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Child Health

June 10, 2022 U of T’s Peter Donnelly has long pushed for legal protections for child athletes: Wall Street Journal

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December 10, 2021 How effective are school food programs? U of T researchers launch nationwide study

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October 23, 2019 U of T’s Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition names new chair in patient engagement

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March 8, 2019 Leong Centre for Healthy Children will help improve child health through new precision prevention

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October 31, 2018 As Ghana gets ready to set standards for child nutrition, U of T researcher shares his science on brain health

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July 25, 2018 U of T expert in children’s pain wins million-dollar CIHR grant for work reducing fear of needles in youth

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July 12, 2018 U of T researcher plugs data gaps on food and global child health

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July 10, 2018 'The solutions aren’t complicated': U of T expert on Canada's failing grade in children's physical activity

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December 15, 2017 No more tears: Publicly funded research by U of T's Anna Taddio is taking the pain out of vaccinations in Canada and around the world

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September 21, 2017 India has avoided one million child deaths since 2005, new U of T study concludes