BC Child and Youth Health Research Network

2005 Health of Population Network Award

The BC Child and Youth Health Research Network provides an infrastructure to lead and harmonize the children and youth health research agenda in BC. Through coordinating and leading emergent research, the aim is to develop an evidence base for programs and policies that promote resilience and positive development for children and youth and ultimately improve their health and well-being.

The BC Child and Youth Health Research Network provides an infrastructure to lead and harmonize the children and youth health research agenda in BC. Through coordinating and leading emergent research, the aim is to develop an evidence base for programs and policies that promote resilience and positive development for children and youth and ultimately improve their health and well-being. The overall focus of research activity for the network is to improve understanding of: development through infancy, childhood, and adolescence; the role that family plays; how chronic conditions, biology, and socioeconomic and environmental factors influence healthy development; and the unique methodologies central to developmental science and child/youth population health research. The network intends to inform and have an impact upon policy, practices and programs at all levels (government, clinical practice and communities) and improve the competitiveness of the child and youth health research community in BC for national and international funding.

The Network aims to build research capacity in British Columbia pertaining to the health of children and youth by building on the successes to date and raising research activity in this area to a new level of excellence and international recognition.

The research goals of the BC Child and Youth Health Research Network are to:

• promote and facilitate research on key transitions in the development of children and youth;
• develop an evidence base and connect this to programs, policy development and practices pertaining to children and youth;
• create a multisectoral, multidisciplinary Network that can develop collaborative and synergistic research; and
• balance health research approaches, recognizing the importance of biologic, social and environmental determinants in the health of children and youth.

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