Priscilla (Penny) Canny is Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director at Connecticut Voices for Children. Previously, she was Director of Research at CT Voices for nine years, and her responsibilities included background research, data analysis and document writing in policy areas such as indicators of child well being, child health, child poverty, youth surveys, and Census issues. She has prepared child indicator reports for Connecticut towns, written a primer on using data, a State of Connecticut Youth report and short census briefs.

Dr. Canny holds a Ph.D. degree from Yale University in Chronic Disease Epidemiology. She was previously the Assistant Dean at Yale's School of Public Health, administering the Masters' degree program and prior to that conducted research at Yale for many years. She still maintains an appointment at Yale's School of Public Health.

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Publications

April 2008	Income Gaps are Harming Connecticut's Children
October 2007	Immigration in Connecticut: A Growing Opportunity
May 2007	Connecticut's Children: Race and Ethnicity Matter
March 2007	Do Health Behaviors of Connecticut Youth Differ by Their Race and Ethnicity? The Connecticut School Health Survey 2005
September 2006	The Impact of Pregnancy-Related and Maternal Factors on Well-Baby Care in HUSKY A For Babies Born in 2003
July 2006	District Reference Groups (DRGs) Formerly Educational Reference Groups (ERGs)
July 2005	Population Estimates for Connecticut Cities and Towns: 2000-2004
January 2005	Immigration in Connecticut
June 2004	Parental Employment and its Impact on Children
November 2003	Child Poverty and Poverty Measures in Connecticut: Census Connections --Volume 1, Issue 3
September 2003	Housing: Home Ownership in Connecticut: Census Connections -- Volume 1, Issue 2
August 2003	State of Connecticut's Youth 2003
July 2003	Connecticut's Children: Race and Ethnicity Matter: Census Connections -- Volume 1, Issue 1
March 2003	Gathering Data for Connecticut Towns: A Primer Volume 1. Birth to 8 years
November 2002	Children's Health in Connecticut
August 2002	Child and Family Poverty in Connecticut: 1990 and 2000
November 2000	State of the Child - New Britain Children and Youth 2000
February 2000	Barriers to Employment in the Connecticut Safety Net Population
November 1999	New Haven Children and Youth 1999 Update
October 1998	State of the New Haven Child