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Benoît Tousignant
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Latest papers
Through the Eye: Retinal Changes of Prenatal Mercury Exposure in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2025 · senior author
Accessing emergency eye care by therapeutically qualified optometrists: a simulated-patient study in Quebec, Canada.
Clinical & experimental optometry · 2025 · first author
Characterizing visual field loss from past mercury exposure in an Indigenous riverine community (Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada): a cluster-based approach
Environmental Health · 2024
Latest funding
- $405,450
Developing a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to vision rehabilitation: A patient-centered, community-oriented initiative for mercury-related visual deficits in Grassy Narrows First Nation
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $24,996
Planning for mercury-related vision rehabilitation services for Grassy Narrows First Nation community
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,342,575
Pathways towards environmental justice: a community-academic research partnership to understand how past and present mercury exposure from fish consumption affects health and well-being in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
13 publications.
Through the Eye: Retinal Changes of Prenatal Mercury Exposure in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada
Véronique Small, Aline Philibert, Annie Chatillon, Judy Da Silva, Myriam Fillion, Donna Mergler, Benoît Tousignant
Accessing emergency eye care by therapeutically qualified optometrists: a simulated-patient study in Quebec, Canada.
Tousignant B, Binette C, Duchesne A
Characterizing visual field loss from past mercury exposure in an Indigenous riverine community (Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada): a cluster-based approach
Aline Philibert, Benoît Tousignant, Myriam Fillion, Judy Da Silva, Donna Mergler
Use of the CONSIDER statement by eye health researchers when conducting and reporting research involving Indigenous peoples: an online survey
Isaac Samuels, Lisa Marie Hamm, Juan Carlos Silva, Benoît Tousignant, João M. Furtado, Lucy Goodman, Renata Watene, Jaki Adams, Aryati Yashadhana, Ben Wilkinson, Helen Dimaras, Ilena Brea, Jaymie T Rogers, Joanna M. Black, Joshua Foreman, Juan Camilo Arboleda, Juan Francisco Yee, Julián Trujillo-Trujillo, Lisa J. Keay, Luisa Casas Luque, María del Pilar Oviedo Cáceres, Martha Idalí Saboyá-Díaz, Mônica Alves, Myrna Lichter, Pushkar Raj Silwal, Rebecca W Findlay, Rosario Barrenechea, Samantha Kaye Simkin, Sharon A Bentley, Shelley Hopkins, et al. (36 authors)
Priorities in school eye health in low and middle-income countries a scoping review.
Harvey AA, Morjaria P, Tousignant B
The prevalence and causes of visual impairment among the male homeless population of Montreal, Canada.
Yelle B, Beaulieu K, Etty MC, Michaelsen S, Druetz T, Samaha D, Tousignant B
The sociodemographic characteristics and social determinants of visual impairment in a homeless population in the Montreal area.
Etty MC, Michaelsen S, Yelle B, Beaulieu K, Jacques P, Ettaleb S, Samaha D, Tousignant B, Druetz T
Visual Characteristics of Adults with Long-Standing History of Dietary Exposure to Mercury in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada
Benoît Tousignant, Annie Chatillon, Aline Philibert, Judy Da Silva, Myriam Fillion, Donna Mergler
Primary eye health services for older adults as a component of universal health coverage: a scoping review of evidence from high income countries.
Goodman L, Hamm L, Tousignant B, Black J, Misra S, Woodburn S, Keay L, Harwood M, Gordon I, Evans JR, Ramke J
Refractive error, risk of amblyopia and eye care services utilisation among Nunavik Inuit in Northern Canada.
Tousignant B, Brûlé J
Developing a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to vision rehabilitation: A patient-centered, community-oriented initiative for mercury-related visual deficits in Grassy Narrows First Nation
Principal investigators: Nemargut, Joseph P; Da Silva, Judy L
Keywords: First Nations; Indigenous; Mercury Poisoning; Orientation And Mobility; Vision Care; Vision Rehabilitation
Planning for mercury-related vision rehabilitation services for Grassy Narrows First Nation community
Principal investigators: Nemargut, Joseph P; Marshall, Lauri Ann
Keywords: Indigenous Health; Mercury Exposure; Vision Rehabilitation; Visual Field Loss
Pathways towards environmental justice: a community-academic research partnership to understand how past and present mercury exposure from fish consumption affects health and well-being in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation)
Principal investigators: Mergler, Donna; Fillion, Myriam
Keywords: Data Management And Analysis; Environmental Health; Indigenous Health; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mercury Exposure And Toxicity; Neurology; Psychology; Vision
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.
- Première Nation anichinabée de Grassy Narrows : association entre l’exposition alimentaire au méthylmercure et les structures rétiniennes observées par tomographie par cohérence optique (OCT)
Master's · 2025 · supervisor
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Frequent collaborators
- Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret and Antony Karelis: 52 shared papers
- Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret and Éric Doucet: 45 shared papers
- Donna Mergler and Myriam Fillion: 40 shared papers
- Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret and David St-Pierre: 15 shared papers
- Antony Karelis and David St-Pierre: 15 shared papers
- Éric Doucet and Antony Karelis: 12 shared papers
- Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret and Marie-Eve Mathieu: 9 shared papers
- Éric Doucet and David St-Pierre: 4 shared papers
- Donna Mergler and Benoît Tousignant: 3 shared papers
- Myriam Fillion and Benoît Tousignant: 3 shared papers
- Marie-Eve Mathieu and Éric Doucet: 2 shared papers
- Marie-Eve Mathieu and Antony Karelis: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Druetz and Dan Samaha: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Druetz and Benoît Tousignant: 2 shared papers
- Dan Samaha and Benoît Tousignant: 2 shared papers
- Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret and Julie Nantel: 1 shared paper
- Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- Helen Dimaras and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- Marie-Eve Mathieu and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- Éric Doucet and Julie Nantel: 1 shared paper
- Éric Doucet and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- Julie Nantel and Antony Karelis: 1 shared paper
- Julie Nantel and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- Antony Karelis and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- David St-Pierre and Benoît Tousignant: 1 shared paper
- School of Optometry
- Department of Biological Sciences
- Department of Exercise Science
- Human Kinetics
- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
- Clinical Public Health Division
- School of Kinesiology and Physical Activity Sciences
- Other
Co-authors at Université de Montréal, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Donna Mergler
Department of Biological Sciences
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Myriam Fillion
Department of Biological Sciences
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Dan Samaha
School of Optometry
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Thomas Druetz
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2023
May Faraj
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2009
Helen Dimaras
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret
Nutrition & Medecine
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Éric Doucet
Human Kinetics
1 shared papers, latest 2007
May Faraj
Cardiovascular Metabolism & Nutrition Research
1 shared papers, latest 2009
Julie Nantel
Human Kinetics
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Antony Karelis
Department of Exercise Science
1 shared papers, latest 2007
David St-Pierre
Department of Exercise Science
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Marie-Eve Mathieu
School of Kinesiology and Physical Activity Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2009
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