Doctors, geneticists, teachers or social workers? Why not all of them? That's the premise behind a new research institute at the University of Toronto that will be delving into the potential — and the pitfalls — of early childhood health and well-being. The Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development, named for the late advocate of early childhood development, pulls together researchers from a wide range of fields under a virtual umbrella to tackle a wide range of issues.
They'll team up on research and teaching that focuses on the first 2, days of a child's life — from conception to age five — in the hopes of pinpointing ways to set children on positive life trajectories. Executive director Stephen Lye, who is also a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto and a neo-natal expert, says the multidisciplinary institute will better reflect how a child actually develops — his or her health, education and socialization are unfolding constantly and simultaneously.
Topics will include everything from childhood obesity to global questions such as how to integrate child soldiers back into their societies. We spoke to Lye and the institute's academic director, geneticist Marla Sokolowski. Lye: If you think about it, the miracle that has to occur from the time in which the egg is fertilized, when you have one single cell, to the time when 2, days later, you've got a healthy, jumping, happy, enthusiastic, inquisitive individual going off to school, and you think of the biology that has to happen during that period — to me, that's nothing short of a miracle.
Those are the two forces in science that were pulling this research area, in a way, apart. Depending on your genetic makeup, you're going to be more or less prone to be affected by that environment.
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