Heather Monroe-Blum

Heather Monroe-Blum is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

Monroe-Blum was born in Montreal and raised in Ontario. She received her B.A. from McMaster University and postgraduate degrees from there as well as Wilfrid Laurier University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her Ph.D. Prior to her appointment as Prinicpal of McGill, she had been a professor at York University, McMaster University, and the University of Toronto, where she later served as the Vice-President (Research and International relations) between 1994 and 2002. In January 2003 Monroe-Blum replaced outgoing Principal Bernard Shapiro as McGill's Prinipal, who now serves as the federal privacy commissioner in Canada.

Trained as an epidemiologist, Professor Munroe-Blum has led large-scale epidemiological investigations related to psychiatric disorders. She is the author or co-author of over 60 scholarly publications, including four books. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Medical Research Council of Canada (now the Canadian Institutes of Health Research) as well as on international reviews of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Mental Health (USA).

Monroe-Blum is a member of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill and a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is also an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is married to screenwriter