By participating in CHILD, you are enabling the advancement of knowledge and helping to build a healthier future for children everywhere.
Thanks to you, CHILD is advancing health science in two main ways.
CHILD is a producer of new knowledge with real-world impacts
CHILD researchers are using your data to investigate and answer important questions.
The answers they are finding are making a real difference.
CHILD is an international research-enabling platform
CHILD’s vast datasets are available to other scientists, to explore an almost unlimited number of questions.
The information you have provided is a treasure trove that will fuel future discoveries for decades to come.
ADVANCING SCIENCE
Your contributions to CHILD have fuelled research that is providing new insights into the early-life origins of health and disease
Many of these insights relate to asthma and allergic disease—the original focus of the Study.
However, the incredible depth and detail of CHILD data is increasingly allowing insights into many other areas of physical and mental health and development.
CHILD research has also helped pioneer or accelerate newer areas of study.
The Key Discoveries section of the CHILD website highlights over 50 scientific advances that have emerged from the Study.
For each discovery, a one-page summary and an infographic are provided.
CHILD research using your data has been published in over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, as of early 2025
This includes articles in some of the most respected, high-impact, leading health science journals, such as Science Translational Medicine and Nature.
Some of these articles have won awards or been singled our by journal editors for their importance (like this and this one).
As well as representing important new knowledge in themselves, these published studies also serve a stepping stones to further discoveries by other researchers.
IMPACTING REAL LIFE
Beyond advancing science, these CHILD findings—based on your data and samples—have already had many real-life impacts
They have:
Beyond advancing science, these CHILD findings—based on your data and samples—have already had many real-life impacts
They have:
Anitha Ithayalingam
Youth Advisory Council Facilitator
A member of CHILD’s National Coordinating Centre (NCC) staff, Anitha is the Program Manager for Knowledge Mobilization & Patient Engagement within CHILD. She is leading acvitities to get parents and youths more involved in the Study.
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