Martin Guhn
Contact via University of British Columbia
Key Research Areas
- Population Health
- Children
- Children
- Education
- Education
- SOCIETAL & CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT
- determinants of health
- environmental health
- DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
- Exposome
- family context
- Psychology
- Psychology
- FOCUS GROUPS
- early child development
- EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
- CHILD HEALTH
- WELLBEING
- early childhood experiences
- Youth Health-Environmental, Developmental and Social Factors
- community context
- ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
- RESILIENCE
- school context
- Educational Psychology
- Educational Psychology
- SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
- SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- developmental outcomes
- GREEN SPACES
- Health Determinants-Environmental Determinants of Health
- Health Determinants-Epidemiology
- HEALTH DISORDERS
- health equity
- HEALTH INEQUALITIES
- IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE
- immigrant and refugee children
- immigrant children
- immigrant families
- immigrants
- Immigration
- Immigration
- INEQUALITIES
- INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- intersectoral community partnerships
- kindergarten to grade
- LANGUAGE
- LEARNING
- Life Span Development
- Life Span Development
- Literacy
- Literacy
- LIVING CONDITIONS
- LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSES
- LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
- long-term academic trajectories
- machine learning
- Mental Health
- Mental Health
- METABOLOMICS
- Middle childhood
- migration
- motivation
- music learning
- NOISE
- OCAP
- Other Education
- outdoor play
- PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
- PERINATAL DEPRESSION
- PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY
- photo voices
- POLICY
- Population and Health-Health Equity
- Population and Health-Psychosocial, Sociocultural and Behavioral Determinants of Health
- population-based approaches
- population-based linked sample
- population-based multi-cohort sample
- POPULATION DATABASE
- POPULATION HEALTH
- population-level monitoring
- POPULATION STUDY
- PREVALENCE
- PSYCHO-SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL RESEARCH
- PSYCHOSOCIAL/HEALTH BEHAVIOURAL RES.
- PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG USE IN PREGNANCY
- QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
- refugee children
- refugee families
- Reproduction and Development-Fertility and Maternal Health
- school effects
- school policies
- SCHOOL READINESS
- services
- SOCIAL CONTEXT
- social-emotional adjustment and wellbeing
- SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL HEALTH
- social-emotional wellbeing
- SOCIAL INTEGRATION
- Social Work
- Social Work
- societal resilience
- SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH
- socio-emotional development
- STATISTICAL MODELING
- student intake
- Syrian child refugees
- URBANIZATION
- VICTIMIZATION
- WELL-BEING
- youth refugees
- academic self-concept
- academic trajectories
- AIR POLLUTION
- Arts and culture
- AUSTRALIA
- bullying
- Canada
- CAUSAL INFERENCE
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
- children and youth
- Children, Family
- Children, Family
- children's wellbeing
- children's well-being
- COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
- creative economy
- DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGIN OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
- DIGITAL MEDIA
- Early Childhood Education
- EARLY DEVELOPMENT
- early development instrument
- educational stratification
- education quality and assessment office
- elementary school
- EPIGENETICS
- EPIGENOMICS
- GENDER AND HEALTH
Associated Researchers
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Janus, Magdalena
McMaster University -
Hertzman, Clyde
Not Applicable -
Duku, Eric K
McMaster University -
Gadermann, Anne M
University of British Columbia -
Forer, Barry
University of British Columbia -
Gadermann, Anne
University of British Columbia -
Georgiades, Katholiki
McMaster University -
Chen, Alice W
Simon Fraser University -
George, Anne M
University of British Columbia -
Lloyd, Jennifer E
University of British Columbia -
Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A
University of British Columbia -
Brownell, Marni D
University of Manitoba -
Gagne, Monique H
University of British Columbia -
Oberle, Eva
University of British Columbia -
Shoveller, Jean A
University of British Columbia -
Thomson, Kimberly
University of British Columbia -
Muhajarine, Nazeem
University of Saskatchewan -
Goble, J. Scott
University of British Columbia -
Gouzouasis, Peter J
University of British Columbia -
Irwin, Rita L
University of British Columbia -
O'Neill, Susan A
Simon Fraser University -
Oberlander, Timothy F
University of British Columbia -
Anne M. Gadermann
University of British Columbia -
Barry Forer
University of British Columbia -
Eric K. Duku
McMaster University -
Katholiki Georgiades
McMaster University -
Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl
University of British Columbia -
Magdalena Janus
McMaster University -
Coplan, Robert J
Carleton University -
Haldane, Liza B
Lisims Early Learning Partnership -
Hertzman, Clyde
University of British Columbia -
Hymel, Shelley
University of British Columbia -
Kristjansson, Elizabeth A
University of Ottawa -
Maggi, Stefania
Carleton University -
Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly
University of British Columbia -
Brauer, Michael
University of British Columbia -
Davies, Hugh W
University of British Columbia -
Georgiades, Katholiki K
McMaster University -
Jerrett, Michael L
University of California -
Puyat, Joseph H
University of British Columbia -
Richardson, Chris G
University of British Columbia -
Sbihi, Hind
University of British Columbia -
Sbihi, Hind
Government of British Columbia -
Su, Jason
University of California -
