CHILD Cohort Study video: New scientific insights into breastfeeding

The CHILD Cohort Study’s new video about the study’s breastfeeding research is now available. The playfully animated short video, CHILD Cohort Study: New scientific insights into breastfeeding, presents numerous CHILD research findings about breastfeeding and its impact on children’s health and development.

Watch the video:

About the CHILD Cohort Study

The CHILD Cohort Study is a prospective longitudinal birth cohort study. This means that CHILD researchers are actively following the Study participants over time as they grow and develop—from mid-pregnancy into childhood and adolescence. CHILD is designed this way so it can collect information at time points that are considered to be especially critical to the health and development of children.

By following the children prospectively as they grow, as opposed to retrospectively (looking back), CHILD researchers are able to more accurately learn about how different early-life exposures relate to health and disease outcomes.

CHILD findings will influence medical practice, parenting choices, consumer product regulation and policy development—from building codes and household purchasing behaviours to decisions about childbirth and delivery, diet , breastfeeding, cleaning products used in homes, owning a family pet and dealing with stress.

CHILD is the largest multidisciplinary, longitudinal, population-based birth cohort study in Canada and is designed to be one of the most informative studies of its kind in the world.

For more information and the latest findings from the CHILD Cohort Study, visit www.childstudy.ca.

Guiding Youth through COVID-19: A Webinar for Youth Allies

In partnership with Alberta Health Services, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is hosting “Guiding Youth through COVID-19: A Webinar for Youth Allies” on Monday, June 29, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., EST. This webinar is intended for parents, teachers, coaches, counsellors, healthcare professionals and anyone in a position to support and nurture open discussions with youth about substance use and mental health. It will cover the following topics:

• Experiences of youth during COVID-19 and implications for substance use and mental health;

• The impacts of media and social isolation on youth;

• A mental health literacy approach and how it relates to COVID-19;

• Guidance for providing youth with mental health support and harm reduction messaging during the pandemic and beyond, and

• COVID-19 resources for youth.

Register here for the webinar.

Parachute presents Upstream: The importance of prevention

An online talk by New York Times best-selling author Dan Heath

On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 1 p.m. EDT, National Injury Prevention Day, Upstream author Dan Heath will share solutions for preventing problems, rather than reacting to them. 

A question-and-answer period will follow the talk.

The webinar will be hosted by Pamela Fuselli, President and CEO of Parachute.

Register here for the webinar.

Children's Healthcare Canada: Call for Abstracts

2020 will mark a special edition of the Children's Healthcare Canada flagship annual conference. In an effort to keep delegates and their families safe and closer to the patients they are caring for, the event this year will leverage digital technology to bring attendees face to face with thought leaders and influencers in children’s health.

Do you have a program, project or initiative you'd like to feature on Children’s Healthcare Canada’s virtual stage? They have updated their 2020 Call for Abstracts to match the new conference format and are now accepting abstracts for three different aspects of the program.

1. The Virtual Poster Fair

2. Concurrent Sessions

3. How COVID Changed My Practice

The 2020 call for abstracts will be open until July 15, 2020.

Visit the conference website to learn more about the abstract criteria and submission requirements.

Inaugural recipient of the Sears Undergraduate Summer Studentship

Source: CHILD Cohort Study

The CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) has launched the Sears Undergraduate Summer Studentship – a special training award for an undergraduate university student to work with a CHILD research team for 12 weeks.

Faith Kirabo, a student at the University of Manitoba, is the inaugural recipient of the award.

Faith is working with Dr. Meghan Azad (co-lead, CHILD Manitoba site) and the CHILD team in Winnipeg to study whether living in the city (urban environment) or country (rural environment) makes a difference in whether a child develops allergies.

This Studentship was established in honour of Dr. Malcolm Sears, Director of CHILD until 2017, and illustrates the Study’s commitment to cultivating an interest in the fields of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) and in allergic and related immune diseases research among undergraduate students.