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Brain, Behaviour & Development

We bring together neuroscience, mental health and child development researchers through basic, clinical, population and public health research. We care for children with complex medical, physical, developmental and mental health needs, and lead national initiatives such as Networks of Centres of Excellence.

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Childhood Diseases

Childhood Diseases includes Groups that are focused on studying childhood diseases and disorders. There is a specific focus on understanding mechanisms of health versus disease, as well as identifying and testing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

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Evidence to Innovation

We are health care innovators. Our team of clinicians and scientists are developing new health care technologies, improving patient care, advancing the safe and effective use of drugs, developing new methods of health data analytics, and shifting health system attitudes and behaviours to improve the health care and well-being of children and families. Together with the patients we serve, we are leading initiatives to inform health care policy and practice.

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Healthy Starts

Our overarching goal is to keep children and families healthy and out of the hospital by preventing lifelong health challenges and chronic diseases that are rooted in early childhood. We are passionate about furthering research into how a child’s family life and environment impacts their health, shedding light on healthy childhood development before and after birth, and improving child health worldwide through innovation, advocacy, education and capacity building.

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Early life proximity to trees and other green spaces is linked to improved childhood development

New research shows a link between early exposure to green spaces and improved childhood development.

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Integrating care with the new chief of pediatrics, Dr. Steven Miller

Dr. Steven Miller will continue to collaborate on studies of the developing brain while he serves as chief of pediatrics at BC Children's.

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Culturally safe research of preterm births

In the lead up to National Indigenous Peoples Day, a Cowichan Elder who's a cultural supervisor on a preterm births study said researchers need to involve the community from the start and avoid "swooping in."

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Peanut allergy treatment even safer when started within infants’ first year

New evidence from BC Children’s Hospital and University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers shows babies can safely be treated for peanut allergies.

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Study finds immunity waned against RSV in infants and women of childbearing age during pandemic

A new study published in The Journal of Infectious Disease examined how the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed women’s and children’s immunity to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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