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Leveraging the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging research platform to mobilize COVID-19 research Impact Story of the Year The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionally affected older people. Hospitalizations and COVID-related deaths were higher among adults over 65 years of age than…

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) webinar series The CLSA Webinar Series features online lectures from new, mid-career, and established health researchers who study aging. The hour long webinars, which run from September to June, provide a forum to discuss the…

Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories (I-HeLTI) Development Workshop On June 11 – 12, 2018 a Development Workshop for the Indigenous Component of Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) will take place in Ottawa, Ontario. This workshop will have limited space. Thus, for…

Announcement of the recipient of the I-HeLTI Cohort The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC), in partnership with First Nations Health Authority, university-based researchers from Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and the University of Alberta, as well as…

Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI): Strengthening Workshop December 12 to 16, 2016 Geneva Switzerland A collaboration between Canada, China, India, South Africa and the WHO The Strengthening Workshop assisted teams who had been successful at the Letter of Intent stage…

FAQ from webinar: Team Grant: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) – Canada Design preconception Is it essential that recruitment for the cohort be entirely pre-conception? Could a proportion of participants be recruited during pregnancy? As specified in the FO, in the…

ReACH: Advancing maternal and child health research in Canada through cohort cataloguing A research platform funded under CIHR's Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) is providing a valuable resource for researchers looking at the Developmental Origins of Health and…

The Path to a Safer Tomorrow: Replacing Everyday Chemicals with Safer Alternatives Dr. Barbara Hales is leading a team of researchers, primarily from McGill University, who are evaluating the health impact of chemicals that leach out from cosmetics, plastics, electronics and foam…

Creating healthy cities by design Dr. Yan Kestens – a Professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Public Health, a researcher with the university’s research centre (CRCHUM), and the CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Urban Interventions and Population Health – is leading…

A SHARED Future Lighting new pathways and restoring age-old understandings of energy by putting reconciliation at the heart of decision making and implementation Dr. Heather Castleden Photo courtesy of J. Aarssen The ‘A SHARED Future’ team is lighting new pathways and restoring…