Joël Monzée will soon have completed his doctoral studies in Neurological Sciences at the Université de Montréal. Besides his excellent academic results and the numerous scholarships that he has been awarded, including one from the Université de Montréal's Department of Higher Education, Joël Monzée has distinguished himself in important projects such as that for the improvement of financing for the health system and Quebec's drug insurance policy. He has thus written or co-written seven submissions or reports to the government and co-organized eleven scientific events over the past five years. He is notably the main co-author of a 195-page report entitled Recherche en santé: enjeux et perspective published in 2001. Joël has also distinguished himself as the spokesperson par excellence for student researchers in the health field. In fact, aware of the socio-economic instability of these researchers, he devoted himself for several years to representing them and to stimulating their sense of belonging to the health research profession.
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A Master's student in International Business at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Brenda Plant is a passionate person and a firmly committed citizen of the world. For over seven years, Brenda has committed herself to defending the causes of poverty and social justice including, among others, individual rights in the areas of social, housing and immigration programs. In 1993, while working with street children in Ecuador, Brenda Plant immersed herself in the problems of north-south relations and, since then, she has acted on many fronts for social justice. In particular, she is a founding member of Images de femmes and has also sat on the board of directors of the Montreal Ethical Investors Group. This student has also sat on parliamentary committees including the Committee on Economic and Social Issues held in Argentina in May 2001 and has often given interviews to the media on subjects such as social security, immigration, and responsible social investment. In all her projects, she has distinguished herself by her enterprising spirit, her sense of leadership and her ability to appeal to others to take on their responsibilities.
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