Research Administrative Assistant

Delilah Trenaman has worked with the UEY project for the past year in the capacity of Administrative Assistant to the Community Coordinator.  She initially became involved in the UEY project in the early winter of 2008 working on the survey team, conducting individual surveys with programs and services throughout the Southeast UEY region.  She brings to her position strong organisational skills, excellent people skills, and working knowledge of the field of early childhood, making her a strong part of the Southeast UEY team.  Delilah worked for many years as a childcare provider as well as in office administration and has 3 adult daughters.

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Brandy Winquist, PhD candidate
brandy.winquist@usask.ca
First Contact Researcher and Mapper

Brandy Winquist is a doctoral candidate in the department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Her PhD research focuses on key issues within the area of prenatal screening and diagnosis. Brandy is also a Strategic Training Fellow in the Community and Population Health Research training program. Dr. Muhajarine is both her PhD supervisor and mentor. In addition to her schooling, Brandy has worked in many capacities, both paid and volunteer. Most recently she has worked as a researcher within the Epidemiology, Research and Evaluation Unit at the Population Health Branch of Saskatchewan Health, as well as on numerous research and evaluation projects, such as the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, the Saskatchewan Maternal Serum Screening program evaluation, an assessment of Saskatchewan’s Child Death Review System, and for the Cypress Health Region as part of a “Data-to-Information Strategy.”
While her expertise lies mainly in the areas of epidemiology and population health, she has a longstanding interest in ethics, child and rural health and is an involved community member.
Brandy grew up in southwest Saskatchewan in the small town of Gull Lake and currently resides on a farm near Cabri with her new husband. She is eager to start working with the Understanding the Early Years project in Moose Jaw and area, and the Prairie Children...Prairie Futures UEY project in Southeast Saskatchewan, expecting it to be a fulfilling learning process.

Fleur Macqueen Smith, Masters Candidate
fleur.macqueensmith@usask.ca
Project Coordination and Knowledge Transfer

Fleur has worked as research and knowledge transfer officer in the Healthy Children research program led by Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine since 2004. She is a member of the Understanding the Early Years in Saskatoon study team. She has a degree in English and Business Studies from the University of Waterloo, and is currently pursuing an
Interdisciplinary Master's degree at the University of Saskatchewan, investigating strengthening researcher-decision maker relationships using new communications technologies. Prior to her work in SPHERU, Fleur has worked as a writer, editor and public relations officer at several universities and in the private sector. She lives in Saskatoon with her husband and four children.