Legacy Project
Formerly the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study
Research Leaders
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| Dr. P.J. Subbarao, Director & Toronto site leader; Staff Respirologist, The Hospital for Sick Children; Assistant Professor, Paediatrics, University of Toronto | Dr. Stuart Turvey, Co-Director & Vancouver site leader; Professor, Pediatrics, The University of British Columbia |
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| Dr. Allan Becker, Winnipeg site leader; Professor, Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba | Dr. Piush Mandhane, Edmonton site leader; Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Alberta | Dr. Malcolm Sears, Founding Director; Professor, Respirology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University |
Strategic Focus
The CHILD Cohort Study—a nationwide birth cohort study involving over 3,300 Canadian infants and their families—explores how genetics and early childhood environmental exposures impact the development of asthma, allergies and other chronic childhood diseases.
CHILD Study Publications
CHILD Cohort Study News
CHILD Cohort Study website
Synergy in Microbiota Research (SyMBIOTA) website
- a $2.5 million CIHR-funded project using CHILD Cohort Study data and biological samples
Video: Link between traffic pollution and allergy risk
Video introduction to the CHILD Cohort Study—Understanding allergies, asthma and chronic disease
Select Media Coverage
CHILD Cohort Study Projects
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An Assessment of Long-Term Indoor Residential Pollution Exposures among Canadian Children |
2009 - 2011 |
Allen, Ryan; Beischlag, Tim; Brauer, Michael; Brook, Jeff; Kollmann, Tobias; Lanphear, Bruce; Scott, James; Subbarao, Padmaja; Takaro, Timothy |
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CHILD Coordinator 3-year Clinic Training Session Workshop in Manitoba |
2012 - 2013 |
Becker, Allan; Chikuma, Joyce; Chooniedass, Rishma; Duncan, Joanne; Lefebvre, Diana; Mauro, Mary Ann; Sears, Malcolm; Warner, Linda |
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CHILD Executive Meeting Workshop in Toronto |
2012 - 2013 |
Becker, Allan; Befus, Dean; Brook, Jeff; Denburg, Judah; Duncan, Joanne; Lefebvre, Diana; Lou, Wendy; Mandhane, Piush; Miller, Greg; O’Byrne, Paul; Sandford, Andrew; Sears, Malcolm; Subbarao, Padmaja; Turvey, Stuart |
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CHILD Operating Grant |
2013 - 2015 |
Sears, Malcolm |
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Do indoor exposures to phthalates act independently or as an adjuvant in the development of inflammation and allergic disease? |
2011 - 2012 |
Takaro, Timothy |
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Expansion of existing capacity of immunology platform to support Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development study (birth cohort) |
2006 - 2008 |
Kollmann, Tobias; Turvey, Stuart |
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Gender-related biologic and sociologic impact of obesity |
2005 - 2006 |
Becker, Allan; Benoit, Cecilia; Dean, Heather; Gounni, Abdel; Marchessault, Gail; Sellers, Elizabeth; Taylor, Carla |
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Improved Tools for Assessing Long-Term Indoor and Outdoor Exposures in Epidemiologic Studies of Allergy and Asthma & Repeat Home Visits and Alternative Sampling Techniques in the Mini-CHILD Study (Mini-CHILD II) |
2009 - 2011 |
Allen, Ryan; Beischlag, Tim; Brauer, Michael; Brook, Jeff; Kollmann, Tobias; Lanphear, Bruce; Scott, James; Subbarao, Padmaja; Takaro, Timothy; Wheeler, Amanda |
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Infant Inflammatory Markers and Lung Function |
2005 - 2006 |
Post, Martin; Ratjen, Felix; Sears, Malcolm; Subbarao, Padmaja |
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Mini-CHILD: AllerChip – Development, Validation and Implementation of a Microarray Genotyping Tool for Allergy and Asthma Research |
