Gina Bravo, PhD

Gina Bravo is a Canadian Visiting Scholar. She has a PhD in mathematics and post-doctoral training in clinical epidemiology. Professor of Public Health at the University of Sherbrooke since 1991, she teaches research methods and biostatistics to MSc and PhD candidates. She is a member of the Research Centre on Aging located within the University Institute of Geriatrics of Sherbrooke. She has received personal research awards and peer-reviewed grants from the Quebec Health Research funding agency and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her research interests include the quality of care delivered to older adults residing in long-term care facilities and the challenge of securing consent for research participation from elderly subjects lacking decisional capacity.

Recent Publications:

Comfort with proxy consent to research involving decisionally-impaired older adults: do type of proxy and risk-benefit profile matter?
Dubois MF, Bravo G, Graham J, Wildeman S, Cohen C, Painter K, Bellemare S. International Psychogeriatrics 2011;Mar 24:1-10.

Are Canadians Providing Advance Directives about Health Care and Research Participation in the Event of Decisional Incapacity?
Bravo G, Dubois MF, Cohen C, Wildeman S, Graham J, Painter K, Bellemare S. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2011;56:209-218.