Deborah Dewey is a Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and the co-lead on the Alberta Pregnancy and Nutrition (APrON) study. Her innovative and interdisciplinary research program examines environment influences on maternal and child health, and child neurodevelopment in Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. She is an elected Fellow of the prestigious Association for Psychological Science and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. She obtained a BA in Psychology, University of Saskatchewan in 1977, an MA in Psychology, University of Saskatchewan in 1981, an MSc in Kinesiology, University of Waterloo in 1986, and a PhD in Psychology, University of Calgary in 1990.