Dr. Katherine Cost Receives CIHR Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Cost who has recently been awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)’s 2023 Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts Operating Grant competition. This opportunity aimed to support projects that use data from existing Canadian “cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms” and could produce meaningful evidence regarding human development and child and/or youth health.

Katherine Cost is a Research Associate on the AYM team. This grant—contributed to by the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health—will support her project “Temporal Trends in the Distribution of Child and Youth Mental Ill-Health from 1983 to 2023: Evidence from 4 General Population Based Samples in Ontario,” co-led by Dr. Kathy Georgiades and in collaboration with Drs. Claire Chen, Nicole Dryburgh, Jordan Edwards, Emma Nolan, and Peter Szatmari, and Meira Goldberg.

This study aims to provide clear information on how the levels of mental health problems in young people have changed (increased, decreased, no change) compared to 10 years ago, 25 years ago, and 40 years ago. It also aims to identify if there are patterns within specific population groups to pay attention to, and how people with the most mental health problems have changed over time.

More information on the project can be found here: CIHR – Detailed Information.