CHILD Cohort Study

The YouTube channel of the CHILD Cohort Study, a robust Canadian research platform to understand the development of disease so it can be predicted, prevented or better treated.

Launched in 2008, the study recruited over 3,500 pregnant women in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Toronto, and is following their children from before birth to adolesence and beyond. The study is capturing information on these children, their parents and environments from biological samples, questionnaires, home assessments and clinical assessments.

CHILD is designed to be one of the most informative studies of its kind in the world. CHILD findings are influencing medical practice, parenting choices, consumer product regulation and policy development.

This was previously the channel of the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network (AllerGen), a federally funded NCE from 2004 to 2019, out of which CHILD was born.