Title: Professor, Faculty of Nursing, UNB
Email: nicolel@unb.ca

Nicole Letourneau is a tenured Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Research Fellow at CRISP, located at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development and has established the CHILD (Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development) Studies Program at UNB. The overarching goal of the CHILD Studies Program is to develop and test interventions to support the development of vulnerable infants, children, and youth. The impact of children's caregiving environment on their development and health is particularly salient. Children's healthy development is impacted by parent-child relationship quality, family violence, supportive relationships, socioeconomic status, parents' educational attainment and skills, and postpartum depression. These are all subjects of study within her research program. In 2007, she was named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40. She was the 2006 Peter Lougheed/Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator, awarded annually to the highest ranked CIHR New Investigator applicant in Canada for her research on mother-infant relationships affected by family violence. Since 1996, she has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and chapters on the results of her research. For more information on ongoing and completed research, please visit the CHILD website at (www.unbf.ca/nursing/child/). She is also a happily married mother of two wonderful boys, aged 7 and 10 years.