Working Groups

Relationships Core

MICYRN recognizes the importance of relationships at all levels – between research team members, with patients and families, with hospitals and health authorities, our partners and funders.  MICYRN is committed to continuously strengthen our multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach.   MICYRN is keen to foster relationships between other existing and emerging perinatal, neonatal, child and youth health research teams, networks, and organizations across the country and beyond. A principal objective of MICYRN is to sustain and augment collaborative research networks and networking activities. MICYRN began by identifying research teams, and is now determining the practices of well-functioning groups.

Outputs

• Inventory of Canadian child-maternal clinical research networks
• Inventory of Canadian birth cohort studies
• Review of pediatric clinical trials in Canada
• Survey of Canadian child-maternal clinical research network investigators and coordinators
• A Network Development Seed Grant competition, Winter 2008, led to funding of 3 groups who held workshops to form, respectively, Canadian Birth Cohorts working group; Pediatric Anesthesia Research Network; and, Canadian Pediatric Obesity Network. See Reports from these meetings
• Network Development support can be provided through MICYRN’s Coordinating Centre, for making teleconference arrangements

Initiatives

• A review is underway to capture “best practices” of successful, well-functioning research networks, with the plan to produce a guidance “toolbox”.
• Basic support to organize tele-and video-conferences is available through MICYRN’s Coordinating Centre to researchers building new national collaborative research networks. Contact Us