Dr. Sheila McDonald

Dr. Sheila McDonald is Lead Scientist of the All Our Families cohort, and a Research Scientist in Maternal Child Health in the Department of Research and Innovation in Alberta Health Services. She is also an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She has methodological skills in research methods, complex data sets, and longitudinal analysis, and content expertise in maternal mental health, birth outcomes, and child development. She is a co-investigator on a number of provincial and nationally funded research projects in maternal and child health. Her contributions to the field have included development of a psychosocial screening tool for poor maternal mental health using information in the prenatal period, and modeling the impact of life course stress and allostatic load on the risk for poor birth outcomes. Other interests and contributions include work on Adverse Childhood Experiences and childhood resilience.