Ms. Marilyn Van Bibber
Marilyn Van Bibber has spent the last twenty-five years working for First Nations and Aboriginal organizations in BC and Yukon. Her education is in nursing, midwifery and political science. Van Bibber has a long standing commitment to Aboriginal community health issues and the promotion of healthy families. She is a founding member of the Aboriginal Nurses of Canada, the BC FAS Resource Society and the Medical Services Foundation Ethics Review Committee (Vancouver Foundation).
Van Bibber has participated in numerous community research projects including health needs assessments, evaluations and maternal child health. She has served on, or made submissions to, a number of panels for health, social development, self-government and environmental issues. She researched and wrote the Health Canada publication, It Takes a Community; A Resource Manual on Community-Based Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects and is currently working on the second edition.
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