The CHILD Cohort Study is multi-centre and multi-institutional study. The organizations and groups who are part of the study contribute in the form of “in-kind” supports, direct supports and specific donations. These supporting partners of the Study include:

UNIVERSITIES



  • McMaster University

  • The University of British Columbia

  • Simon Fraser University

  • University of Alberta

  • University of Manitoba

  • University of Toronto


HOSPITALS & HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRES


ALBERTA


  • Alberta Health Services: Sturgeon (St. Alberta, AB), Royal Alexandra (Lois Hole Hospital for Women) and Stollery Children’s Hospital (Edmonton, AB)

  • Covenant Health: Grey Nuns and Misericordia Hospitals (Edmonton, AB)

  • Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) (Edmonton, AB)


BRITISH COLUMBIA

  • BC Children’s Hospital (Vancouver, BC)

  • BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (formerly Child and Family Research Institute) (Vancouver, BC)

  • St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver, BC)


MANITOBA

  • Boundary Trails Health Centre (Winkler, MB)

  • Children’s Hospital of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, MB)

  • Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB)

  • Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg (Winnipeg, MB)

  • St. Boniface Hospital (Winnipeg, MB)


ONTARIO

  • Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health (Hamilton, ON)

  • Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit (Toronto, ON)

  • Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, ON)

  • Providence Health Care (Toronto, ON)

  • St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (Hamilton, ON)

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, ON)

  • The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, ON)

  • Women and Children’s Hospital


FOUNDATIONS & BUSINESS, INCLUDING NOT-FOR-PROFITS



  • Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS)

  • ALK Abello (Mississauga, ON)

  • Boehringer Ingelheim

  • Caritas Health Group

  • Childhood Asthma Foundation

  • Children’s Hospital Foundation

  • GlaxoSmithKline

  • HealthDiary

  • Lincoln Diagnostics (Decatur, IL USA)

  • The Lung Association

  • Methapharm Inc (Brantford, ON)

  • Popular Greetings Canada

  • Roche Genentech

  • Trudell Medical International (London, ON)


GOVERNMENT AGENCIES



  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

  • Environment Canada

  • Health Canada

  • Regional Health Authority Central Manitoba Inc.

  • Research Manitoba


International collaboration

The CHILD Cohort Study is involved in the following initiatives:

Resource Sharing

The CHILD Cohort Study has shared various study tools, methods, information and questionnaires with the following entities or projects:
  • Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University (Canada)
  • Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School (US)
  • Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin (US)
  • Growing up in New Zealand Project (New Zealand)
  • Institute for Environmental Research (Iran)
  • Life Study birth cohort (UK)
  • Microbioime Study, Maastricht University (Netherlands)
  • Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (Australia)
  • National Children’s Study (US)
  • ORIGINS Project birth cohort (Australia)
  • Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean (SLSJ) Study (Canada)
  • UGAAR Study (Mongolia)
  • University of Toronto Autism Study (Canada)