Members

Professor, Faculty of Nursing
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta

Nicole Letourneau is full professor in the Faculty of Nursing and holds the Norlien/Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health at the University of Calgary. In 2007, she was named Canada's premier young investigator for receiving the Peter Lougheed New Investigator award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. She is also a Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development. In 2008, she was named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40 and to "Who's Who in Canada."

Her research program entitled "Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development" (CHILD) Studies Program, focuses on developing and testing interventions to support vulnerable children's development, with an emphasis on children's early caregiving environments. She has published results of her research in over 70 refereed journals and books. Dr. Letourneau received her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of New Brunswick in 1991, followed by her master's degree (1994) and PhD (1998), both in nursing, from the University of Alberta. After completing postdoctoral studies in 2003, she was presented with the Outstanding New Investigator in Research Award from the Canadian Association for Nursing Research and the Alumni Horizon Award for early achievement from the University of Alberta. She has been a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research New Investigator Network, CIHR's Institute of Gender and Health Institute Advisory Board, and CIHR's Population Health Review Committee.