SCORE! endeavours to discover effective strategies that can enable newcomer families in Canada to optimize the health trajectories of their children. This includes all aspects of Healthy Active Living to prevent early onset chronic disease risk factors, such as being overweight and having type 2 diabetes, while promoting optimal mental health and well-being, community integration and success at school.

This study will derive normative ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) data in South Asian children and will determine how diet, physical activity, sleep and screen time affect ambulatory blood pressure among South Asian children between five to 17 years living in Ontario and British Columbia. These findings will facilitate more accurate hypertension evaluation and improve the cardiometabolic health of South Asians throughout childhood and into adulthood.

This study aims to understand:

1. The immune response to the COVID-19 vaccine and its safety in South Asians
2. Why some people may be less confident in getting the vaccine
3. The overall impact of COVID-19 in this community

The study will provide insight into how a pandemic of this scale can be prevented in the community and vulnerable populations.

This study aims to understand:

1. The immune response to the COVID-19 vaccine and its safety in First Nations
2. Why some people may be less confident in getting the vaccine
3. The overall impact of COVID-19 in this community

The study will provide insight into how a pandemic of this scale can be prevented in the community and vulnerable populations.

This study will assess whether a culturally tailored, personalized nutrition intervention delivered by a trained health coach to pregnant South Asian women.

This study aims to:

1. Improve blood sugar levels to a greater extent than usual dietary advice
2. Reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus to a greater extent than usual dietary advice

In the Indigenous Birth Cohort (iABC) study, our primary goal is to determine the causes of fat gain among Indigenous newborns and the growing offspring during the first three years of life. We compare the percent body fat of the Indigenous babies to that of caucasian babies and South Asian babies. We also engage pregnant women, new mothers, their healthcare providers and grandmothers of the Six Nations community to learn about the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards the health of pregnant mothers and the care of newborns.

CAHHM is a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the impact of community level factors, individual health behaviours and access to health services, on cognitive function, subclinical vascular disease, fat distribution and the development of chronic diseases among adults living in Canada.

The objective of the START study was to better understand why South Asian people (originating from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) have an increased risk for developing diabetes and heart disease.

In this study, we studied the genetic (related to heredity) and environmental (related to the place one lives in) risk factors of obesity, diabetes and heart disease among South Asian people.