Upcoming Webinars

This will be the last webinar of the Life Course Research Network (LCRN) Measurement Webinar Series, “Measuring Health Development of Children and Youth”. The series has featured experts in the US, Canada, and Australia, exploring strategies for developing measurement systems to monitor and improve children’s health development trajectories. The early series sessions focused on the use of the Early Development Instrument (EDI), which measures healthy development and wellbeing of 5 year olds, and the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI), which measures healthy development and wellbeing of 9 and 11 year olds. This webinar is also a follow up to our last session with Brenda Poon, Joanne Schroeder, and Efren Aguilar …

Featuring Brenda Poon, PhD (Assistant Professor, Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia), Joanne Schroeder (Senior Policy Fellow, Human Early Learning Partnership), and Efren Aguilar (GIS Unit Chief, Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities) this webinar will illustrate how to take a community-based systems approach to measurement.   This webinar will provide an overview of an approach being trialed in British Columbia to build compassionate leadership within the child serving systems. The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) has been collecting population level data on young children for over 15 years and working with communities to create change. The Compassionate Systems leadership approach recognizes that enduring change requires a …

Featuring Kimberlyn McGrail, PhD (Scientific Director, Population Data BC) and Anne Gadermann, PhD (Assistant Professor, Human Early Learning Partnership, School of Population and Public Health), this webinar will demonstrate how to build capacity for data linkage.   Perhaps the most important data frontier entails linking of administrative population and clinical data systems to create new ways of understanding whole person health development over time. This will look at groundbreaking work in British Columbia to create a unique life course data system.   Population Data BC (PopData) is a multi-university, data and education resource facilitating interdisciplinary research on the determinants of human health, well-being and development. PopData supports research access to …

Introduction The obesity rate in preschool children in the United States (US) is 13.9%, while even higher rates are associated with racial and ethnic minorities and children from low-income families. These prevalence patterns underscore the need to identify effective childhood obesity prevention programs.     Method A scoping review was conducted following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework to provide an overview of the types, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of obesity prevention interventions and policies in children up to 6 years old. Inclusion criteria were studies at least 6- months duration; included a weight-based outcome, conducted in the US, English publications from January 2001 to February 2018. Exclusions: studies in  overweight/obese children and …

Featuring Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl, PhD (Professor, Faculty of Education,and Director, Human Early Learning Partnership, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia), this webinar will provide background on the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) and its utility.   The MDI is a self-report questionnaire that asks children in middle childhood about their thoughts, feelings and experiences. The MDI is one of the first survey of its kind to gather information about the lives of children both in school, in the home and in the community, from their own perspective. The survey uses a strengths-based approach to assess five dimensions of child development that are strongly linked to social and emotional well-being, health, …

Featuring Sharon Goldfeld, FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD (Deputy Director, Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne). This webinar will explore how the EDI is being utilized in Australia. The EDI has been collected on all children starting school every three years across Australia since 2009 (1 million children). It has been linked to other data to provide rich and granular data for research, analysis, and public policy purposes.   For more background information, please see the Australian Early Development Census website: www.aedc.gov.au   Sharon Goldfeld, FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD (Deputy Director, Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne)   Webinar recording available here   Slides available …