Grant: Applied Public Health Chair - LOI

This is a mixed-methods program of intervention research, mentorship and knowledge translation for child health in the north. In response to current concerns of northern people, including the collaborators on this proposal, we focus the work on nutritional interventions for child overall health and for child oral health more specifically. These areas of focus emerged as priorities in an environmental scan and stakeholder discussions undertaken while preparing this LOI. Most notably, we will examine a long running, pan-territorial nutritional intervention called "Drop the Pop" and compare health and dental outcomes across intervention (n=84) and non-intervention (n=36) schools using data from the 2009-10 and 2013-14 health behaviour in school-aged children census of the north. We will also undertake key informant interviews, youth and family-centered focus groups and Photovoice activities to study implementation experiences and the overall landscape and future of northern child health nutritional intervention.