Dr. Brenda Poon leads HELP’s Early Childhood Screening Research and Evaluation initiative. Dr. Poon completed her doctoral work in Special Education at UBC and postdoctoral fellowship with HELP through a joint award from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Dr. Poon is interested in research and evaluation related to early identification and early intervention for children with special needs, family-centered services, integrated child health information systems, as well as social determinants of children’s health and development over the lifecourse.