Dr. Lachaud is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. His research uses various approaches and methods to unravel social and environmental injustices and their impact on population health and well-being. The main research focuses on how structural, social, and environmental factors and policies affect or interact synergistically to shape the lives of several population groups and contribute to the high concentration of poverty and spatial health inequities among vulnerable population groups. His current research has two main streams: i) housing policy, homelessness, and inequality, and ii) structural and intermediary determinants of socioeconomic and health inequities. Thus, he works collaboratively with extensive and diverse international teams, including in and outside academia, local communities, local authorities, hospitals, and public and private institutions. His research methodology includes spatial analysis, multilevel analysis, survival modeling, structural equation modeling, trajectory-based models, and pragmatic and quasi-experimental studies. Dr. Lachaud’s work has been published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Urban Health, The Lancet Psychiatry, International Journal for Equity in Health, Demographic Research, and the American Journal of Human Biology.
Dr. Lachaud has a PhD in demography from the Université de Montréal. He holds a master in population and development from the Facultad Latino-americana de Ciencias Sociales-Mexico and a diploma in Advanced Studies in Applied Economics and Statistics from the Centre de Techniques de Planification, et d’Economie Appliquée-the State University of Haiti. He served as a post-doctoral research fellow at Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and at St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto, Canada). He has won a Fellowship Award in Research & Knowledge Translation on Urban Housing and Health from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research -the Institute of Population and Public (CIRHR-IPP) Health and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Education
PhD - Université de Montréal, 2015 - Demography
M.Sc - Facultad Latino-Americana de Ciencias Sociales/Mexico, 2010 - Population and Development
Diploma in Advanced Studies - Centre de Techniques de Planification, et d’Economie Appliquée/State University of Haiti, 2007- Applied Economics, Statistics
Areas of expertise
Population health
Housing policy and homelessness
Common mental health and wellbeing
Mortality and causes of death
Social and economic inequalities