Healthy Foundations Study of the BC Healthy Connections Project (completed)
October 10, 2025
About
The Healthy Foundations Study is a sub-study of the BC Healthy Connections Project that examined the impact of Nurse-Family Partnership on biological outcomes in women and their infants. The CHPC scientific team led field interviewer hiring, training, participant recruitment and retention, survey and biological data collection with all Healthy Foundations Study families who resided in Fraser- and Vancouver Coastal Health Authorities (2013 to 2019).
Principal Investigator
- Andrea Gonzalez, Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
CHPC Co-Investigators
- Nicole Catherine
- Charlotte Waddell
Research Team
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- Principal Investigators: Gonzalez, A., MacMillan, H., McGowan, P
- Co-Investigators: Atkinson, L., Barr, R.G., Boyle, M., Catherine, N.L.A., Ferro, M., Jack, S.M., Nepomnaschy, P., Sheehan, D., Tonmyr, L., Varcoe, C., Waddell, C.
Funders
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Project Partners
- BC Ministry of Health
- BC Ministry of Children and Family Development
- Fraser Health
- Vancouver Coastal Health
Publications
- History of childhood maltreatment, prenatal cortisol levels, and executive functioning: A cross-sectional study using data from the Healthy Foundations Study
- Healthy Foundations Study: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate biological embedding of early life experiences