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Dr. Jill Houbé, MD, MPhil, FAAP, FRCPSC, is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and Designated Founder of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada subspecialty in Developmental Pediatrics. She is an investigator at the Sunny Hill Research Centre at BC Children's Hospital, with clinical appointments in the Complex Developmental and Behavioural Conditions Clinic, the Provincial Autism Resource Centre, and the Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit.
With formal training in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Dr. Houbé's research examines how upstream system-level factors influence early childhood developmental outcomes. Her work spans both original research and knowledge mobilization, bridging developmental pediatrics with policy analysis. In British Columbia, her knowledge mobilization work has included co-organizing two international Healthy Child BC Forums and co-founding the BC Healthy Child Development Alliance. Her current policy scholarship examines legislative and governance approaches to healthy child development.
- Publications
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Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime
Peter W. Greenwood and Lynn A. Karoly and Susan S. Everingham and Jill Houbé and M. Rebecca Kilburn and C. Peter Rydell and Matthew Sanders and James Chiesa
DOI: 10.4324/9780429501265-5
03/2018Estimating the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions: Nurse home visits and the Perry Preschool
Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime
Greenwood, P.W. and Karoly, L.A. and Everingham, S.S. and Houb{\'e}, J. and Kilburn, M.R. and Rydell, C.P. and Sanders, M. and Chiesa, J.
DOI: 10.4324/9780429501265
2018Period prevalence of epilepsy in children in BC: a population-based study.
Schiariti V and Farrell K and Houbé JS and Lisonkova S
PubMed: 19294886
01/2009Severe retinopathy of prematurity and visual outcomes in British Columbia: a 10-year analysis.
Schiariti V and Matsuba C and Houbé JS and Synnes AR
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.34
PubMed: 18368058
08/2008Perinatal characteristics and parents' perspective of health status of NICU graduates born at term.
Schiariti V and Klassen AF and Houbé JS and Synnes A and Lisonkova S and Lee SK
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.9
PubMed: 18288117
05/2008Healthy child development: Legislative and policy approaches in Westminster democracies
The Canadian Bar Review
Michelle Jenkins and Jill Houbé and Neale Smith and Craig Mitton
04/2008Caregiver-reported health outcomes of preschool children born at 28 to 32 weeks' gestation.
Schiariti V and Houbè JS and Lisonkova S and Klassen AF and Lee SK
DOI: 10.1097/01.dbp.0000257516.52459.33
PubMed: 17353725
02/2007Chorioamnionitis with a fetal inflammatory response is associated with higher neonatal mortality, morbidity, and resource use than chorioamnionitis displaying a maternal inflammatory response only.
Lau J and Magee F and Qiu Z and Houbé J and Von Dadelszen P and Lee SK
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.01.017
PubMed: 16150264
09/2005Abstracts / résumés.
PubMed: 20098489
05/2004A search for guidance: examining prenatal substance exposure protocols.
Zellman GL and Fair C and Houbé J and Wong M
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019734314414
PubMed: 12236668
09/2002Physician response to prenatal substance exposure.
Zellman GL and Bell RM and Archie C and DuPlessis H and Hoube J and Miu A
DOI: 10.1023/a:1021810129171
PubMed: 10728287
03/1999Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
RAND
Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan M. Sohler Everingham, Jill Houbé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, James Chiesa (1998). Investing in our children: What we know and don't know about the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions. Rand Corporation.
1998Do Child Rights Laws Work? Child Well-Being Trajectories in Nordic and Westminster Systems, 2009–2020
Canadian Paediatric Society Annual Conference (CPS 2026)
Jill HoubePerson-Centered Analyses of Early Childhood Screening Data: A Scoping Review
Canadian Paediatric Society Annual Conference (CPS 2026)
Jill Hoube - Research
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Relationships between governance structures, policy frameworks, and child health and developmental outcomes at the population level
Comparative policy analysis across jurisdictions and welfare state regimes, with emphasis on early childhood systems.
Configurational and set-theoretic methods (including fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis) for examining complex causation in health policy research
Person-centered analytic approaches to population-level developmental data
Knowledge translation and implementation science, particularly system-level interventions to reduce inequities in early childhood
Integration of clinical expertise in developmental pediatrics with policy analysis to inform evidence-based system design and service delivery
Honours & AwardsClinician Scientist Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – 1995
National Research Scientist Award, Agency for Health Care Policy Research – 1997
Centre Investigatorship and Establishment Awards, BC Research Institute for Children’s & Women’s Health – 2001
Research holds out hope for improved Rett syndrome treatment
To mark Rett Syndrome Awareness Month, BCCHR contributes to foster understanding about this complex neurological disorder that affects multiple organ systems and can lead to severe impairments that disrupt key aspects of an individual’s life — most of them female patients.
