IHDCYH Initiatives

Implementation Science Chairs
This initiative will use a Chair model to advance Implementation Science within the field of human development, child, and youth with the ultimate goal of promoting health and health equity.

Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)
HeLTI is focused on shaping international policy around intervention during the earliest stages of life for the improvement of health and the prevention of later life non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory diseases and mental health.

Mental Health in the Early Years (MHITEY)
The mental health in the early years initiative will enhance our understanding of factors affecting early brain development and mental health outcomes, and strengthen knowledge mobilization, dissemination and exchange in the implementation of evidence-based early years mental health interventions.

This initiative will bring research to inform meaningful change to policy that impacts youth health and well-being. This multi-phase initiative will catalyze research activities, support networking and collaboration, and build youth engagement in research.

This funding opportunity aimed to improve understanding of, response to, and recovery from the impacts of the pandemic on children, youth, and families in Canada.

The goal of this funding opportunity is to build research capacity, generate new knowledge, and support knowledge mobilization in human development, child and youth health by funding operating grants to early career researchers.

This opportunity funds research that uses data from existing Canadian cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms relevant to reproductive, maternal, child and/or youth health. The objective is to highlight and encourage use for research of previously funded cohorts, administrative and survey data to inform improved patient, population and system outcomes.

The IHDCYH Talks video competition is intended to improve knowledge translation within IHDCYH's mandate. Applicants submit a short video that presents a clear evidence-based message to a lay audience that is designed to have an impact on the health of children, youth and families.