Peggy Edwards

Associate

Peggy Edwards is a health promotion consultant, an activist for the rights of older people, researcher and author on healthy aging. She is a former policy analyst with Health Canada, the Canadian Public Health Association and the World Health Organization (WHO). Peggy has co-authored several best-selling books on healthy aging, including one on grandparenting and regularly contributes to other publications, scholarly works and magazines. In 2016, she was awarded the Governor General’s Sovereign Medal for Volunteers in recognition of her work with the Council on Aging of Ottawa, The Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers Campaign, and the Grandmothers Advocacy Network.