22 Facts About Nicole Letourneau

Nicole Letourneau is the University of Calgary Research Excellence Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health.

Nicole Letourneau currently serves as the Scientific Director of the Alliance against Violence and Adversity Health Research Training Platform and Women's and Girls' Health Hub.

Nicole Letourneau is the director of RESOLVE Alberta and principal investigator for the CHILD Studies Program at Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute.

Nicole Letourneau 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.

Nicole Letourneau has received research merit awards from two Canadian Colleges of Nursing including Alberta's and New Brunswick's in 2011.

Nicole Letourneau received the University of Alberta Alumni Horizon award in 2004, recognizing outstanding early accomplishments of alumni.

Nicole Letourneau graduated from the Fredericton High School in 1987 and went on complete her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of New Brunswick in 1991, after which she successfully completed the requirements to be a Registered Nurse.

Nicole Letourneau completed her master's degree in 1994 and subsequently started her PhD in nursing from University of Alberta.

In early 2003, Nicole Letourneau created the Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development Studies Program at the University of Alberta and moved back to her hometown of New Brunswick joining the University of New Brunswick as associate professor.

Nicole Letourneau's research focus began changing from early childhood development to postpartum depression.

In July 2007, Nicole Letourneau received tenure as a professor at the University of New Brunswick.

Nicole Letourneau is the principal investigator of CHILD and the Research Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health.

Nicole Letourneau is a member of many international societies, including a founding board member of the International Association for the Study of Attachment, member of the Society for Emotional and Attachment Studies, World Association for Infant Mental Health and Post-partum Support International.

Nicole Letourneau was the secretary of the board of Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society, past president of the Alberta Association for Infant Mental Health and board chair of the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta.

Nicole Letourneau is one of the first nurse researchers to study the origins of fetal programming of infant stress reactivity and alterations in brain structure caused due to pre-natal depression.

Nicole Letourneau's work focuses on how Parent-Child relationships affect health outcomes and interact with genotype in predicting mental health outcomes.

Nicole Letourneau's research highlighted women's needs and led to policy recommendations for reforms and improved services across Canada and culminated in a conference that attracted researchers, service providers, and policy makers.

Nicole Letourneau developed and tested MOMS Link along with Dr Cindy-Lee Dennis of the University of Toronto and in partnership with the province of New Brunswick.

Nicole Letourneau is the principal investigator of the APrON study.

In 2023, Dr Nicole Letourneau attained Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding to study depression and resilience in APrON youth between 15 and 17 years of age.

Nicole Letourneau has built on this success, with the VID-KIDS study funded by CIHR, focused on supporting depressed mothers' parent-infant relationship quality to promote infant mental health.

Nicole Letourneau is married to Dean Mullin and has two sons.