About CanChild
Empowering Change: CanChild's Five Pillars of Excellence
CanChild’s foundation is built on the following five core functions:
1
Leadership in Emerging Issues
Take a leadership role in identifying emerging issues in research, practice, policy, and education.
2
Innovative Research
Conduct high-quality, innovative research that gives children and youth increased opportunities to thrive at home, at school, and in the community.
3
Knowledge Transfer and Implementation
Effectively transfer the knowledge generated by our evidence-based research into practice at the clinical and health systems levels.
4
Knowledge Sharing & Education
Educate families and health care providers and share research findings to those who need it the most.
5
Mentorship and Capacity Building
Mentor students, post-doctoral fellows, junior researchers, and experts to build capacity for future researchers around the world.
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Our Research
The overarching goal of CanChild is to maximize the quality of life and participation of children and youth with a variety of developmental conditions, along with their families, through evidence-based clinical and health services research.
CanChild’s research is about how children with a variety of developmental conditions develop, how to identify children and families at risk based on their needs, and how to best support these children over the lifecourse, in particular during health services transition points such as from hospital to home, from preschool to school and from child health services to adult services. At CanChild, our research measures and evaluates the processes of novel ways of health care delivery and its outcomes to ensure children and families do better of the lifecourse (best health, best care experiences, to the best cost).
Strategic Plan 2020-2025
The five-year CanChild Strategic Plan reflects our hopes for the future state of CanChild.
A centre with a shared purpose, where innovative and impactful child health research is at the heart of what we do, and a centre that is recognized internationally for an environment that cultivates diversity and inclusion, collaboration and partnerships.
Our Structure
CanChild has a succinct organizational structure.
The centre is led by a Co-directors who reports to Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences through the Associate Dean of the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University. CanChild is also supported by two groups that advise on strategic matters: the Scientific Advisory Committee and the Advisory Board.
Our Successes & Productivity
CanChild has been pleased to demonstrate the innovation and productivity of the evidence-based clinical and health services research it funds. The following Annual Reports reflect the research activities and successes of CanChild’s research team for the years identified.
The following Annual Reports reflect the research activities and successes of CanChild’s research team for the years identified.
Generating Knowledge & Transforming Lives
At McMaster University’s CanChild Centre for Disability Research, children, youth and their families are at the centre of everything we do.
They are our focus. They are our passion.
Together we have made a difference in childhood development research in Canada and around the world.