NICHD-IHDCYH 2009 Summer Institutes

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)Department of Health & Human Services - USANational Institutes of Health

CIHR-IHDCYH and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health organized their 5th Annual Summer Institutes in Maternal-Fetal Pharmacology (SI - Pharmacology) and in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology (SI - Epidemiology) in Val-David, Quebec, in July 2009.

Participant List for the 2009 SI-Pharmacology and the 2009 SI-Epidemiology
Course curriclum for the 2009 SI-Pharmacology and the 2009 SI-Epidemiology

Summer Institute Overview and Objectives

SI - Pharmacology
(July 12 - 18, 2009)		 SI - Epidemiology
(July 12 - 18, 2009)
The course provides training for clinical and non-clinical scientists who are considering academic careers in studying therapeutics during pregnancy, the perinatal period, and lactation. The course provides substantive and methodologic training in human fecundity and fertility, pregnancy and perinatal outcomes, maternal health, fetal growth and development, developmental disabilities, and promising new approaches for studying these outcomes.
The main objective of the Institute is to foster the development of a critical mass of researchers and clinicians in this neglected area. The objectives of this Institute are: 1)To further prepare students and fellows for careers in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology and 2) To foster future collaborations amongst participants and with the faculty beyond the time frame of the Summer Institute.

Past Summer Institutes

Summer 2008

Summer 2007

Summer 2006

  • Second Summer Institute in Maternal-Fetal Pharmacology (Denver (CO), July 23 - 29, 2006)
  • Second Summer Institute in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology (Cambridge (MD), July 30 - August 5, 2006)

Summer 2005

  • First Summer Institute in Maternal-Fetal Pharmacology (Mont-Tremblant (QC), July 24 - 30, 2005)
  • First Summer Institute in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology (Wood Holes (MA), July 10 - 16, 2005)