Marni Brownell

Marni Brownell is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and a senior research scientist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. She trained as a developmental psychologist and was a recipient of a Canadian Institutes for Health Research New Investigator Award.

Dr. Brownell uses administrative health and social service databases to examine child health and well-being, with a particular focus on the social determinants of health.  Her research program includes projects on early literacy, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and psychostimulant treatment, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, developmental disabilities, children in foster care, developing population-level indicators of child health, and evaluations of programs designed to improve early childhood development. She currently mentors 8 students as an advisor or committee member, and has trained several Master’s-level students and research assistants to work with the administrative child health and social services data held at MCHP.