One Child Every Child: A Transformational Child Health Research Initiative
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One Child Every Child is a Canada-first research, scholarship, and knowledge mobilization initiative with a vision of transforming the lives of children and families so that all children living in Canada will be the healthiest, most empowered and thriving in the world. To achieve our vision, we must first, reverse Canada’s downward trend in child health outcomes; and then continue to make progress for Canada’s return to a Top 10 position in the UNICEF ranking.
The One Child Every Child initiative will generate and mobilize knowledge with pathways to impact to improve the lives of all children. The Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) investment will catalyze transformational, transdisciplinary research so that innovations can be scaled and spread to benefit children across Canada and beyond. We will accelerate national priorities in health, innovative and resilient communities, and a technologically advanced Canada. This initiative will have a lasting legacy. We will build the foundation for global excellence and leadership in research to enable every child and community to thrive.
Objective: to create knowledge and deploy, apply, and test solutions that will significantly improve child health and wellness trajectories in Canada and worldwide. This effort integrates four priorities that cut across three research themes that are, in turn, catalyzed by three accelerators.
Four key priorities form the basis for the One Child Every Child value proposition.
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Will develop a CHW-focused EDI plan that includes analyses of systemic barriers for equity-deserving groups and systemic biases in research, health care provision and technologies.
- Indigenous research: Partnered with local and national Indigenous researchers, communities and organizations, we focus on Indigenous health, emphasize self-determination and incorporate lived experiences on research co-design and knowledge mobilization.
- Knowledge Mobilization: All research programs will incorporate knowledge mobilization and translation plans and foster commercialization as appropriate.
- Impact and value: An evaluation framework and measurement tools will be co-developed with UNICEF, Alberta Innovates and families to assess the outcomes of all research projects beyond the traditional metrics. This includes a) building capacity, b) informing decision‐making related to health, wealth and well-being, c) health impacts, determinants of health and health system changes, d) broad socioeconomic impacts. We use a value-assessment framework to capture impact on CHW outcomes and broader measures of societal good. Indicators within these broad categories can be applied, monitored, and updated to track short- and long-term impacts across all pillars of health.
These four priorities drive the OCEC's three themes:
- Better beginnings
- Precision Health and Wellness
- From Vulnerable to Thriving
Children’s Healthcare Canada and OCEC are aligned through:
- Shared visions for healthy, vibrant children and youth (regardless of diagnosis, ability, income, racial or gender diversity);
- Shared values of collaboration, inclusivity, excellence and courage.
- Commitment to accelerate the implementation of best available evidence and expertise to inform policy and practice in children’s health.
- Family/caregiver partnership is essential to effect meaningful change in children’s health/healthcare/health systems.
- Healthcare transformation must be grounded in evidence-informed policy and must engage decision-makers at all levels of government;
- Cross-sector collaborations (civil society organizations, and governments) are essential to successful transformation efforts in children’s health.
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