Simone Lavoie-Racine is a PhD student in Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Her PhD research, using the insights of feminist disability studies and medical anthropology, delves into the experiences of endometriosis (a common chronic illness) in Quebec. She is interested in exploring how the object of endometriosis is mobilized and enacted by the people living with this condition, and by disability activists and medical practitioners.

With the Predictive Care Lab, she supports research on patients’ experiences of psychiatry and on the characterization of violence within emergency psychiatry. She has also worked in community-led research projects on housing, social inequities in health, and social innovation, and as a research analyst at the Public Health Agency of Canada researching youth suicide in Quebec.