We convened a two-day scientific meeting to establish a streamlined “collaborator pipeline” for pregnancy cohorts. The objective was to develop a process that integrated external collaborators in ways that enhanced long-term cohort sustainability, while addressing critical considerations such as data governance, ethics, authorship, and resource sharing.
Day 1 (HYBRID) focused on the cohort perspective, using APrON as a case study, and included presentations, discussions of existing data infrastructure, and a panel with APrON participants.
Day 2 (VIRTUAL) synthesized insights from collaborator and cohort perspectives to design a proposed framework for collaborator onboarding and research partnership development.
The meeting engaged a transdisciplinary group of researchers, trainees, clinicians, policymakers, 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.
