Fiona Hanley

RN Nursing Course Coordinator, McGill University/ Nursing Faculty Dawson College

environmental health, climate change and health, nurses and environmental health, reproductive and developmental environmental health, children's environmental health

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Biography

Fiona Hanley is the Quebec representative for the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment: an associate group of the Canadian Nurses Association dedicated to the advancement of environmental health across all aspects of nursing practice. She is also Vice-President of Synergie Santé Environnement, a Quebec non-profit organization which works with health care organizations to help guide them develop more sustainable practices, increase their knowledge of the links between health and the environment, and decrease practices harming the environment. Hanley is a member of the newly-formed Climate Committee with the Quebec Order of Nurses, and co-authored a position statement on climate for release in November 2019. She was also a member of the expert committee for the 2019 position statement for the SIDIIEF: Infirmières et infirmiers à l'avant-garde d'une planète en santé. Hanley is also a nursing professor, with many years of teaching at Dawson College, where she was also the program coordinator for 5 years. She is currently teaching at McGill University. She has a licentiate of music from Trinity College of Music London, a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Nursing Science from the University of Alberta, and a Master’s of Nursing Science from the University of Montreal.

Expertise

  • environmental health
  • climate change and health
  • nurses and environmental health
  • reproductive and developmental environmental health
  • children's environmental health