Anna Zumbansen is Professor at the University of Ottawa, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, and Associate Director of the Music and Health research Institute, where she leads the research initiative on the practices and effects of singing on health and well-being. Prof. Zumbansen worked as a speech-language pathologist in France and Canada. Supported by the CIHR and NSERC, she completed her doctoral training at the Université de Montréal in the BRAMS (BRAin, Music and Sound) research center in 2014, and her post-doctoral training in neurology at the Jewish General Hospital (McGill University). Since the start of her research activities in 2009, she has worked on ways to improve the rehabilitation of people with post-stroke aphasia: inclusion of people with aphasia in research and knowledge mobilization activities, clinical trials on the effects of transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation techniques, and on the benefits of singing. Prof. Zumbansen has demonstrated the specific role of singing in an individual singing-based therapy (melodic intonation therapy) and conducted the first randomized controlled trial on the effects of group singing for the rehabilitation of people with aphasia. Following a pilot study published in 2017 in the journal Aphasiology, she is now leading a larger-scale, multicenter, international study (Canada and the USA), supported by SSHRC (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06368323).