Ungar, Michael
Dalhousie University -
van den Bosch, Matilda
University of British Columbia -
Campbell, Trevor
University of British Columbia -
Huan, Tao
University of British Columbia -
Bennett, Teresa A
McMaster University -
Birken, Catherine S
Hospital for Sick Children -
Coplan, Robert
Carleton University -
Ferro, Mark
University of Waterloo -
Georgiades, Stelios
McMaster University -
Gorter, Jan Willem
McMaster University -
Maguire, Jonathon L
St. Michael's Hospital -
Pei, Jacqueline
University of Alberta -
Santos, Robert G
Government of Manitoba -
Almas, Alisa N
University of British Columbia -
Brussoni, Mariana
University of British Columbia -
Abdolmohammad Kazemipur
University of Lethbridge -
Atallah, Nabiha L
Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia -
Boyd, Monica
University of Toronto -
Brigham, Susan M
Mount Saint Vincent University -
Bryan, Catherine A
Dalhousie University -
Chen, Xi
University of Toronto -
Clément, Dominique T
University of Alberta -
Garcea, Joseph
University of Saskatchewan -
Gerry Mills
Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia -
Geva, Esther
University of Toronto -
Goldring, Luin
York University -
Gottardo, Alexandra
Wilfrid Laurier University -
Howard Ramos
Dalhousie University -
Ives, Nicole G
McGill University -
Jenkins, Jennifer M
University of Toronto -
Jennifer M. Jenkins
University of Toronto -
Johanne C. Paradis
University of Alberta -
Katie E. Rosenberger
Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of British Columbia -
Kazemipur, Abdolmohammad
University of Lethbridge -
Kim, Ann H
York University -
Labman, Shauna E
University of Manitoba -
Liboy, Malanga-Georges
Université Sainte-Anne -
Lisa Rochman
NorQuest College -
Lori A. Wilkinson
University of Manitoba -
MacLeod, Andrea
University of Montreal -
Mandrona, April R
NSCAD University -
Mbakogu, Ifeyinwa A
Dalhousie University -
McGrath, Patrick J
IWK Health Centre -
Mills, Gerry
Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia -
Mueller, Richard E
University of Lethbridge -
Nakhaie, Mahmoud R
University of Windsor -
Paradis, Johanne C
University of Alberta -
Patrick J. McGrath
IWK Health Centre -
Ramos, Howard
Dalhousie University -
Rochman, Lisa
NorQuest College -
Rosenberger, Katie E
Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of British Columbia -
Shakya, Yogendra B
Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre -
Silvius, Ray
University of Winnipeg -
Soehl, Thomas G
McGill University -
Wilkinson, Lori A
University of Manitoba -
Winter, Elke
University of Ottawa -
Xi Chen
University of Toronto -
Yogendra B. Shakya
Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre -
Yoko Yoshida
Dalhousie University -
Yoshida, Yoko
Dalhousie University -
Edwards, Ben
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY -
Gagne, Monique
University of British Columbia -
Hanley, Gillian E
University of British Columbia -
Poon, Brenda T
University of British Columbia -
Vigod, Simone N
Women's College Hospital -
Davies, Scott
University of Toronto -
Dunn, James R
McMaster University -
McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D
Mount Saint Vincent University -
McNelles, Laurie R
Education Quality and Accountability Office -
DeLongis, Anita
University of British Columbia -
Henderson, Sarah
B.C. Centre for Disease Control -
Kobor, Michael S
University of British Columbia -
McGrail, Kimberlyn M
University of British Columbia -
Turvey, Stuart E
University of British Columbia -
Van Jaarsveld, Danielle
Not Applicable
Associated Organizations
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Lisims Early Learning Partnership
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University of British Columbia
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Azienda unita' sanitaria locale di Cesena
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Comox Valley Child Development Association
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Family Action Network
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Kamloops Make Children First Learning Initiative
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Richmond Children First
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McMaster University
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Agenzia sanitaria e sociale regionale
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Azienda unita sanitaria locale di Bologna
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Carleton University
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United Way
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Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre
Recent Research Projects
Born to be Wise: Impact of Modifiable Early-life Environmental Exposures on the Health and Development of Children
2018/19-2020/21 • $351,901 • PI,CO
One of four Canadian children suffer deficiencies in early development and the difference between various socioeconomic groups is large. While the impact of environmental exposures on children's health is known to be large, the influence on early development is poorly understood. Equally, the...
Mental health trajectories of immigrant and refugee children from early childhood to adolescence: An ecological population- based approach
2018/19-2020/21 • $218,026 • PI,CO
Canada's immigrant and refugee population is growing rapidly, representing approximately 20% of the Canadian population. Despite the demographic significance, there is limited representative information on the mental health of this population. One significant challenge for the field concerns the...
A population-level linked data study of the long-term developmental impacts of prenatal antidepressant exposure
2020/21 • $89,888 • PI,CO
Each year, approximately 13% of North American women experience depression and/or anxiety during pregnancy and a third are treated with an antidepressant that alters levels of serotonin, a key neurotransmitter during fetal brain development. We know that these antidepressant cross the placenta...
