Graduated in Family Medicine from Laval University, Édith Guilbert started her career in 1979 as a clinician in the multidisciplinary family planning clinic of the CHU de Québec, CHUL, where she worked until 2017. She obtained her master’s degree in epidemiology from the same University in 1992, and continued her postgraduate studies in Educational Science at Laval University and in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, U.S.A. From 1987 to 2001, she was Chief of staff of the Family Planning Clinic at Centre hospitalier de l’Université Laval and has coordinated the expert committee on family planning for Institut national de santé publique du Québec since 2005.
Édith Guilbert was very active in clinical research from 1985 to 2002 and in public health research since 1997. She is part of several scholarly societies such as the Society of Family Planning the European Society for Contraception. She is the co-author of several Canadian guidelines on contraception and abortion. Her research interests focus on contraception, abortion, and reproductive health in general. She is co-investigator or knowledge user for many research projects on the introduction of medical abortions using Mifepristone in Canada, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia.
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Development and pilot testing of the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey
Journal ArticlePilot Feasibility Stud, 9 (1), 2023.
First and Second-Trimester Surgical Abortion Providers and Services in 2019: Results From the Canadian Abortion Provider Survey
Journal ArticleJ Obstet Gynaecol Can, 2023.
First-trimester surgical abortion practice in Canada in 2012
Journal ArticleCan Fam Physician, 69 (1), 2023.
Évaluation de l'information transmise sur l'avortement médicamenteux dans les cliniques d'avortement du Québec en 2021 - Partie 2
Journal ArticleJ Obstet Gynaecol Can, 45 (2), 2023.
[Évaluation de l'accès à l'avortement médicamenteux dans les cliniques d'avortement du Québec en 2021 - Partie I]
Journal ArticleJ Obstet Gynaecol Can, 45 (2), 2023.
Telemedicine for First-Trimester Medical Abortion in Canada: Results of a 2019 Survey
Journal ArticleTelemed J E Health, 29 (5), 2023.
Abortion services and providers in Canada in 2019: results of a national survey
Journal ArticleCMAJ Open, 10 (3), 2022.
Second- and Third-Trimester Medical Abortion Providers and Services in 2019: Results From the Canadian Abortion Provider Survey
Journal ArticleJ Obstet Gynaecol Can, 44 (6), 2022.
Provision of first-trimester medication abortion in 2019: Results from the Canadian abortion provider survey
Journal ArticleContraception, 113 , 2022.
A Virtual Community of Practice to Support Physician Uptake of a Novel Abortion Practice: Mixed Methods Case Study
Journal ArticleJ Med Internet Res, 24 (5), 2022.
Active projects
- The CART Mife-Outcomes study: Relating Canada's unique mifepristone regulations to health system events, costs and access to abortion, using linked health administrative data., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-03-31
Recently finished projects
- The Canadian Surgical and Medical Abortion Provider Survey (CAPS), from 2019-04-01 to 2023-03-31