Current Projects

RSC/CAHS Expert Panel on Early Childhood Development

2010.03 (Major Assessment)

Panel
Co-Chairs:

Michel Boivin, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Child Social Development, School of Psychology, Laval University: http://www.psy.ulaval.ca/ecole/personnel_enseignant/Boivin.htm Director of the Research Unit on Children’s Psycho-Social Maladjustment (GRIP), Laval University, and leader of the Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Child Development (SRC-ECD), a pan-Canadian consortium on ECD knowledge mobilization.

Clyde Hertzman, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Care and Epidemiology in the School of Population Health and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development, University of British Columbia: http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/about/faculty/hertzman He is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), College for Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC, and a Fellow of the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Program, the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is also the President of the Canadian Council on Early Child Development.

Panel Members:

• Ronald Barr, MD, Head, Department of Developmental Neurosciences and Child Health, Professor of Paediatrics, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health, and Director of the Centre for Community Health Research, University of British Columbia:
  http://www.cfri.ca/our_research/researchers/search_researchers/researcher_detail.asp?ID=10
• Thomas Boyce, MD, Professor of Paediatrics, Sunnyhill Health Centre Leadership Chair in Child Development at the Human Learning Partnership, UBC and the Centre for Community Health Research at BC Children’s Hospital, University of British Columbia:
  http://www.cfis.ubc.ca/faculty/directory/boyce.html
• Harriet MacMillan, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies, McMaster University: http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/ceb/faculty_member_macmillan.htm
• Candice Odgers, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behaviour, University of California, Irvine.
• Marla Sokolowski, PhD, Professor of Biology, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Generics and Behavioural Neurology, and Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto: http://www.csb.utoronto.ca/faculty/sokolowski-marla-b
• Nico Trocme, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work, Director of Center for Research on Children and Families, McGill University: http://www.mcgill.ca/crcf/people/ntrocme/

Assessment Document
http://www.cahs-acss.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ECD_press_release.pdf

Confirmed Sponsor
Norlien Foundation of Calgary

 

Dietary Reference Intakes Vitamin D and Calcium

2008.12 (Consensus Report)

Panel
David Goltzman (Chair)
Stephanie Atkinson
Pierre-Gerlier Forest
Katherine Gray-Donald
David A. Hanley
Millan Patel
Harvey A Skinner
Reinhold Vieth
Leanne Marie Ward

Assessment Document
http://www.cahs-acss.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Vitamin-D-Assessment.pdf

Confirmed Sponsor
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada

 

Improving Access to Oral Health Care

2008.02 (Major Assessment – Pending Full Sponsorship)

Panel
to be named

Assessment Document
Download the Prospectus for Access to Oral Health Care [PDF] 224KB, 11 pages
Comment améliorer l’accès aux soins dentaires [PDF] 256KB, 12 pages