Deborah McNeil

Dr. Deborah Ann McNeil

BScN, MN, PhD
Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Adjunct Associate Professor

Faculty of Nursing, Adjuncts

Child Health & Wellness Researcher

Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute

Adjunct Associate Professor

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences

Committee Member

O'Brien Institute for Public Health

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

Office: 403.616.2040

For media enquiries, contact

Lynda Sea, Senior Manager - Communications

Office: +1.403.471-9762
Email: lsea@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @ucalgarynursing

Background

Educational Background

PhD Epidemiology, University of Calgary, 2008

MN University of Calgary, 1985

BScN State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973

Biography

Deborah McNeil worked in the Alberta health system for over 48 years as a clinician, clinical educator, manager, embedded researcher and scientist. She led as Director and Scientific Director research departments in maternal child and public health in the former Calgary Health Region and Alberta Health Services.  |Her research activities cover multiple content areas in maternal child health with both qualitative and quantitative research methods to address policy and practice priorities in the health care system using integrated knowledge translation. She led or participated in 22 funded research studies with a current focus on health system implementation strategies and science. She has been mentoring graduate students for the past 30 years initially focused on clinical supervision and has supported over 30 students in master's and doctoral studies as well as post doctoral fellows..

Research

Areas of Research

Family Integrated Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Perinatal depression and anxiety
Health equity and the social determinants of health
Childhood immunization
Pre- and post-natal care for mothers and newborns
Mental Illness
Population Health
Vaccination
Activities

Perinatal depression and anxiety, measuring health inequities, childhood immunization and group pre and post natal care.

Participation in university strategic initiatives