Eva Monson is a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke and a researcher at the Centre de recherche - Charles-Le Moyne – Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean sur les innovations en santé in Québec, Canada. Dr. Monson received her PhD from McGill University where she studied trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder as they relate to quality of life and perceived neighbourhood contexts. Her current research is devoted to investigating how social and environmental deprivation, from the level of the individual to the neighbourhoods where they reside, factor into the dialogue concerning gambling behaviours and problems.