Congratulations Lucy on the CIHR CGS D Award 🎉

🎉 When it rains it pours (of exciting news) at the EPIX Lab! 🎉

Thrilled to share that Lucy Mackrell, was awarded the Canadian Graduate Doctoral Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada! This award is a well-deserved recognition of Lucy’s commitment to health equity, rigorous scholarship, and community-engaged research. Her thesis is informed by her experience as a frontline clinical social worker which complements her epidemiology training at Queen's University. I’m incredibly proud of her and can’t wait to see the impact of her work in the years to come.

Lucy is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology Specialization) at Queen’s University and is co-supervised by Megan A. Carter and Dr. Hugh Guan at KFL&A Public Health (now South East Health Unit).

Originally from Kingston, ON, she holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in Global Development Studies from Queen’s, and completed her Master of Social Work at McGill University. Between 2018 and 2023, Lucy worked in both hospital and community settings supporting individuals navigating complex health and social challenges. In 2023, she returned to Queen’s to pursue doctoral training focused on evaluating the implementation of an outreach model of care to enhance access to syphilis testing and treatment for equity deserving populations. She was awarded a CIHR Health Systems Fellowship in 2024 and is a co-applicant on multiple CIHR grants.

I am so lucky to have the opportunity to mentor and learn from exceptional students like Lucy!