He has a PhD in public health with health promotion option at the Université de Montréal. He worked under the direction of Lise Gauvin and Yan Kestens. He was trained in health psychology at the College of Kinesiology which is part of the University of Saskatchewan. His research interests include active transportation, the built environment, physical activity epidemiology and health psychology. His thesis focused on the potential of interventions on the built environment. More specifically, his dissertation examined the impact of the deployment of BIXI (a self-service bicycle program in Montreal) on physical activity, collisions and health.