SPPA Professor Ian Stedman and a team of researchers at the University of Toronto and SickKids Hospital were recently awarded a 4-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant for $634,952.00. The Project Equitable Child Health: Enabling broad ethical inquiry in pediatric care by understanding the parameters of social license for reuse of clinical data will determine the context under which research using children’s data is acceptable to the public, and how people’s opinions vary according to their identity.

The interdisciplinary team consists of Dr. Alistair Johnson (University of Toronto, Scientist, Child Health Evaluation Science at SickKids and Infrastructure Co-Lead at the University of Toronto Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine) and Dr. Melissa McCradden (University of Toronto, Bioethicist at SickKids) and Dr. Mjaye Mazwi  (University of Toronto, Critical Care Physician, Co-Lead Artificial Intelligence in Medicine for Kids at SickKids).

Congratulations to Professor Stedman and the entire research team on this award!