinal study
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$956,250
Measuring the impacts of the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) on health, mobility, and equity: A longitudinal study
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
Personal Social Networks, Built Environment and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: a Prospective Investigation with Young Adults
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$707,626

All 8 grants and awards

88 publications.

Individual and Environmental Correlations with Vaccination Status in Canada: The COHESION study.

Firouraghi N, Dubé È, Thierry B, Kestens Y, Moullec G

Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11524-026-01110-1 PMID: 42423943

Temporal shifts in area-level access to cycling infrastructure for equity-deserving groups in three Canadian cities: A descriptive epidemiologic study.

Mamiya H, Thierry B, Stephens ZP, Bell S, Diab E, Kestens Y, Winters M, Fuller D

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2026

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-026-01209-7 PMID: 42098458

Exposure to built and social environments and momentary well-being: A geographic ecological momentary assessment study in Montreal.

Khezri S, Thierry B, Fuller D, Winters M, Kanning M, Geneidy AE, Kestens Y

Environment international2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2026.110159 PMID: 41759282

Socio-economic and environmental influences on post-pandemic mental health: insights from a pan-Canadian survey.

Bista S, Thierry B, Kestens Y, Moullec G

Psychology, health & medicine2026

DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2026.2632839 PMID: 41717954

The street as transdisciplinary infrastructure: real world labs in One Urban Health-well-being corner shops in Québec, Canada.

de Leeuw E, Aenishaenslin C, Batal M, Beauchet O, Bouchard M, Boudreau LeBlanc A, Frohlich K, Kestens Y, Lord S, Potvin L, Terrat Y, Torres J, Trépanier M, Harriet N

BMC global and public health2026

DOI: 10.1186/s44263-025-00235-w PMID: 41501892

Evaluating the protective effect of public open space on social connectedness: evidence from a natural experiment cohort study in three Canadian cities.

Sones M, Fuller D, Kestens Y, Thierry B, Winters M

Health & place2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103541 PMID: 40986969

Social network characteristics and levels of fluctuations in momentary depressive symptomatology among older adults.

Cail V, Beenackers MA, Van Lenthe FJ, Oude Groeniger J, Fancello G, Montanari A, Sueur C, Kestens Y, Vallée J, Chaix B

Journal of epidemiology and community health2025

DOI: 10.1136/jech-2024-222959 PMID: 40813055

Geographic environments, daily activities and stress in Luxembourg (the FragMent study): a protocol combining map-based questionnaires, geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment and vocal biomarkers of stress.

Perchoux C, Topalian N, Klein S, Chaix B, Tharrey M, Röcke C, Gerber P, Klein O, Missling A, Omrani H, Helbich M, Van Dyck D, Kestens Y, Dijst M, Fagherazzi G

BMJ open2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-105499 PMID: 40897485

Cognitive maintenance in older adults in social classes: a secondary analysis of the longitudinal SHARE data.

Bodryzlova Y, Nasri B, Ramasy Razafindratovo RM, Kestens Y, Bélanger E, Moullec G

Journal of epidemiology and community health2025

DOI: 10.1136/jech-2023-220542 PMID: 40139758

Distinguishing associations between neighbourhood features and physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour time, and screen time in boys and girls.

Lungu AA, Ghenadenik AE, Van Hulst A, Mathieu ME, Henderson M, Kestens Y, Barnett TA

Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors2025

DOI: 10.1186/s44167-025-00074-y PMID: 40474313

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Yan Kestens

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Individual and Environmental Correlations with Vaccination Status in Canada: The COHESION study.

Temporal shifts in area-level access to cycling infrastructure for equity-deserving groups in three Canadian cities: A descriptive epidemiologic study.

Exposure to built and social environments and momentary well-being: A geographic ecological momentary assessment study in Montreal.

Socio-economic and environmental influences on post-pandemic mental health: insights from a pan-Canadian survey.

The street as transdisciplinary infrastructure: real world labs in One Urban Health-well-being corner shops in Qu&#xe9;bec, Canada.

Evaluating the protective effect of public open space on social connectedness: evidence from a natural experiment cohort study in three Canadian cities.

Social network characteristics and levels of fluctuations in momentary depressive symptomatology among older adults.

Geographic environments, daily activities and stress in Luxembourg (the FragMent study): a protocol combining map-based questionnaires, geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment and vocal biomarkers of stress.

Cognitive maintenance in older adults in social classes: a secondary analysis of the longitudinal SHARE data.

Distinguishing associations between neighbourhood features and physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour time, and screen time in boys and girls.

Frequent collaborators

Yan Kestens

Lise Gauvin

Lise Gauvin

Meghan Winters

Daniel Fuller

Andraea Van Hulst

Daniel Fuller

Karen Laberee

Patrick Morency

Melanie Henderson

Marie-Soleil Cloutier

Melanie Henderson

Louis Drouin

Bryna Shatenstein

Daniel Fuller

Nazeem Muhajarine

Louise Potvin

Damien Contandriopoulos

Marie-Eve Mathieu

Geneviève Gariépy

Guy Faulkner

David Buckeridge

Gregory Moullec

Geetanjali Datta

David Buckeridge

Geetanjali Datta

Meghan Winters

Jennifer O'Loughlin

Jonathan McGavock

Lindsay Mclaren

David Hammond

Catherine Morency

Michel Perreault

Norbert Schmitz

Janet Smylie

Candace Nykiforuk

Janet Smylie

Scott Leatherdale

Kaberi Dasgupta

Bernard-Simon Leclerc

The street as transdisciplinary infrastructure: real world labs in One Urban Health-well-being corner shops in Québec, Canada.