After graduating from the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Nursing in 1971, Carole Daveluy taught in the Department of Nursing Techniques at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil. She obtained her M.Sc. from the Université de Montréal's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in 1978. She was then put in charge of the school health program at the Cité de la Santé's Community Health Department in Laval, where she became health program coordinator in 1980. From 1985 to 1989, she worked as a health planning advisor in the same department. Since 1989, she has been coordinator at Santé Québec, a health and social survey center.
