Holder of a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from the Université de Montréal, Ms. Pascale Lehoux completed a PhD in public health at the same university in 1996. After postdoctoral training in Science & Technology Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam and the Conseil d’évaluation des technologies de la santé du Québec (CÉTS), she began an academic career in 1998 at the Department of Health Administration of the Université de Montréal.

Since then, Ms. Lehoux has published two books and more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has developed numerous knowledge mobilization initiatives. She held the Canada Research Chair in Health Innovations from 2005 to 2015. Her seven-year research program on responsible health innovation (entitled In Fieri) was ranked 22^nd out of 150 programs funded in the first competition of the highly competitive Foundation Scheme of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

In 2019, Ms. Lehoux was awarded the 30^th Anniversary Medal of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. This award is given to ten recipients every five years for their contributions to the field of health technology assessment. In 2021, she was awarded the Peggy Leatt Award by the University of Toronto in recognition of significant achievements in developing transformative evidence on how to improve health services and health systems.

Ms. Lehoux was a member of the Board of Directors of INESSS from 2018 to 2023 and co-chair of Research at the International Observatory of the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology (OBVIA) from 2018 to 2022.