Theme 2: Precision Health and Wellness
To improve diagnosis and treatment for children with chronic and medically complex illnesses.
Goals
- Reduce the burden of medical complexity through precision health-informed biomedical and social approaches to genetic and chronic disease
- Deliver risk reduction strategies to address co-morbidities to achieve optimal trajectories
Walking Together on Parallel Paths
As part of One Child Every Child, we have committed to walking Parallels Paths focused of the well-being of all children.
Our Indigenous led research is done on the oral path and follows oral traditions. Our written path research programs are led by non-Indigenous researchers who follow written systems processes. Some researchers conduct projects that follow both oral and written traditions.
OCEC is exploring where these paths can cross to improve outcomes for all children.
Oral Path
Written Path
Collaboration with Dr. Pamela Roach
Identifying gaps in the way research impact is measured for Indigenous community-based research
A scoping review will identify potentially relevant tools to measure impact and qualitative interviews will be completed with researchers and community partners who have used the tools to determine gaps and areas for improvement
Collaboration with Dr. Pamela Roach
The objectives of this project are to develop, deliver and evaluate an adapted Indigenous health education program for faculty and health systems preceptors in multiple health and health related faculties to enhance systemic levels outcomes for Indigenous children
Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson
This precision medicine project seeks to understand why the same genetic diseases changes can sometimes lead to a range of different outcomes in each individual. Understanding the underlying mechanisms can help improve treatments for genetic diseases. An application for this could be deciding if a treatment with side effects is necessary based on the disease severity.
Dr. Steven Bryant
Children, particularly those in disadvantaged communities, are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. There is an urgent need for comprehensive research to understand how climate change affects children’s health in Canada. This research will allow researchers, policy makers and communities in Canada and globally to better understand the truly unjust health burden of climate change on this and future generations of children.