📢Registration is now open for Healthy Starts Research Day 2023! Join us on Feb 1st at BCCHR to learn about the amazing #research being done by our community. bit.ly/HSRD2023_regis… (deadline 12pm Jan 24th).

New #research findings from Healthy Starts Investigator Stuart Turvey and members of the Turvey lab using data from the CHILD Cohort Study. Great to see this important work on #asthma getting lots of attention!

Our researchers shone at the Michael Smith @hlthresearchbc awards in September! Not only did Drs. Jessica Dennis, Ramon Klein Geltink & Marianne Vidler take home Scholar awards, but 6 trainees were also recognized with Research Trainee awards: bcchr.info/3BmWp6X

#BCCHR2022

Looking forward to following the progress of this important new #CIHR grant that involves Healthy Starts Affiliate Investigator @PabloNepomnasc1.

This is a great opportunity for all our Healthy Starts #trainees who focus on #GlobalHealth . We look forward to seeing your video submissions!

A fantastic opportunity to secure #interdisciplinary #MSc or #PhD training under the supervision of our Healthy Starts investigators!

Important new work on #RSV in children from Healthy Starts researchers Pascal Lavoie, David Goldfarb, Alfonso Solimano, and colleagues.

Curious about #monkeypox in Canada?
Join our virtual seminar on Tuesday November 29 from 11 - 12PM PDT. Dr. Tan, an infectious disease specialist at St. Michael’s, will share what has been learned since Monkeypox's arrival in Canada. For an invite email [email protected]

A warm congratulations to Healthy Starts Investigator, Dr. Laura Sauve for being awarded the 2022 AAP BC Chapter Award from the BC Pediatric Society. Terrific achievement!

In 2021, births at home or a birth center was highest ever in Canada in 2021 (2.4%)! Demonstrates the hard work of Canadian midwives to support the many *more* families seeking home birth since the pandemic. @AlixandraBacon Midwives Association of BC Canadian Association of Midwives www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…

Paediatricians and other child health care providers are often a family’s first point of contact to address #MentalHealth problems. Out today – 2 new guidance documents on the dx and tx of #anxiety disorders in children and youth: ow.ly/68kY50LfMFT

Yesterday, we kicked off #MiniMedSchool in-person for the 1st time since 2019! SFU Health Sciences Dr. Waddell & UBC Medicine BC Children's Hospital Dr. Mah spoke to hundreds of high school students on mental health. Recordings will be available at bcchr.ca in the new year.

Want to learn how to make your research data open? Join our 'Open Data for Clinical Trials' workshop on November 9 from 12 - 1 p.m. Register here: bit.ly/3EEQA8f

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A warm congratulations to #HealthyStarts PIs and their teams for receiving 2022 Michael Smith Michael Smith Health Research BC awards! Dr. Manish Sadarangani received a Reach award and Dr. Gina Ogilvie MD DrPH received a C2 award: bcchr.info/3ED22kC
#C2 #KT #childhealth

Congratulations to #HealthyStarts investigators @DrSethifer and Dr. Manon Ranger for their great work and their projects which have received funding through the BC Knowledge Development Fund!

Are you working on women’s or children’s digital health research? Submit your abstract now for BCCHR and Women's Health Research Institute digital health week! bit.ly/3e26oa1

#DigitalHealth #ChildrensHealth #WomensHealth #Innovation Provincial Health Services Authority

Congratulations to Healthy Starts Investigators David Goldfarb and Dr. Patricia Janssen for receiving 2022 Faculty of Medicine Awards!

Join us and UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems on Sept 30th for an intergenerational march to commemorate #OrangeShirtDay . We hope that the stat holiday will allow faculty, staff, students and community members join the march and engage with the UBC #Indigenous community. apsc.ubc.ca/event/2022/int…

A warm congratulations to former Healthy Starts Theme Director, Dr. Michael Kobor, for receiving the 2022 Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship!

Congrats to the BC Children's Hospital researchers who are Michael Smith @hlthresearchbc award winners! Dr. Jessica Dennis, Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink & Dr. Marianne Vidler received Scholar awards, and six BCCHR trainees received Research Trainee awards. Read more: bcchr.info/3BmWp6X