Betty Newson is a graduate of McGill University (B.Sc.) with 30 years of experience in health and social services in Quebec, Newfoundland and PEI, and internationally with CUSO, teaching nutrition and child health in Nigeria. Betty has also participated in federal/provincial committees developing national prenatal and child nutrition standards, Canada's Food Guide, national body-weight standards, and perinatal and reproductive surveillance systems.
Betty has extensive experience as a volunteer with non-government organizations: board member and president, 1989-90, Tremploy (Sheltered Workshop for Mentally Handicapped; board member and president, 1993-94, Dietitians of Canada introducing the John Carver Policy Governance Model; board member, Grace Christian School; Board member, Atlantic Research Center on Mental Retardation, volunteer: Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, AFS (international student exchange host family), Confederation Center Girl’s Choir, and Canadian Pony Club.
She is currently employed part time as a policy analyst with the PEI Dept. of Health and Social Services, operates a seasonal ecotourism business in rural PEI in partnership with her husband Jim, and has recently begun consulting on health and social policy issues.
- Principles to Guide a Unified Funding Model For Non-Medicare (Non-insured) Health and Social Services (pdf)