Dr. Monique Gagné Petteni is a Research Associate with the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Monique’s research is focused on understanding children’s developmental outcomes over time, and in the context of our contemporary, ever-changing, global world.
Currently, much of her research – funded through SSHRC and CIHR – leverages HELP’s child development monitoring system data (e.g., the Early Development Instrument) linked to population-level, government administrative data (e.g., health, education, immigration records) in order to track children’s developmental health and well-being from early childhood through to young adulthood.
Her research addresses child development in the context of some of the most important issues of our time (mental health, unprecedented global migration, and the climate crisis) with the aim of understanding how we can best support the long-term developmental health and well-being of children and youth from diverse backgrounds across BC.