Dr. Kira London-Nadeau, PhD (she/her) is a CIHR and FRQS Health Systems Impact Fellow currently completing a pediatric research post-doc at the CHU Ste-Justine’s Gender Diversity Clinic, in affiliation with the Université de Montréal. At the Gender Clinic, she co-leads a large, longitudinal study aiming to examine the long-term outcomes of children and adolescents who receive gender-affirming care. As an embedded research fellow, she also aims to support the improvement of gender-affirming care for youth across Québec. 

Prior to this work, Dr. London-Nadeau completed her masters and doctoral studies as an FRQS and CIHR-Vanier scholar at the Université de Montréal. Her work focused on the associations between cannabis use and mental health among queer and trans youth in Québec.  

Dr. London-Nadeau’s research aims to remain connected to community work. As such, in 2018, she co-founded project VoxCann, a bilingual cannabis education initiative for youth in Québec. Between 2018 and 2023, she was also the chair of the national board of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy.