National Day for Truth and Recognition
Monday, September 30, 2024
The DOHaD Canada Society stands in strong support of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and remains committed to honouring the path of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples across Canada.
As an organization dedicated to improving health outcomes across generations, we recognize the profound and ongoing impacts of colonial injustices, including the intergenerational trauma of residential schools and systemic inequalities that Indigenous Peoples continue to face. We are committed to learning and take action to eliminate these injustices and cultivating meaningful relationships with Indigenous Peoples, based on respect, understanding, and collaboration to help promote health and well-being for the future generations.
On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we encourage our entire community to take time to reflect on the truths shared by survivors, their families, and communities, and to engage in conversations about reconciliation. This is a time for listening, engaging in meaningful dialogue and reaffirming our shared responsibility to build a more just and equitable future for all, with particular attention to the rights, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples.
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Award Winners of the 2024 Scientific Meeting of the Canadian DOHaD Society!
The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health generously funded two trainee awards to recognize the best integration of sex as a biological variable and/or gender as a social determinant of health into research.
The winner of the oral presentation award award is
Jess Hercus (Simon Fraser University; Supervisor: Julian Christians) for a talk entitled:
“Do effects of prenatal nutrition on cardiovascular and metabolic health depend on gonadal sex and/ or chromosomal sex?”
The winner of the poster presentation award is
Elisabeth Balin Xie (University of Calgary; Supervisor: Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen) for a poster entitled:
“Pandemic objective hardship during pregnancy and child social-emotional outcomes at 2 years of age: A secondary analysis of the Pregnancy During the Pandemic Cohort”
The 13th DOHaD International World Congress
Join us in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September 2025!
The 13th DOHaD World Congress is scheduled for 7th to 10th September 2025 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Stay tuned for the launch of the new website, where you will find detailed information about the event and its offerings. Follow us on X (@DOHaD2025) to stay up to date.
Women Researchers in the DOHaD Field
Click here to see profiles, publications, and news article featuring women researchers in the DOHaD field!
Join DOHaD Canada
The Canadian DOHaD Society is a globally connected network focused on creating, communicating and translating the latest knowledge on early development to improve the health and well-being of Canadians today and into the future and promote the importance of maternal health and well-being on a global platform.
DOHaD Canada was proud to support two trainees: Derrick SSewanyana (U of T) and Claudia Holody (U of Alberta) on their abstract submitted to DOHaD 2022 in Vancouver
The abstracts were selected for DOHaD Canada Travel Awards based on reviewer scores.
Timothy Regnault, Claudia Holody, Steve Matthews, Derrick SSewanyana, Maria B. Ospina
Through our partnership with Empowering Next-generation Researchers In Perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH – https://enrichyourscience.ca), we wish to let you know about an exciting opportunity being offered by ENRICH. ENRICH has a number of salary awards available for Black or Indigenous Doctoral or Masters (thesis based) students, conducting research in perinatal and child health & well-being.
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Strategic Priorities
Our Society engages in social, biological, clinical and economic research focusing on:
1. How environmental factors during the early life (preconception-childhood) interact with development to place individuals on trajectories that impact life-long health, learning and social function.
2. Development of strategies that prevent or reverse negative life-course outcomes, promoting health and wellness and allowing all Canadians to attain their full potential.
Research
Engage in world class, discovery-based research
Our national network includes national and internationally recognized researchers from clinical practice, academia, industry, and government sectors many of whom are already engaged in extensive international collaborations and partnerships.
Training
Delivering high quality, transdisciplinary training and career development
Recognizing that trainees are our future, our network is committed to creating the best transdisciplinary training environment promoting academic excellence and supporting tomorrow’s research leaders and policy makers.
Translation
Promote health and wellness for all Canadians
Knowledge exchange and engagement with government, policy makers and the public is at the core of our mission. Through partnership with these stakeholders, we will raise the profile of DOHaD research; develop, test and implement interventions based on research discovery; and act as a catalyst for promotion of health, learning and social function with a focus on Canada’s most vulnerable populations.