Primary research areas and interests

• Children’s wellbeing and developmental health
• Social determinants of development, well-being, and health outcomes of children and youth
• Measuring developmental outcomes and social context factors during childhood and adolescence
• Validity theory and implications for longitudinally measuring and analyzing child health and education outcomes
• Population-level perspectives and neighbourhood effects in child development research
• Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development

Research Projects and Collaborations

• Early Development Instrument (EDI)
• Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI)
• Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW)
• Holistic Student Assessment: Resiliency during Childhood and Adolescence (HSA)
• Reliable Change Index for aggregated neighborhood-level child development outcomes

Collaborators and Research Partnerships

• Magdalena Janus, Offord Centre, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada (EDI)
• Sally Brinkman, Telethon Kids Institute, Adelaide, Australia (Australian EDI)
• Tina Malti, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (SEDI)
• Gil Noam, Harvard Medical School (PEAR)
• Bruno Zumbo, University of British Columbia (MERM)