One Child Every Child
Themes and Accelerators
Theme 1: Better Beginnings
To investigate the health and wellbeing of mothers and children, giving babies and pre-schoolers the best start in life.
Goals:
- Understanding risk factors for preterm birth and pregnancy complications, and improving outcomes following these events.
- Invest in discovery science as it relates to understanding key mechanisms related to fetal growth, development, and parturition.
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
Theme 3: Vulnerable to Thriving
To improve the trajectories of vulnerable children through social and structural systems, policies and programs that allow children to thrive.
Goals:
- Better monitoring of child and youth health and well-being
- Greater upstream wholistic health and well-being promotion and prevention
Accelerators
One Child Every Child has six cross-cutting accelerators that are powerful enablers of our research and scholarship to address Grand Challenges.
Ensure that work on Indigenous child health relies on relationships with community, intergenerational engagement, Indigenous knowledge and practices, and works towards decolonization to produce transformative impact for Indigenous communities.
Take a committed approach to dismantle and disrupt inequities through equitable research practices and inclusive governance.
The Transdisciplinary Training Accelerator supports scholars from graduate students to postdoctoral fellows to clinic scientist with three pillars.
Education Excellence: Delivering high-quality comprehensive training that combines methodological rigor with practical skills
Real World Impact: Putting trainee learning into practice through hands-on experiences in cross sectoral internships, community collaborations and front-line work on child health challenges.
Recognition and Support: Competitive and prestigious awards, dedicated mentorship and comprehensive project support.
Integrate and harness multipronged data sources using cutting-edge data science, develop equitable and inclusive data standards and support the build of a comprehensive data infrastructure.
The Technology Accelerator will primarily focus on establishing a comprehensive framework to accelerate effective technology use, development and deployment within child health through 3 primary areas of focus:
- Novel Technology Development - Develop the next generation of technologies specifically designed for child health through increased interactions across disciplines.
- Technology and Industry Interactions - Direct support to identify and prioritize unmet clinical needs being highlighted by the themes and programs and the potential of existing technologies to address these needs.
- Technology Translation - Create an expedited workflow for technology translation including entrepreneurial activities, and partnerships with industry, ensuring that newly developed/adapted technologies are efficiently and effectively translated into use, resulting in maximum impact on child health.
Develop and implement a national framework for child health and wellness, integrating effective knowledge mobilization strategies to optimize impact and value for children, families and communities.
- Create a Value, Impact, and Knowledge Mobilization Framework specific to child health and wellness
- Build capacity within OCEC to embed and align Value, Impact and KM into OCEC activities
- Assess Economic Impact of One Child, Every Child Research initiatives
- Identify evidence-based leading practices in Value, Impact and KM
- Provide oversight to CFREF reporting, including Performance Measurement Plan, annual progress, midterm, and final reports.
Walking Parallel Paths
One Child Every Child is guided by ii’ taa’poh’to’p, the UCalgary Indigenous Strategy, and walks parallel paths with Indigenous Elders and scholars to encompass the wisdom, voices and priorities of Indigenous peoples for the betterment of all.
One Child Every Child brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, child health research institutes, education and healthcare providers, equity-deserving groups, local, national and global interest-holders to accelerate outcomes for children and their families.
The One Child Every Child Parallel Paths supports ongoing and new Indigenous scholars' research projects.
