Leong Centre Rounds with CHES: CanCHECKids – October 19, 2026

Title: CanCHECKids: A novel application of the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts to examine inequity in child and youth active transportation injuries This webinar shares findings from two recent publications: one prospective cohort focused on individual/household determinants and a second nested case-control study focused on area-level indicators. It also examines the differences between the individual and area-level results and the implications of these findings for injury prevention. Speakers: Linda Rothman is an Associate Professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at the Toronto Metropolitan University and an Assistant Professor (status only) at Dalla Lana, School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is an injury prevention epidemiologist whose current area of focus is in child vulnerable road user injuries in urban environments as a public health issue. Dr Rothman’s research involves multi-disciplinary collaborators from academia, hospitals, not-for-profit organizations, the private sector, school boards, and all levels of the government. M. Anne Harris is an epidemiologist focused on studies of transportation, work, environments, and cities’ health. She holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health and is an Associate Professor at the School of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is an expert in the use of secondary and linked data to examine a range of health outcomes. She has conducted multiple studies using CanCHEC data, and with health data from Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI), including the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) to study ED visits and Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) to study hospitalizations for transportation injuries.