Elizabeth Keys

Post Doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University

Dr. Elizabeth Keys is a registered nurse with a clinical background in community and public health nursing focused on promoting child and family wellbeing in the community. The goal of her emerging program of research is to promote and maintain infant and parental mental health by supporting parent-child interactions and sleep health using innovative models of care, such as eHealth and precision health. Keys completed her PhD in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary, where she developed and evaluated a home visiting parent-child interaction intervention designed to improve infant sleep.

She is currently completing an interdisciplinary CIHR and honorary Killam postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, with Adjunct positions in the School of Nursing, Dalhousie University and the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary. Her postdoctoral research will develop a user-centred and evidence-based eHealth infant sleep intervention.