Leong Centre Rounds
The Leong Centre Rounds lecture series, in partnership with Child Health Evaluative Sciences (CHES) at the SickKids Research Institute, provides a venue to host researchers, community members and policy users to showcase how they are making an impact on child health equity.
When: Last Monday of the month, unless otherwise indicated.
Where: Virtually on Microsoft Teams until further notice.
Host: Eyal Cohen MD, MSc, FRCPC
Program Head, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children
Co-Director, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children
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Archived Sessions
2024
Monday, December 16, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Child and Maternal Well-Being Amid Disruption: Insights from the Child Care Matters Study on Vulnerable Families During the Pandemic "
This presentation focuses on key findings from the Child Health Matters study, and explores the impact of the pandemic on child and maternal mental health and education.
Monday, November 25, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: " Rethinking the Focus on Isolating Risk Factors: A Data-Driven Approach to Multidimensional Social Risk"
This presentation explores how data-driven, multidimensional methods can be used to uncover hidden patters of social determinants in a population.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Pediatrics Grand Rounds with the Leong Centre: "Advancing Child Health Equity in the United States: Lessons from the Pandemic"
This presentation focused on the primary drivers of health inequity in children, the adverse effects of poverty on their health and development, and potential strategies for advancing child health equity.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds and UBC Healthy Aging Research Seminar Series: "Promoting Physical Activity Across the Life Course: A Group-Mediated Precision Medicine Approach"
This virtual seminar is a collaboration between the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children and the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging at The University of British Columbia. This webinar discusses how health behaviours can be supported by a group-mediated approach to precision medicine.
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "ANCHOR: Connecting and Utilizing Data for Equitable Care and Outcomes in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children"
This webinar presents the importance of inclusion and engagement with stakeholders and families in co-designing the Australian National Child Hearing Health Outcomes Registry.
Monday, June 17, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "The Pursuit for Equitable Pediatric Care and Outcomes: Risks of and Opportunities for Inclusive and Anti-Oppressive Research"
This webinar presents strategies for advancing EDI principles across a spectrum of activities and engagement with parents and youth from equity-deserving communities.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds and UBC Healthy Aging Research Seminar Series: "Health in Relationships: Social Prescribing Across the Life Course"
This virtual seminar is a collaboration between the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children and the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging at The University of British Columbia. This webinar presentation discusses the role of social prescribing in the lives of children and older adults.
Monday, May 27, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Advancing Precision Public Health for Equitable Outcomes in Canada"
This webinar presentation discusses practical applications, innovative approaches, and future directions for enhancing public health strategies.
Friday, May 10, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds: "Using Linked Health and Education Data for Research on Outcomes on Children with Chronic Conditions: Lessons from the ECHILD Database in England"
This webinar presents an overview of the ECHILD database and highlights examples of research carried out using ECHILD: the HOPE study, which aims to explore impact of special educational needs provision on health and education outcomes of children with chronic conditions, and multiple descriptive studies exploring outcomes of adolescents as they become young adults.
View the presentation here.
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds: "From Birth to Adolescence: Tackling Child Health Challenges in Hong Kong and Beyond"
In Hong Kong, greater attention and resources are being directed towards the implementation of a life course approach that involves monitoring and intervening from early childhood, or even before birth, in an effort to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Accordingly, in this session, participants hear from a panel of speakers about the importance of interdisciplinary planning in cohort and intervention design to promote holistic biopsychosocial well-being.
Monday, April 22, 2024 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Adversity: From the Lab to the Community"
This webinar presentation discusses how adversity is transmitted across generations with a focus on protective factors that can help break cycles of adversity. Community interventions focused on the parent-child relationship focused on breaking cycles of adversity are presented. Future directions and implications for research, policy, and practice are also discussed.
Monday, March 25, 2024 | Precision Child Health and Leong Centre: "Precisely Speaking: Exploring Equity in Precision Population Health"
To overcome health inequities and better predict who is at risk for poor health outcomes, we must understand how systems, including biological and social determinants of health, influence and impact the lives of children. This session explored the importance of precision approaches in understanding broad social patterns that contribute to both individual and population health.
2023
Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Brain & Mental Health Grand Rounds and Leong Centre: "The Impact of COVID-19 on Child and Youth Mental Health"
Research on the impact of COVID-19 on child and youth mental health suggests a deterioration on most mental health indicators. This webinar presentation discusses discrepancies in the data and highlights best practice recommendations for a post-pandemic recovery in this area of health.
Monday, October 23, 2023 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Supporting Healthy Beginnings"
This webinar presentation reviews the latest research on prenatal opioid exposure in Ontario, its impact on child health, and discusses opportunities for promoting healthy child development in Canada.
Monday, June 12, 2023 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Epigenetics and the Human Life Course"
This webinar presentation highlights the importance and complexity of epigenetics across the human life course; outlines various ways by which the epigenome can inform on human health and disease, and; discusses opportunities for collaborative research in human epigenetics and the new Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging at UBC.
Monday, May 1, 2023 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Pediatric Migrant Health: Challenges and Opportunities"
This webinar presentation provides an overview of the key frameworks in the field of pediatric migrant health; highlights important inequities and challenges when providing care to pediatric migrants, and; discusses various approaches to supporting the delivery of diversity-sensitive care.
