Nicole Letourneau

Nicole Letourneau
Born
Fredericton, New Brunswick
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of New Brunswick
University of Alberta
Occupation(s)Professor, Researcher
Websitewww.childstudies.ca

Nicole Lyn Letourneau (born in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian professor and researcher. She is the University of Calgary Research Excellence Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health. Formerly she held Research Chairs in Parent and Infant./Child Mental Health funded by Alberta Children's Hospital, Palix/Norlien, and Newall Family Foundations (2011–2023). She currently serves as the Scientific Director of the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) Health Research Training Platform and Women's and Girls' Health Hub (funded by CIHR). She is also the director of RESOLVE Alberta and principal investigator for the CHILD (Child Health Implementation and Longitudinal Development) Studies Program at Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute.[1][failed verification] She has written over 270 peer-reviewed publications; authored the books, Parenting and Child Development: Issues and Answers, What Kind of Parent Am I: Self-Surveys That Reveal The Impact of Toxic Stress Scientific Parenting: What Science reveals about Parental Impact, and has contributed more than 20 other books on parenting and childcare.[2][3]

During the course of her career as a child mental health researcher, she has received many honors for her work. In 2023 she was inducted into the prestigious Royal Society of Canada.[4] In 2022, she was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Nursing. In 2020, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing and received the prestigious Jeanne Mance Award,[5] the Canadian Nurses Association’s highest honor for career achievement and impacts on Canadians’ health. In 2016, she received the Inspiration Award, bestowed by the Ministry of Human Services of Alberta.[6] In 2015, she was named one of four Alberta Change Agents by Apple Magazine of Alberta Health Services.[7] In 2014, she was named to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest honours bestowed upon health researchers in Canada.[8] She has received research merit awards from two Canadian Colleges of Nursing including Alberta's and New Brunswick's in 2011. She was featured in The Globe and Mail in 2008 when she was named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40 and has been named in Canada & North America's Who's Who.[9][10] In 2007, she was named Canada's premier young investigator by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in receiving the highest ranking in the entire New Investigator competition.[11] She also received the University of Alberta Alumni Horizon award in 2004, recognizing outstanding early accomplishments of alumni.[12]

  1. ^ "Brandon University researcher's project helps new mothers form bonds with their babies". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.
  2. ^ "Publications of Nicole Letourneau on Google Scholar".
  3. ^ "Letourneau's research featured in the Globe and mail Online News 'How bias in mental health care hurts women, from the lab to the medicine cabinet'".
  4. ^ "Press Release | The RSC Presents the Class of 2023". The Royal Society of Canada. 2023-08-30. Retrieved 2024-05-28.
  5. ^ "Jeanne Mance Award". Canadian Nurses Association. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  6. ^ Government of Alberta, Alberta Human Services. "2016 Inspiration Award Recipients". www.humanservices.alberta.ca. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  7. ^ "Nicole Letourneau a "change agent" for health – AllerGen". Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  8. ^ "Four top scholars join prestigious Canadian Academy of Health Sciences". UToday | University of Calgary. 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  9. ^ "Canada's Top 40 Under 40 – Honourees 2007". www.canadastop40under40.com. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  10. ^ "Canadian Who's Who". canadianwhoswho.ca. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  11. ^ "2006 Canadian Health Research Awards". Retrieved June 5, 2019.
  12. ^ "Search Award Recipients | Alumni and Friends". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2019-06-05.