https://youtu.be/EwW-lyXQSK4 On the eve of the BC Children’s Hospital Lottery winners’ announcement in late April 2022, CHILD Co-Director Dr. Stuart Turvey was interviewed on Global News about the CHILD Cohort Study. The Study is among the programs supported by proceeds … Continued
CHILD’s Deputy Director Dr. Meghan Azad is among five “rising stars” profiled in the Winter 2022 issue of Reach magazine, the annual publication of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). The article highlights Dr. Azad’s work, as an “early-career … Continued
CHILD participant Molly and her mother Krista CTV Winnipeg celebrates a decade of the CHILD Cohort Study in a report that aired on 20 October 2021. The report follows Manitoba-based Study participants 10-year-old Molly and her mother Krista into their … Continued
The new Winter 2021 edition of AllerGen Success Stories (Vol. 13) focuses entirely on CHILD research outcomes. In fact, the magazine, aimed to inform a general audience about advances in health research emerging from AllerGen-supported projects, has now been re-branded … Continued
COVID-19 illustrations by CHILD participants Today, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) posted a feature story on their website focusing on CHILD’s COVID-19 add-on study, an initiative led by Dr. Meghan Azad and funded by the CIHR, Research Manitoba … Continued
A high-profile online course features CHILD Cohort Study research and CHILD researcher Dr. Meghan Azad. The certified professional development course, entitled “Breast Milk Scientific,” focuses on current scientific insights into breastmilk, its relationship with the microbiome, and its contributions to … Continued
Ilsa Buchholz is one of the almost 3,500 kids participating in the CHILD Cohort Study. You can read about what being a part of CHILD means to Ilsa and her parents, what tests Ilsa undergoes every few years during her … Continued
Ongoing research led by Dr. Meghan Azad, using data from the CHILD Study, has shed light on the breastmilk microbiome and on breastfeeding’s protective effects against allergy and asthma, as well as obesity and diabetes. High-profile publications in recent years … Continued
The Winter 2019 issue of AllerGen Success Stories features two stories on findings from the CHILD Study. “All in Good Time” discusses with CHILD Founding Director Dr. Malcolm Sears his 2017 research that found delaying the introduction to infants of … Continued
In a November 18, 2018, opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “Save the Germs,” documentary filmmaker Sarah Schenck argues the case for the establishment of a “microbial vault” to preserve, for future use in combating disease, samples … Continued
