After obtaining a PhD in psychology from Laval University in 1993, Dr. Muckle completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Wayne State University (Detroit) and at the CHUL Research Center. She was first hired in 1997 as professor at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Laval University, then in 2003 by the School of Psychology of the same institution. Meanwhile, she was a member of the advisory committee of the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child, and Youth Health, and of the Chemicals Management Plan Challenge Advisory Panel, which advises the Canadian government on chemical risks. Since 2016, Dr. Muckle is Vice-Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Laval University.

Dr. Muckle’s research approach encompasses epidemiology, toxicology, and developmental psychology. In addition to studying the toxicity of prenatal alcohol exposure, she pursues research on the developmental effects of exposure to environmental contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Dr. Muckle’s work showed associations between contaminants and physical development, fine motor function, as well as with behavioral aspects, such as attention problems, and also with indicators of cognitive development.

Dr. Muckle’s interest for the adverse effects of exposure to environmental contaminants led her to work with the most highly exposed populations, among them mothers and children from Guadeloupe exposed to the pesticide chlordecone and, above all, with the Inuit population of Northern Canada, who are exposed to industrial contaminants through their traditional diet. This work allowed her to develop a strong expertise in creating and following longitudinal cohorts, which are rarely conducted in aboriginal people. Dr. Muckle’s recent work extends to determinants of health among the Inuit, notably by her collaboration with the Nunavik Inuit Health Surveys Qanuippitaa? in 2004 and Qanuilirpitaa? in 2017.

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Dewailly E, Pereg D, Ayotte P, Muckle G, Weber JP, Grey M, Déry S

Monitoring spatial and temporal trends of environmental pollutants in maternal blood in Nunavik

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Watkins J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2004-2005 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 59-68, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2005, ISBN: 0662416279.

Brewster J, Beddard K, Myles E, Receveur O, Muckle G, Gagnon J, Loring E, Van Oostdam J

Monitoring temporal trends of human environmental contaminants in the NTW and Nunavut: Nunavut study

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Watkins J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2004-2005 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 13-15, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2005, ISBN: 0662416279.

Sandanger TM, Sandau CD, Patterson Jr DG, Muckle G, Dewailly E, Jacobson SW, Jacobson JL, Ayotte P

Concentrations of halogenated phenolic compounds in plasma samples from Inuit mothers and their newborns in Nunavik, Canada

Journal Article

Organohalogen Compd, 67 , 2005.

Van Oostdam J, Donaldson SG, Feeley M, Arnold D, Ayotte P, Bondy G, Chan L, Dewaily E, Furgal CM, Kuhnlein H, Loring E, Muckle G, Myles E, Receveur O, Tracy B, Gill U, Kalhok S

Human health implications of environmental contaminants in Arctic Canada: A review

Journal Article

Sci Total Environ, 351-352 , 2005.

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Després C, Beuter A, Richer F, Poitras K, Veilleux A, Ayotte P, Dewailly E, Saint-Amour D, Muckle G

Neuromotor functions in Inuit preschool children exposed to Pb, PCBs, and Hg

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Neurotoxicol Teratol, 27 (2), 2005.

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Myles E, MacKinnon J, Brewster J, Potyrala M, Receveur O, Chan L, Loring E, Paci C, Van Oostdam J, Muckle G, Shearer R, Watkins J, Feeley M, Déry S

Monitoring temporal trends of human environmental contaminants in the NWT and Nunavut : feasibility study

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2003-2004 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 107-111, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2004.

Dewailly E, Pereg D, Ayotte P, Muckle G, Vézina C, Bruneau S, Weber JP

Time trends of mother/child exposure to contaminants in the Canadian Arctic : Nunavik component

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2003-2004 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 77-82, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2004.

Muckle G, Myles E, Dewailly E, Ayotte P, Caughey A, Van Oostdam J

Determinants of child health and development as related to contaminants : feasibility of Nunavik cohort study expanded to the Baffin region

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2003-2004 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 99-101, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2004.

Muckle G, Després C, Saint-Amour D, Dewailly E, Ayotte P, Bastien CH, Beuter A, Roy MS, Veilleux A

Follow-up of preschool-aged children exposed to PCBs and mercury through fish and marine mammal consumption

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2003-2004 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 103-106, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2004.

Dewailly E, Dallaire F, Vézina C, Muckle G, Ayotte P, De Serres G, Bilrha H, Roy R, Belles-Isles M, Weber JP, Infante-Rivard C, Jacobson J

Effects of prenatal exposure to organochlorines and mercury on the immune system of Inuit infants

Book Chapter

Smith S, Stow J, Carrillo F (Ed.): Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2003-2004 Northern Contaminants Program, pp. 63-70, Ottawa, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2004.

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