Emmanuelle Belanger

About

Dr. Emmanuelle Belanger is an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice at the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research within Brown University’s School of Public Health. She has a background in both social and health sciences, earning her Ph.D. from McGill University in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, where her dissertation focused on patient participation in palliative care decision-making through qualitative research. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in social epidemiology of aging at the University of Montreal’s Public Health Research Institute (IRSPUM). Since joining Brown in 2017, Dr. Belanger has led a research program utilizing mixed-methods approaches to assess and manage patient-reported symptoms in older adults, improve the quality of end-of-life care across diverse settings, and examine decision-making processes around palliative care. Her work is focused on areas including end-of-life care, gerontology, hospice care, long-term care, symptom management, and palliative care, contributing significantly to understanding and improving healthcare experiences for aging populations.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Family medicine
• Psychology
• Gerontology
• Emergency medicine
• Nursing
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Demography

Selected publications

• Social class and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prospective longitudinal studies

  Scandinavian Journal of Public Health · 2022 · 53 citations

  BACKGROUND: The association between belonging to a disadvantaged socio-economic status or social class and health outcomes has been consistently documented during recent decades. However, a meta-analysis quantifying the association between belonging to a lower social class and the risk of dementia has yet to be performed. In the present work, we sought to summarise the results of prospective, longitudinal studies on this topic. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of prosp…

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• Early Palliative Care Services and End-of-Life Care in Medicare Beneficiaries with Hematologic Malignancies: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

  Journal of Palliative Medicine · 2020 · 27 citations

  Among patients with HM, there was an upward trend in PC services, and early PC services were associated with less aggressive EOL care. Our results support the need for prospective trials of early PC in HM.

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• How Accurately Do Patients and Their Care Partners Report Results of Amyloid-β PET Scans for Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment?

  Journal of Alzheimer s Disease · 2020 · 23 citations

  BACKGROUND: Amyloid-β PET scans will likely become an integral part of the diagnostic evaluation for Alzheimer's disease if Medicare approves reimbursement for the scans. However, little is known about patients' and their care partners' interpretation of scan results. OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to understand how accurately patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and their care partners report results of amyloid-β PET scans and factors related to correct reporting. METHODS: A m…

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• Places of end-of-life care and death in health policies of four countries (EOLinPLACE Project)

  Health & Place · 2025-10-07 · 1 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Place of death and its concordance with patient preference is a key indicator for end-of-life care, studied cross-nationally and flagged as a priority by the OECD. However, it is unclear if and how 'place' is considered in health policy in relation to end-of-life care. This study aims to examine if and how health policies in different nations consider places of end-of-life care and death. METHODS: We conducted a comparative qualitative study across the US, the Netherlands, Portugal,…

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• Cognitive maintenance in older adults in social classes: a secondary analysis of the longitudinal SHARE data

  Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 2025-03-26 · 1 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Cognitive maintenance-defined as a capacity to maintain good or excellent cognitive functioning-is a valuable ageing outcome. Socio-demographic, dementia risk and protective factors may contribute differently to it across social classes. However, these effects have not been adequately assessed yet. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate the effects of socio-demographic, risks and protective factors on the probability of cognitive maintenance in older adults stratified by social class…

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Recent grants

• Determinants of End-of-Life Care Experiences among Assisted Living Residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia

  NIH · $2.7M · 2020–2025

• Data Management and Methods Core

  NIH · $54.2M · 2007–2029

Frequent coauthors

• Courtney H. Van Houtven

  Duke University

  73 shared

• Pedro Gozalo

  Providence College

  70 shared

• Megan Shepherd‐Banigan

  Duke University

  68 shared

• Kali S. Thomas

  Johns Hopkins University

  66 shared

• Vincent Mor

  Providence College

  61 shared

• Tamra Keeney

  Harvard University

  47 shared

• Adam J. Olszewski

  Providence College

  47 shared

• Eric Jutkowitz

  Brown University

  44 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine

  McGill University

• Other, Social epidemiology of aging

  University of Montreal’s Public Health Research Institute (IRSPUM)

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