Program Overview
The Child Health and Human Development Program (CHHD) was created after collective reflection in several key areas. Since early life events and factors have the potential to dictate lifelong human health, it is essential to increase our understanding of these factors in order to develop novel detection methods and therapies. Besides needing to learn more about genetics and developmental processes, we are now starting to see that early environmental factors may modulate epigenetic changes that can affect health changes decades later. Chronic childhood disease also plays a role in cognitive and identity development, underlining the need to amalgamate the strengths of researchers in many disciplines into a single, unified program. The CHHD Program therefore builds on four main themes that study different aspects of child health and human development:
- Human reproduction and development
- Molecular and cellular determinants of child health
- Neuropsychological and vision health
- Health outcomes in childhood disease.
Leadership and Management | ||||
The Child Health and Human Development Program has a management committee composed of the program leadership, representatives from the Centre for Translational Biology (CTB) and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), external members and trainees. This committee meets four times a year to discuss program-related concerns, problems, and strategy. Committee members include:
Kolja Eppert, PhD: Program Co-Leader Isabelle Gagnon, PhD: Program Co-Leader Fanny Toussaint, PhD: Program Manager Dr. Indra Gupta: CTB Representative Dr. Evelyn Constantin: CORE Representative Ciriaco Piccirillo, PhD: External Member
|