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.
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 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.
CHILD as a producer of new knowledge with real-world impacts
ADVANCING SCIENCE
CHILD as a producer of new knowledge with real-world impacts
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.
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.
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 out by journal editors for their importance (like this, this , 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.
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 out by journal editors for their importance (like this, this , 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
IMPACTING REAL LIFE
Beyond advancing science, CHILD findings—based on your data and samples—have had many real-world impacts
They have:
Tools and guidelines for healthcare and research
Information for parents
Headlines for public awareness
CULTIVATING CAREERS
Thanks to your participation, CHILD has become a training ground and launch pad for junior researchers
Study data provide opportunities for innovative research, helping young scientists build their careers
CHILD has truly been a springboard for my career. I’m so grateful to the families in CHILD for all they’ve given to enable research like mine.
Dr. Meghan Azad began working with CHILD data as a post-doctoral fellow. She has since become a world-leading breastmilk researcher. She continues to conduct ground-breaking research using CHILD data.
Working with CHILD data won me a national science prize and entrance scholarships to three top Canadian universities—as a Grade 11 student!
For a Gr. 10 science project, Laura Wang reached out to CHILD. She ended up with two awards, a peer-reviewed publication, scholarship offers and a headstart to a research career. Read her story here.
With its incredible data and the amazing people involved, CHILD offers early-career researchers like me a rare opportunity to drive meaningful change in childhood health.
Dr. Charisse Petersen began working with CHILD data as a post-doctoral student. She has since co-led major CHILD research on the microbiome and is now Deputy Director of CHILD.
Working with CHILD data fostered my interest in preventing disease and studying health at a population level.
Dr. Maxwell Tran was an undergraduate student when he co-authored an “editor’s choice” CHILD paper on the “atopic march” of allergic disease. He is now a Public Health & Preventive Medicine Resident Physician at the University of Toronto.
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Dr. Kozeta Miliku began working with CHILD as a post-doctoral fellow. She now runs her own lab at the University of Toronto, is the Study’s Cinical Science Officer and leads its cardio-metabolic program.
POWERING RESEARCH
POWERING RESEARCH
Your data is supporting health research internationally, through CHILD’s secure online data platform
CHILD’s collection of data and samples, which gets richer with each Study round, is raw material for almost unlimited study.
Secure CHILD data—from which all detail that could link your information to you has been removed—is available to approved researchers worldwide through CHILDdb, the Study’s online database.
International interest in CHILDdb is growing
The first scientists to use your de-identified data for research are those directly involved in running CHILD. After them, other researchers can apply to use your data though CHILDdb.
Only approved researchers who meet strict ethical and security standards can access the data, and they must follow clear guidelines on its use.
Xxxx data requests have already been received from researchers at xxxx universities in xxxx countries as of early 2025.
Sharing Study data in this controlled, selective way will greatly amplify the impact of your participation in CHILD
CHILD researchers number a few dozen and have done amazing things with your data.
Imagine what thousands of equally committed and qualified researchers can do, asking different questions and using different approaches.
CHILDdb guarantees that your contributions to CHILD will continue giving, generating new knowledge and improving the health of new generations of children, for many years into the future.
Your data is supporting health research internationally, through CHILD’s secure online data platform
CHILD’s collection of data and samples, which gets richer with each Study round, is raw material for almost unlimited study.
Secure CHILD data—from which all detail that could link your information to you has been removed—is available to approved researchers worldwide through CHILDdb, the Study’s online database.
International interest in CHILDdb is growing
The first scientists to use your de-identified data for research are those directly involved in running CHILD. After them, other researchers can apply to use your data though CHILDdb.
Only approved researchers who meet strict ethical and security standards can access the data, and they must follow clear guidelines on its use.
Xxxx data requests have already been received from researchers at xxxx universities in xxxx countries as of early 2025.
Sharing Study data in this controlled, selective way will greatly amplify the impact of your participation in CHILD
CHILD researchers number a few dozen and have done amazing things with your data.
Imagine what thousands of equally committed and qualified researchers can do, asking different questions and using different approaches.
CHILDdb guarantees that your contributions to CHILD will continue giving, generating new knowledge and improving the health of new generations of children, for many years into the future.
