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Meet the Author

Louise Hanvey has been the Project Director for the Canadian Council on Social Development's Progress of Canada's Children and Youth for the past five editions. She was the research director and a principal author of the Health of Canada's Children: A CICH Profile, Editions 1 and 2. Louise also facilitated the development of Health Canada's Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines, and was the principal editor of that document. Louise has been working in research and advocacy regarding children and youth for over 20 years. She has a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Manitoba (1974) and a Masters of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa (1981). Louise works with young people at the Sexual Health Centre, City of Ottawa Public Health Department as a public health nurse.

About the CCSD

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