Full professor
School of Psychology
Faculty of Social Sciences

Pre Muckle is the director of the Population Health and Optimal Health Practices axis at the CRCHU of Québec-Laval University and the deputy director of the FRQS network for research on the developmental and intergenerational origins of children’s health (ODISÉ). After holding a tenure-track position in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Laval University, she continued her career at the School of Psychology and also served as the Vice-Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She was notably a member of the advisory committee for the Health of Children and Adolescents Institute of the CIHR.

Her work focuses on substances that affect the developmental outcomes of children during the prenatal period and breastfeeding. They intersect the fields of epidemiology, toxicology, and child development and are based on prospective cohort studies initiated during pregnancy with a follow-up of children over several years.

She was among the principal initiators of two large prospective mother-child cohort studies, the Quebec 3D cohort and the pan-Canadian MIREC cohort, and also conducted a 20-year follow-up of an Inuit children cohort. Her research on the effects of exposure to environmental contaminants on child development and behavior has led to the publication of approximately 180 scientific articles and book chapters. They have also contributed to Canada’s signing of international conventions aimed at reducing and eliminating certain organochlorines and mercury due to their impacts on future generations.

Her current funding from CIHR and FRQS targets the effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on pregnancy and child health and contributes to establishing an open research infrastructure accessible to all, in the form of a pregnancy-initiated cohort.