
Full professor
Contact details (research)
Centre de recherche du CHU Ste-Justine
Centre de réadaptation Marie Enfant
5200 rue Bélanger, Montréal (Québec) H1T 1C9
Bureau : J.2.601.1.
T 514 374-1710, poste 8606
Contact details (School of Rehabilitation)
T 514 343-6111, ext. 17354
marie.laberge@umontreal.ca
Programme
Occupational Therapy
Chair of the Canada Research Chair in Adolescent Work Disability Prevention
Website : http://adoprevit.org/
Education
- Sc. Occupational Therapy, Université Laval (1994)
- Specialized Diploma – Ergonomic Intervention in the field of Ocupational Health and Safety (1995)
- Sc. Biology (Ergonomics), Université du Québec à Montréal (1997)
- D. Biology (Ergonomics), Université du Québec à Montréal (2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Work & Health (2012)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Training Program on Work Disability Prevention (WDP), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (2011-2013)
Current research projects
- Early prevention of occupational cancers for students learning semi-skilled trades.
- Development of digital tools to support health and safety at work in theWork-oriented Training Path (WOTP)
- Multidimensional models for employment access for people at risk of labor market exclusion.
- Considering sex and gender in occupational and environmental health: equity practices in prevention approaches.
Research Network
- Équipe IDEA / VRAIE – Inclusive Design for Employment Access (Fonds Nouvelles Frontières – Transformation) https://vraie-idea.ca
- Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique (OBVIA), axe Éducation et Capacitation (Fonds FRQ) : https://observatoire-ia.ulaval.ca/
- Initiative intersectorielle « Vers une société plus inclusive » (Fonds FRQ) https://societeinclusive.ca/
- Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le travail « Santé, Genre, Égalité » (SAGE) (Équipe du FRQSC) http://sage.uqam.ca/
- Centre collaborateur de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / Organisation Panaméricaine de la Santé (OMS / OPS) en santé au travail CAN-96 (co-directrice)
- Regroupement stratégique Ingénierie de technologies interactives en réadaptation, est (FRQ – Nature et technologie)
- Réseau Communautés rurales et éloignées en santé (CARES) (Réseau thématique FRQ Santé)
- Réseau québécois de recherche sur le sommeil (Réseau thématique FRQ Santé)
Selected publications
- Bérubé, M., Chatigny, C., Laberge, M. (2025). Gender Differences in Occupational Health and Safety Perceptions: Insights from Vulnerable Youth in Dual Vocational Training. Safety Science, 186 June 2025, 106797 (online first) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2025.106797.
- Bérubé, M., Laberge, M., Chatigny, C., Tondoux, A. (2023). Enjeux systémiques du co-développement d’outils numériques en soutien à la formation : une confrontation entre dispositions et contraintes. Médiations et médiatisations, (16), 76-94. DOI : https ://doi.org/10.52358/mm.vi16.368
- Laberge, M., Vignet, M.*, Chatigny, C. (2022). “Development of a reflective learning method to support health and safety of adolescents with learning difficulties enrolled in a pre-work practicum”. Ergonomics, 65(11), 1509-1524.
- Laberge, M., Chadoin, M., Inigo, M.*, Messing, K., Lefrançois, M., Sultan-Taïeb, H., Chatigny, C., Riel, J., Webb, J., Fillion, M., Vaillancourt, C., Bellemare, M. (2022). Integration of sex and gender in ergonomic students’ interventions. Ergonomics, 65(11), 1578-1593.
- Laberge, M., Blanchette-Luong, V., Blanchard, A., Sultan-Taïeb, H., Riel, J., Lederer, V., Saint-Charles, J., Chatigny, C., Lefrançois, M., Webb, J., Major, M.E., Vaillancourt, C., Messing, K. (2020). « Impacts of Considering Sex and Gender during Intervention Studies in Occupational Health: Re-searchers’ Perspectives ». Applied Ergonomics, 82.
Research interests
- Socio-professional integration of adolescents
- Prevention of work disability
- Development, implementation, and evaluation of occupational health interventions
- Modeling of integrated knowledge translation interventions
- Development of digital technologies to support employability
- Sex- and gender-based analysis