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Simple Stats and Sad Stories - Dr. Clyde Hertzman (HELP)

Dr. Clyde Hertzman presented a free public talk, "Simple stats & sad stories: Early child survival and development in Canada," on Feb. 10 at the Michael Smith Laboratories at UBC. The School of Population and Public Health presented this talk as a special grand rounds presentation. Dr. Hertzman received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's 2010 Health Researcher of the Year award. He is a Professor at SPPH; Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, College for Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC; and Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development. Description of Dr. Hertzman's talk: Nearly 30% of BC children start school vulnerable, (that is, behind where we would like them to be) in their physical, social, emotional, or language/cognitive development. Vulnerability then goes on to adversely influence school success and life chances. At least 2/3 of this vulnerability is 'avoidable', in the sense that improved early childhood experiences would have prevented it. Over the last decade, monitoring has not shown any sustained progress in reducing vulnerability by the time children reach school age, despite the fact that early child development has been on the public agenda. A close look at Canadian data shows that, similarly, there has been no progress in reducing infant mortality since the mid-1990's, too. In other words, Canada is not making progress in EITHER child survival or development. This presentation will explore the reasons for these disappointing trends.