Child and youth refugee research coalition (CYRRC): using research to inform best practices for language, literacy, learning, social integration, and child and family wellbeing
2016/17-2019/20 • $1,500,000 • CO
The arrival of well over 25,000 Syrians since November, 2015 reveals there is a pressing need for a national, intersectoral, multidisciplinary team to respond in a nimble and time-sensitive way to factors that threaten young people's integration while building the protective and promotive...
Building community partnerships to foster the wellbeing of young children and families
2017/18-2019/20 • $199,828 • PI,CO
Context: Early childhood is a critical period for development. Experiences during these years set the foundations for life-long learning, social relationships, and wellbeing as they shape a range of vital functions, including the developing brain and attachment system. Despite the known...
Understanding the K-12 academic achievement trajectories of immigrant and refugee children
2016/17-2019/20 • $149,525 • PI,CO
Objective: The objectives of the proposed research are (1) to identify the range of academic achievement trajectories (K-12) young immigrants and refugees experience and (2) to examine how migration factors (e.g., country of origin; refugee status) interact with the social, socioeconomic, and...
Metabolomics-Guided Social Exposome Study to Identify Critical environmental Exposures for Child Health and Development in Canada
2019/20 • $125,000 • PI,CO
No summary
Identifying risk and protective factors for the social-emotional development of immigrant and refugee children
2017/18-2019/20 • $97,163 • PI,CO
Background: Canada's immigrant and refugee population is growing rapidly, representing approximately 20% of the Canadian population. Immigrant and refugee children face significant and unique challenges that can jeopardize their positive social-emotional adjustment and wellbeing in Canadian...
Student Achievement Trajectories in Ontario: Capacities, Contexts, and Causes
2019/20 • $74,820 • PI,CO
No summary
How do changes in victimization and social relationships predict students' wellbeing and academic outcomes?
2018/19-2019/20 • $73,664 • PI,CO
No summary
Understanding the developmental well-being of refugee children in Canada and Australia
2019/20 • $34,411 • PI,CO
No summary
Partnering to action Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP) for community-based early childhood research in Nisga'a
2019/20 • $24,924 • PI,CO
No summary
The Social Exposome in Child Health and Development: Building Partnerships and Collaborations to Reduce Inequalities in Canada
2019/20 • $10,000 • PI,CO,Other
Despite being the 5th most prosperous country in the world, when compared to other developed countries, Canada's rankings are alarmingly low on key measures of children's health and safety, as well as child poverty (17% of all children). These conditions have resulted in large and growing...
Prevalence and social determinants of developmental outcomes among 5-year-old children with health disorders: A Pan-Canadian study
2015/16-2018/19 • $378,411 • PI,CO
A health disorder early in life has tremendous impact on a child's developmental health trajectory. Among healthy children, approximately one in five kindergartners (20%) lacks the developmental skills to take advantage of school-based education. Among children with identified special health...
Get outside and play! Investigating outdoor play and children's positive development in schools and communities
2018/19 • $21,619 • PI,CO
Children instinctively are drawn to play (Gray, 2011). Over the course of history, most of this play has happened outdoors, self-motivated, spontaneously, and together with other children. Outdoor play, such as jumping in a pile of leaves and climbing trees, is believed to have a wide range of...
Examining the Social Determinants of Children's Developmental Health with a Population-Level, Pan-Canadian Database
2012/13-2015/16 • $675,594 • PI,CO
The proposed research project presents unprecedented opportunities to examine social determinants of children's developmental health at a Pan-Canadian population-level. We will examine neighborhood-level associations between children's developmental health and associated socioeconomic and...
What matters most: the effects of music making on adolescents in the 21st century
2013/14-2015/16 • $223,075 • PI,CO
Problem: Engagement with music is lifelong. Today's adolescents listen to, download, manipulate, play with, and create music in many ways. They "make" music. The purpose of the study is to investigate the critical roles that music making has on general academic achievement, socio-emotional...
Social-Emotional Health Trajectories from School Entry to Adolescence: A Population-Level Analysis
2014/15-2015/16 • $105,000 • Scholarship/Fellowship,Other
Population health research has consistently shown that social and economic factors such as wealth, social status, and education play a significant role in determining life course health outcomes and that these factors have the greatest impact early in life. One existing method of altering these...
Educational, health and well-being outcomes of children born to immigrant and refugee families in British Columbia
2010/11-2013/14 • $354,027 • PI,CO
Canada as a whole, and BC in particular (e.g., BC Settlement & Adaptation Program), has been working hard to create settlement services for immigrant and refugee families in communities and in the schools with the aim of assisting these families in the process of integration into Canadian...
The KidsInPlaces initiative an international partnership for the study of societal resilience and early child development
2011/12-2013/14 • $196,610 • PI,CO
The KidsInPlaces Initiative (KIPI) is an international and inter-sectoral partnership between Italy and Canada established to study societal resilience and early childhood development. With the global economic hardship and uncertainty protracting longer than previously forecasted, whole...