Monday, April 17, 2023 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "The PATCHD Project: Co-designing a Multi-Pronged Intervention to Support Families of Children with Developmental Disabilities"
This webinar presentation provides an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on families with developmental disability within Toronto's inner city; highlights the design and impact of the PATCHD project, and; reflects on the use of community-based participatory action research as a method to address child health inequities.
Monday, March 27, 2023 | Leong Centre with Health Equity Rounds: "Sickle Cell Disease: Double Burdens of Morbidity and Racial Disparities"
This webinar presentation provides an overview of the causes of sickle cell disease; explains why it is common amongst Black people; highlights the impact of systemic racism on the experiences of those living with this disease, and; reflects on the new Ontario Health quality standards for the treatment of sickle cell disease.
Monday, February 27, 2023 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Monitoring and Contextualizing Population-Level Early Child Development in Canada, with a Focus on British Columbia"
This webinar presentation provides an overview of the Early Development Instrument at the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University; highlights the characteristics of a neighbourhood level socio-economic index, and; discusses how it has been used.
View the presentation here.
Monday, January 23, 2023 | Leong Centre with Health Equity Rounds: "Food Insecurity in Child Health Care"
This webinar presentation provides an overview of the relationship between food insecurity and child health outcomes; discusses the contribution of food insecurity to child health disparities, and; highlights financial interventions to address food insecurity in child health care.
2022
Monday, November 28, 2022 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "SHARE-ing Insights: Sexual Health And Reproductive Empowerment for Youth, by Youth"
This webinar presentation focuses on 1) how adolescents’ experiences of sexual and reproductive services have been impacted by COVID-19, and 2) what are potential policy and program solutions to address and enhance adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Monday, May 30, 2022 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Results for Every Child in Canada. How UNICEF-Canada Secures Children's Rights and Well-Being"
This webinar presentation focuses on an overview of the work UNICEF Canada does in the country with children and highlights aspects of work that align closely with the Centre and its members around research and data related to child well-being.
Monday, April 25, 2022 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Children's Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Linking Practice and Policy with Evidence"
Monday, April 4, 2022 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Improving Outcomes for Pregnant People and Infants affected by the Opioid Crisis"
This webinar presentations focuses on the opioid crisis in the United States. Dr. Stephen W. Patrick discusses how traditional models of caring for opioid infants are inefficient and expensive, and that better outcomes can be achieved with newer models that keep mother and infant together.
Monday, February 28, 2022 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Children's Pathways through Health Care, Education and Social Care Services in England: The ECHILD Database"
This webinar presentation focuses on discussing the ECHILD Database - a newly developed administrative data resource which includes that links de-identified hospital, education and social care records for all children in England. The session objectives are to discuss the origins and reasons for creating the ECHILD Database, and to outline how the research project team is addressing governance challenges and building public trust.
2021
Thursday, November 11, 2021 | Leong Centre with Health Equity Rounds: "Ethical Considerations in the Collection and Use of Socio-demographic Data in Health Care"
The session objectives were to discuss the SickKids Health Equity Data Collection Initiative, barriers that prevent patient family partners from sharing their data and strategies to increase trust in engagement, and the ethical use and governance of equity data.
Monday, October 25, 2021 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Are Pre-Pandemic Data on Population-Level Patterns of Children's Developmental Health Still Relevant?"
This talk addresses the concept of children’s developmental health at school entry and why it is possible to measure it at the population level; describes the opportunities to widen the inquiry into social determinants of health; considers how the existing research could inform public health policies post-pandemic.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 | Leong Centre with Health Equity Rounds for Orange Shirt Day: "Complex Care in a Colonial World: Health Equity Through Trauma-Informed, Culturally Safe Practice"
Indigenous children frequently present as complex cases for one major reason: because colonialism is not good for Indigenous people. Providing specialized care to people who have experienced colonization means using trauma-informed care and culturally safe care to prevent further harm. On these rounds, we will examine the various forms of trauma that have been researched and defined over the past four decades, the effects of trauma on Indigenous people and what this means for their engagement strategies and coping methods, the effects of trauma on Indigenous family structure and function, how trauma changes a survivor’s relationship with their physical body, and the effects of colonization on personal and collective agency. This session will also provide clinicians and other staff with concrete actions you can take to provide trauma-informed care and support Indigenous approaches to healing and wellness.
Monday, May 31, 2021 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "School-Based Health Care: The Model Schools Pediatric Health"
Thursday, May 6, 2021 | Psychiatry Grand Rounds with the Leong Centre: "What Have We Learned about Child Mental Health During the Pandemic?"
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 | Pediatric Grand Rounds with the Leong Centre: "Reimagining our Communities: Co-Creating Healthier Futures in Partnership"
Monday, April 19, 2021 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Buffering Poverty-Related Risks for Children with Chronic Health Conditions: Is it all on the parents?"
Monday, March 8, 2021 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Doing Research in Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Monday, February 1, 2021 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Understanding Son Preference, A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Project
2020
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | Paediatric Grand Rounds with the Leong Centre: "Evaluation the Canadian Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit"
Monday, October 19, 2020 | Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: "Leveraging an Equity-Lens to Characterize the Risks for COVID-19 Acquisition and Transmission and Optimal Intervention Strategies"