Katrine Desautels

Katrine Desautels is an award-winning journalist with La Presse Canadienne/The Canadian Press, specializing in health reporting and social issues affecting vulnerable populations. A graduate of Université du Québec à Montréal, she gained recognition through her 2025 Michener-Deacon Fellowship project investigating limited access to running water's impacts on healthcare delivery in Nunavik's Indigenous communities. Her work focuses on systemic challenges in public health infrastructure, with La Presse Canadienne distributing her investigative reports nationwide. Desautels' career demonstrates a consistent pattern of highlighting underreported health disparities, particularly through policy analysis and on-the-ground reporting in remote regions.