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Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) is a research initiative to develop and test interventions to prevent obesity in children and promote child development. There are four separate but harmonized projects in CA, CN, IN and SA.
Join us HeLTI ECR Seminar on Tue Dec 1 at 9:00 EST. Dr. Melissa R. Hunte will talk about "Multisite Harmonization of Early Child Development Measures: A Developmental Evaluation of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)." #UofT, #UBC, #ECR, #HeLTI
helti-hub.tghn.org/helti-webina...
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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TODAY!! Don't forget to join!
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Congrats to Dr. Ravi Retnakaran & team #LTRI on receiving $2M from @CIHR_IRSC to advance a global study to prevent chronic disease in women & their children.

👉https://www.sinaihealth.ca/news/ltri-researchers-secure-2m-grant-to-advance-global-study-on-cardiometabolic-health-in-women-and-children
June 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Keith Jarvi and his team at Sinai Health on receiving a $3.3M @GenomeCanada Grant! Their work will advance a unique semen biomarker test to help transform prostate cancer diagnosis.

Read more: www.sinaihealth.ca/news/sinai-h...
August 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Congratulations to Sinai Health researchers Drs. Jim Woodgett, Rayjean Hung and Prakesh Shah on being named Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences!

Learn how their leadership is advancing health sciences in Canada: www.sinaihealth.ca/news/sinai-h...
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The latest HeLTI Research Consortium Bukhali trial process evaluation paper is finally published!
"Young women's health behaviours in context: a qualitative longitudinal study in the Bukhali trial" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Young women's health behaviours in context: a qualitative longitudinal study in the Bukhali trial
The Bukhali trial is being implemented with young women (18–28 years) in Soweto, South Africa. A qualitative longitudinal study was conducted to explo…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Happy Father’s Day! 👨‍👧‍👦
Today, we celebrate the fathers & father figures who support & inspire the next generation.
Pleased to share our publication showing that prenatal fathers' health matters for their child’s health and supports more inclusive prevention strategies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
LTRI researchers secure $2M grant for global cardiometabolic study. Read more: www.sinaihealth.ca/news/ltri-re...
June 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Drs. Stephen Lye and Rayjean Hung, co-leads of the South Africa study, along with Dr. Stephen Matthews, co-lead of the India study—all Senior Investigators at LTRI—were recently featured in the Sinai Health newsletter! Click the link to read more: www.sinaihealth.ca/news/improvi...
June 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CIHR recently featured HeLTI’s efforts and activities in a recent article. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54330.html
#CIHR #WHO #HeLTI
June 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Huge congratulations to Dr. Catherine Birken, HeLTI Canada Principal Investigator, on the exciting publication of Managing Obesity in Children: A Clinical Practice Guideline! What an incredible achievement! 🎉
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Managing obesity in children: a clinical practice guideline
Background: Obesity is a complex, chronic, stigmatized disease whereby abnormal or excess body fat may impair health or increase the risk of medical complications, and can reduce quality of life and s...
www.cmaj.ca
June 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Developmental and Perinatal Biology Exchange Program 2025 - Exchange between U of T and Karolinska-Institutet. Click the link below to find more details: physiology.utoronto.ca/news/apply-t...
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Apply Today for the International Exchange Workshop in Developmental and Perinatal Biology
physiology.utoronto.ca
April 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Join a seminar on: Preventing disordered eating and eating disorders through public health policy
Presenter: Amanda Raffoul, PhD
When: Thursday March 20 at 08:00 EDT (12:00 GMT; 14:00 SAST; 17:30 IST; 20:00 CST)

See the HeLTI website for more details:
helti-hub.tghn.org/helti-webina...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Delighted to share that our HeLTI consortium harmonization paper has been published! Click the link below to find more about the paper:

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/3...
Prospective harmonisation of four international randomised controlled trials in Canada, China, India and South Africa: the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative
Objectives The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) is an international multistudy consortium that supports the development and integration of four randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducte...
bmjopen.bmj.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM