We are convening a two-day scientific meeting to establish a streamlined “collaborator pipeline” for pregnancy cohorts. The objective is to develop a process that integrates external collaborators in ways that enhance long-term cohort sustainability, while addressing critical considerations such as data governance, ethics, authorship, and resource sharing.
Day 1 (HYBRID) will focus on the cohort perspective, using APrON as a case study, and will include presentations, discussions of existing data infrastructure, and a panel with APrON participants.
Day 2 (VIRTUAL) will synthesize insights from collaborator and cohort perspectives to design a proposed framework for collaborator onboarding and research partnership development.
The meeting will engage a transdisciplinary group of researchers, trainees, clinicians, policy makers, and families affiliated with APrON, One Child Every Child, and partner organizations across Canada and internationally, with the aim of advancing rigorous, sustainable, and collaborative Better Beginnings research.
For questions or other inquiries, please contact Kharah Ross at kharahr@athabascau.ca and or apron@ucalgary.ca.
