CHILD-BRIGHT’s Training & Capacity Building Program team, co-led by Dan Goldowitz and Celia Laur, is responsible for establishing the training and mentoring agenda of the network. Engaging with multiple groups, including partners with lived and living experience (PWLEs), researchers, and policymakers, we aim to foster a culture of patient-oriented research that will not only positively affect the future of health research within Canada, but also lead to improved outcomes for children with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families.
In Phase 2 of our network, the Training & Capacity Building (T&CB) Program continues to develop capacity in patient-oriented research, while offering new training opportunities on topics related to understanding and applying implementation science (IS) and knowledge mobilization (KM) methods and equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization and Indigenization (EDI-DI) principles.
Meet our program co-leads
Daniel Goldowitz
CHILD-BRIGHT Scientific Co-Director and Training & Capacity Building Program Co-Lead
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR)
University of British Columbia
Celia Laur
CHILD-BRIGHT Training & Capacity Building Program Co-Lead
Scientific Lead, Office of Spread and Scale
Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV)
Assistant Professor (Status), Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation; University of Toronto
Now available!
Self-directed training certificate
Patient-Oriented Research Curriculum in Child Health
Simulation-based training on partnerships in research
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AZRIELI CHILD-BRIGHT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
With generous financial support provided by the Azrieli Foundation, the Azrieli CHILD-BRIGHT Fellowship Program has quickly become a cornerstone of our capacity-building initiatives. Supported postdoctoral fellows play a pivotal role in advancing our implementation science research efforts.
Meet our current postdoctoral fellows:
Training Innovation Fund
The Training Innovation Fund provides a maximum of $10,000 in funds to facilitate innovative training initiatives that will complement ongoing patient-oriented research activities that focus on childhood brain-based developmental disabilities.
Meet previous winners:
Graduate Student Fellowship in Patient-Oriented Research
The fellowship is designed to enhance the training experience of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged in patient-oriented research relating to brain-based developmental disabilities in children. It also aims to increase the engagement pf partners with lived and living experience (PWLEs) throughout the process by enriching current POR practices or augmenting the research project.
Meet previous winners:
Watch our recorded training sessions
CHILD-BRIGHT Virtual Symposium
Patient-Oriented research Discussions (PODs)
These four sessions explore content related to PWLE engagement in research, including interesting projects, resources, pieces of media, podcasts, webinars, research articles, or any other materials related to patient-oriented research.
2022 Learning Series
Learn about using social media in POR and applying a trauma-infomred practice lens to medical research.
2021 Learning Series
Learn about diversity, accessibility, and accommodation considerations in POR with youth
2019 Learning Series
Learn about supporting First Nation-centred research, reciprocity in PWLE engagement, and enhancing participation in research.
2018 Summer Learning Series
Learn about PWLE engagement in action, how to incorporate PWLE engagement into a research project, and public participation in research.