2007 - 2009 |
Abugharbieh, Rafeed; Sandford, Andrew; Tebbutt, Scott; Wilkinson, Mark; Zamar, Ruben |
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Mini-CHILD: Assessment of the home environment (Success Stories profile) |
2007 - 2009 |
Allen, Ryan; Brauer, Michael; Kollmann, Tobias; Scott, James; Subbarao, Padmaja; Takaro, Timothy; Turvey, Stuart |
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Mini-CHILD: Development of objective measurement of airway inflammation and lung function in infants (Success Stories profile) |
2007 - 2009 |
Adamko, Darryl; Befus, Dean; Post, Martin; Ratjen, Felix; Subbarao, Padmaja |
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Mini-CHILD Environment – Assessment of Land Use Regression (Success Stories profile) |
2007 - 2009 |
Allen, Ryan; Becker, Allan; Brauer, Michael; Carlsten, Chris; Chan-Yeung, Moira |
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Mini-CHILD: Environmental assessment of molecular genetic characterization of microbes in outdoor and indoor air and dust |
2007 - 2009 |
Brook, Jeff; Dell, Sharon; Gold, Diane; Nakatsu, Cindy; Scott, James; Scott, Jeremy; Sears, Malcolm; Seifert, Keith; Silverman, Frances; Summerbell, Richard; Takaro, Timothy; Untereiner, Wendy |
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Mini-CHILD: Psychosocial Assessment and Epigenetics (Success Stories profile) |
2007 - 2009 |
Chen, Edith; Kobor, Michael; Miller, Greg |
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Mini-CHILD: Recruitment |
2007 - 2009 |
Kollmann, Tobias; Turvey, Stuart |
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Moving forward with birth cohort research in Canada: The legal and ethical foundations for the CHILD study |
2006 - 2008 |
Caulfield, Timothy; Ries, Nola |
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Ontogeny and genetic polymorphisms of the innate immune system intersecting in asthma (Success Stories profile) |
2007 - 2009 |
Kollmann, Tobias; Turvey, Stuart |
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Phthalate Exposure in Canadian Children during the First Three Years of Life |
2011 - 2014 |
Takaro, Timothy; Wheeler, Amanda |
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Mini-CHILD: Psycho-social Assessment and Epigenetics |
2007 - 2009 |
Chen, Edith; Miller, Greg |
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The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study |
2007 - 2016 |
Allen, Ryan; Becker, Allan; Befus, Dean; Brauer, Michael; Brook, Jeff; Chen, Edith; Cyr, Michael; Daley, Denise; Dell, Sharon; Denburg, Judah; Elliott, Susan; Grasemann, Hartmut; HayGlass, Kent; Hegele, Richard; Holness, D.; Kobor, Michael; Kollmann, Tobias; Kozyrskyj, Anita; Laprise, Catherine; Larché, Mark; Lou, Wendy; Macri, Joseph; Mandhane, Piush; Martinez, Fernando; Miller, Greg; Moqbel, Redwan; Moraes, Theo; Paré, Peter; Ramsey, Clare; Ratjen, Felix; Ritchie, Bruce; Sandford, Andrew; Scott, James; Scott, Jeremy; Sears, Malcolm; Silverman, Frances; Sly, Peter; Stanojevic, Sanja; Subbarao, Padmaja; Takaro, Timothy; Tang, Patrick; Tebbutt, Scott; To, Teresa; Turvey, Stuart; von Mutius, Erika; Becker, Allan; Brauer, Michael; Cyr, Michael; de Souza, Russell; Denburg, Judah; Elliott, Susan; Hystad, Perry; Kumar, Rajesh; Stearns, Jennifer; Surette, Michael |
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Understanding the Impact of Maternal and Infant Nutrition on Infant/Child Health |
2014 - 2015 |
Anand, Sonia; |
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A feasibility study to develop an exposure model for indoor air contaminants and to collect genetic data on an asthmatic cohort |
2005 - 2006 |
Dufresne, Andre; Infante-Rivard, Claire |
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Collaboration between the CHILD Study and START study (Annual Report story) |
2011 - 2013 |
Subbarao, Padmaja |