Strategic Initiatives

Established expertise. Promising science. Tremendous potential.

The goal of our strategic initiatives is to create innovative solutions to some of the biggest health challenges facing children in BC and beyond. Each initiative brings together emerging areas of research, innovative projects and world-class investigators to transform care and advance child health. They are unique opportunities to establish BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute as a national and international leader in these fields.

Originally identified during the development of our Research Themes and 2016-2021 Strategic Plan, these initiatives span our research structure, basic research, clinical care and community health. They’re new areas of investment for the Research Institute and will be supported with new facilities, new expertise and novel partnerships.

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Digital Health Research

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Precision Health Initiative @BCCHR

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Healthy at Home

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Research Roundup: January 2022

This month’s Research Roundup covers how increasing parent-child proximity in the first days of life can improve toddler behaviour later on, what lean body mass can tell us about the health of pediatric kidney transplant recipients, insights into the barriers to knowledge translation in Canadian pediatric health-care centres, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of saline gargle COVID-19 tests.

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New COVID-19 treatment study shows remdesivir reduces need for ventilation

In the largest single country trial of the potential COVID-19 treatment remdesivir to date, researchers have found the drug reduced the need for mechanical ventilation in hospitalized patients, when compared with standard of care.

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Children and the COVID-19 Omicron variant

Omicron has overtaken Delta as the most common variant in B.C. in recent weeks so what does that mean for children? The BC Children’s Hospital experts examine the most recent mutation and the effect it’s having on children in our province, so far.

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BCCHR researchers awarded CIHR funding to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic impacts on children, youth and families

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant: Understanding and mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and families in Canada.

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Research Roundup: December 20, 2021

This month’s Research Roundup covers a newly defined type of anxiety in parents of children with allergies, the best method for measuring serum creatinine in kids hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis, and the development of a new provincial pediatric diabetes registry.

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