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DR. ROSE-MARIE DUGUAY
Faculté des sciences de l’éducation, Université de Moncton, N.-B.

Après avoir complété un B. A. et un B. Ed. à l’Université de Moncton et une Maîtrise en Éducation (mention rééducation) à l’Université du Maine (É.-U.), Mme Duguay a obtenu un Doctorat en Éducation de l’Université de Montréal. Pendant sa carrière, elle a été enseignante au primaire, directrice d’école et conseillère provinciale au Ministère de l’éducation (N.-B.), responsable du programme préscolaire. Elle a aussi travaillé en intervention précoce, de même qu’en rééducation avec les enfants du niveau primaire qui fréquentaient les classes d’immersion en langue française

Actuellement, Mme Duguay enseigne au Département d’enseignement au primaire et en psychopédagogie (DEPP) à l’Université de Moncton. Entre autres responsabilités, elle dirige plusieurs étudiants au niveau de la Maîtrise et du Doctorat. Elle assure l’enseignement des cours de planification et d’évaluation au préscolaire et de développement du langage. Elle a signé plusieurs articles portant notamment sur la littérature enfantine, le développement du langage chez les jeunes enfants francophones et la formation du personnel qui désire travailler auprès des jeunes enfants. Elle a aussi publié des cahiers d’activités en littérature enfantine pour les enfants de quatre à sept ans.

Mme Duguay est membre fondatrice du Groupe de recherche en petite enfance (GRPE), situé à la Faculté des sciences de l’éducation, Université de Moncton. Elle a effectué une série de recherches « Comprendre la petite enfance » dans les communautés francophones du N.-B. Sous sa direction, le GRPE a récemment publié le Curriculum éducatif pour les services de garde francophones du N.-B. Présentement, elle prépare une série de cahiers pédagogiques pour aider les éducatrices à appliquer le Curriculum éducatif auprès des enfants.

CAROLYN DUHAMEL
Executive Director, Manitoba School Boards Association

Carolyn has been the Executive Director of the Manitoba School Boards Association since 2000.  Carolyn began her career in education as an elementary teacher, graduating from Lakehead Teachers’ College in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1969.  She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Master in Education degree from the University of Ottawa.

Carolyn has worked extensively in the area of governance, in both the non-profit and education sectors.  Before assuming her current position, Ms Duhamel served from 1997 to 2000 as Executive Director of the Manitoba Council for Leadership in Education.  Her board service experience includes 11 years as an elected school trustee in Manitoba and 10 years on the Board of Governors of Manitoba’s French language university.

Carolyn has been a director of the Canadian Education Association since 2002 and served two years as association president from 2006 to 2008.  She was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Winnipeg Foundation in April, 2009.

ASHLEY GASKIN
EDI Implementation and Reporting Manager, Offord Centre for Child Studies

Ashley Gaskin is a research coordinator at the Offord Centre for Child Studies and member of the School Readiness to Learn team since 2004.  In this role Ashley is responsible for organizing, implementing, monitoring, refining, analyzing, and  reporting for sites across Canada involved in the Early Development Instrument (EDI) data collection.  Ashley is also the acting coordinator of the Offord Centre e-EDI system.  Ashley holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario and is in the final stages of completing a Master’s degree in Health Research Methodology with a concentration on Public and Population Health from McMaster University.

JENNIFER HARVEY
Chief Technical Officer, HELP’s Early Child Development Mapping Project

Jennifer Harvey is the Chief Technical Officer of Human Early Learning Partnership’s ECD Mapping Project.  In this role, Jennifer is responsible for leading HELP’s knowledge translation research.  Jennifer’s current research and practice focuses on the connections between health, place, community and the power of maps in bringing together and visualizing these elements. As a co-author on Creating Communities for Young Children: a Toolkit for Change, Jennifer has influenced a broader understanding of and an engagement in local knowledge translation activities related to early child development.  She also leads HELP’s cartographic team in producing hundreds of population-level maps related to the state of early child development on an annual basis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Graphic Design
packages, and innovative open-source mapping technologies to effectively convey large amounts of data to a broad audience. Jennifer is also leading the Knowledge Visualization component of the National EDI knowledge transfer strategy that has its roots in HELP’s knowledge translation model.  

SARAH HENRY
Healthy Child Development Coordinator, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, PEI

Sarah has a Masters Degree in Psychology of Education from Simon Fraser University, completed her undergraduate studies at Mount Allison University, and has attended the Management Skills Program and Education Program at UPEI.

Sarah has been with the Province of PEI for 6 years, working as a researcher / planner, and then in policy and planning in the area of healthy child development. Prior to working with the province, Sarah was the Project Coordinator for the Understanding the Early Years project on PEI, and did contract work with the Faculty of Education at UPEI and with the Learning Technology and Applied Research Branch at HRSDC, Government of Canada. Sarah was also a co-owner in a restaurant and catering business in Charlottetown for 10 years. Sarah lives in Charlottetown with her 7 year old son, David and 5 year old daughter, Ella.

DR. CLYDE HERTZMAN
Director, Human Early Learning Partnership, President, Council for Early Child Development

Dr. Hertzman is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), College of Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC; Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development and Professor in School of Population and Public Health at UBC.  He serves as Principal Investigator of the Provincial Early Child Development (ECD) Mapping Unit and the Child & Youth Developmental Trajectories Research Unit; and the Population Health and Learning Observatory. HELP has recently been designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Knowledge Hub on Early Child Development, and Dr. Hertzman is Team Leader of the Knowledge Hub and the global Knowledge Network.

Nationally, Dr. Hertzman is a fellow of the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Programme and the Successful Societies Programs of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR).  Dr. Hertzman has played a central role in creating a framework that links population health to human development, emphasizing the special role of early childhood development as a determinant of health. His research has contributed to international, national, provincial, and community initiatives for healthy child development.

DEBRA HUGHES
Research Coordinator, Offord Centre for Child Studies

Debra’s responsibilities at the Offord Centre involve the coordination and implementation of a SSHRC-funded research project studying the transition to school for children with special needs.  This project, under the direction of Magdalena Janus, blends her backgrounds in nursing and psychology.  Debra is a Registered Nurse (Ryerson University) and holds an MA in psychology from SUNY (Buffalo) as well as Clinical Trials Research certifications from McMaster University.