CHILD Study Knowledge Mobilization

The Sandbox Project was founded on a 2007 report prepared for the Federal Minister of Health, entitled Reaching for the Top: A Report by the Advisor on Healthy Children and Youth. This report made five key recommendations aimed at improving the health status of Canadian children and youth, one being: “to undertake a Longitudinal Cohort Study to provide data on the health of Canadian children and youth to help understand environmental factors impacting children’s health.”

The CHILD (Canadian Health Infant Longitudinal Development) Study is Canada’s direct response to this call to action and a valuable national resource that will yield innovative discoveries about child and youth health for years to come.

About the ChILD Study

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.

The CHILD Study is generating new knowledge to inform policy development in areas of vital importance to Canadians.  CHILD Study 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.

In its role on the CHILD Study Knowledge Mobilization Stakeholder Advisory Committee, The Sandbox Project is helping to facilitate two-way exchange between Study experts and stakeholders within the Sandbox network.

More

·       News: CHILD spotlighted at national child & youth health summit

·       Presentation deck: CHILD Study at the 2018 Sandbox Summit (Presented by Dr. Meghan Azad)