No, she's not a UdeM soccer player.

Dr. Hélène Carabin is a Full Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal School of Public Health. Her research program focuses on the use of advanced epidemiological and biostatistical methods to better understand the risk factors and burden of infectious diseases and evaluate control programs, with an emphasis on diseases of the poorest populations and those affecting both animals and humans.

After a post-doctorate in England in health economics, she was a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's College of Public Health for nearly 17 years, where she developed a major research program on the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of Asian schistosomiasis and cysticercosis. She also contributed to the implementation and evaluation of a hepatitis C elimination program among the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.

Returning to Canada in September 2018 with a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, her research group is focused on evaluating the added value of the One Health approach to not only control zoonoses, but also improve human and animal health.

Dr. Carabin has published over 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Nature, The Lancet, The Lancet Global Health, JAMA Network, etc.), given nearly 200 presentations at congresses, seminars, workshops and more. She has often been called upon to participate as a consultant for the Public Health Agency of Canada, the World Health Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Her team was instrumental in adding cysticercosis and echinococcosis to the list of diseases included in the Global Burden of Disease Initiative, raising awareness among decision-makers of the importance of these zoonoses to human health. She is director of the Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique (GREZOSP), co-director of the Réseau de prévention des crises en santé (Précrisa) and co-leader of the Risk and Prevention theme and of the Interdisciplinarity and One Health sub-committee of the Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique (CReSP). Dr. Carabin is a Commissioner on the Lancet One Health Commission, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and an International Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.

She holds a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine (1992) and a Masters in Veterinary Clinical Sciences (1994) from the Université de Montréal, and a Doctorate in Epidemiology from McGill University (1998).